Human beings (via undocumented immigrants) are being trampled on within the Heartland of America.

Where is the National Right to Life’s HARSH STATEMENT against Gov. Dave Heineman and the Nebraska Senators who voted against prenatal care bill LB 599?  This is the time to step in and advocate for undocumented women who need prenatal care.

Gov. Dave Heineman vows to VETO prenatal care bill, LB-599 (a bill that offers prenatal care to undocumented women), and the below Nebraska senators voted against offering prenatal care to the undocumented women:

Senators Bloomfield, Hansen, Langemeier, Pirsch, Brasch, Heidemann, Lautenbaugh, Price, Fischer, Janssen, McCoy, Schilz, Fulton, Lambert, Nelson, and Smith.

We would like to see a statement from the Nebraska Right to Life and the the National Right to Life stating their role in support of LIFE and undocumented human beings via prenatal care and harsh words against the Nebraska Governor.   We saw them issue a statement that abandoned Sen. Ben Nelson and it is time for us to see them abandon Gov. Dave Heineman, too.

Nebraska Right to Life OKs Dave Heineman, abandons Ben Nelson

We believe Heineman is receiving pressure from the John Tanton Network.  John Tanton is a man who was behind the Michigan Abortion Clinic and he is an anti-immigrant crusader who helped hijack the Republican Party.

In the memos, Tanton, sounding much like the Klan of the 1920s, expressed concerns over the role of the Catholic Church in the United States, a favorite topic of his. He worried that the Church would capitalize on the Catholic faith of Latino immigrants to exert more political influence in the U.S. Specifically, he thought the church would try to subvert the division between church and state and limit abortion and birth control.

If the National Right to Life does not abandon Heineman the same way they abandoned Ben Nelson, their silence and lack of leadership will speak volumes. We are witnessing the fabric of the GOP become unraveled.  We are seeing a man via Mitt Romney who promised to protect a woman’s right to choose head towards being the GOP nominee.  We are witnessing the pro life movement die before our very eyes if Mitt Romney becomes the GOP primary winner due to his oath on a woman’s right to choose.

SOMOS REPUBLICANS believe without strong conviction for LIFE, there is no power.

You Can’t Be Pro-Life and Anti-Immigrant

Right to Life Organization supported politicians like Gov. Heineman do not seem to believe all babies are created equal in order to receive prenatal care.

It is interesting to several of us how Republicans are for Mitt Romney — the same Republicans who loathe ObamaCare.  How can Republicans claim to be against “socialized medicine” when they are voting for RomneyCare?  Hypocrisy at it’s best.  See below story by Jonathan Chait.

How Romney Advocated Obamacare and Lied About It

• By Jonathan Chait

Pay no attention to the plan behind the curtain!

Somos Republicans (based in Arizona) became the largest Hispanic Republican Grassroots organization  in the country due to immigration advocacy and putting People before Party.  It is also led by Latino  leadership.  Somos endorsed Newt Gingrich, but if Newt doesn’t become the GOP Primary winner in 2012 — then they are instructing their members to write in Ronald Reagan.

From NBC Latino:

A key factor in Tuesday’s primary and the larger Latino Republican landscape in Arizona is Somos Republicans.  They were founded in 2009 in Arizona and have grown to over 6000 members with a concentration in the Southwest.  Their main engine of growth came in the aftermath of the signing into law of Arizona S.B.1070.  Somos Republicans opposed S.B. 1070 and continues to take a firm stance in opposition to anti-immigrant rhetoric and policy within the Republican Party.  Their mission is to support humane immigration reform that conforms to a market economy, in other words, not the recent crop of anti-immigrant measures.

Somos Republicans continue to believe in general Republican principals but reject the anti-immigrant platform that has come to be identified with the Republican Party. In an effort to best balance these views, Somos Republicans have put forward a two-pronged strategy this primary season.  First, endorsing Newt Gingrich, the candidate they perceive as having the least anti-immigrant platform.  And second, actively campaign against Mitt Romney, the candidate they view as having the most anti-immigrant platform.  In fact, their rejection of Romney is so strong that Somos Republicans have instructed their membership to write in Ronald Reagan for President if Romney wins the GOP nomination.

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Read full story here.

Somos Republicans is headquartered and was founded in Arizona (immigration ground zero), and is the largest grassroots Latino Repubilcan organization in the nation.  It was the only Republican group in the nation that stood up against SB 1070 when Gov. Brewer signed that bill and this is why and how SOMOS grew so fast and large.

We have learned that Rick Santorum is schmoozing up to Joe Arpaio and in fact met with him today.  Mitt Romney also made this mistake when he schmoosed up to Arpaio in 2008 when he ran against Sen. John McCain and look where that ended for Romney.

For Immediate Release

22 February 2012

Largest Latino Republican Group Blasts Rick Santorum

Phoenix, AZ —  Recently 2012 Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney stated he will veto the DREAM Act, therefore, SOMOS REPUBLICANS (largest Hispanic Republicans grassroots organization) will veto Romney at the polls for receiving a “nativist and extremist” Republican endorsement via Kris Kobach of Kansas.  Now it appears Rick Santorum met with another nativist and extremist Republican today via Sheriff Joe Arpaio.  Santorum will be the fourth 2012 GOP presidential candidate to talk or meet with Arpaio — and the other three are not even in the race anymore.

We are warning the 2012 Republican Candidates that extremism and nativism does not pay and this should be indicative when Mitt Romney received Joe Arpaio’s endorsement in 2008 and lost against Senator John McCain during the 2008 Presidential primaries.

Joe Arpaio has a strong challenger in 2012 via Lt. Mike Stauffer whom we predict will beat nativist Arpaio due to Arpaio wasting millions of dollars in tax payer monies.

According to the New York Times:

“The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, known for efforts against illegal immigrants, inappropriately spent $99 million from two jail funds over the past eight years to pay for other law enforcement operations, including immigration patrols, county budget officials said.”

According to the New York Times:

“Sheriff Arpaio….. his department’s approach to more than 400 sex-crimes cases that has Sheriff Arpaio in trouble.   His deputies failed to investigate or conducted only the sketchiest of inquiries into hundreds of sex crimes between 2005 and 2007, investigations by Arizona law enforcement agencies have shown. Many of those cases involved molested children.”

According to Latino FOX News:

“The office of controversial Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio….. has committed a wide range of civil rights violations against Latinos, according to a report by the U.S. Department of Justice.  The report, which includes findings from a three-year investigation by the federal agency, says the Arizona sheriff’s office engaged in a pattern of racial profiling and discrimination, and carried out heavy-handed immigration patrols based on racially charged citizen complaints.”

Finally, we are absolutely horrified with the way Arpaio’s officer treated a fellow Latino Veteran and United States Citizens in his prison.  Video shows Joe Arpaio’s Officer used taser on our fellow Latino veteran who ultimately died later.

Somos Republicans is the largest Hispanic Republican Group in the Nation that grew exponentially due to our pro legal immigration views.  Somos Republicans is also headquartered out of Arizona — Immigration Ground Zero.  The largest Spanish media outlet — UNIVISION has a story on Latino members who are not in support of Mitt Romney due to his harsh anti-immigrant views and alignment with white nationalists via John Tanton’s network and FAIR when Romeny decided to seek Kris Kobach’s advice.  Mitt Romney also has Pete Wilson’s (extremist) endorsement.

From UNIVISION:

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Romney’s immigration stance puts off some Latino Mormons

Latinos make up only a small portion of Mormons in the U.S., but they’ve split with many of their co-religionists over Mitt Romney’s immigration stance. (Flickr: More Good Foundation).

By MATTHEW JAFFE
Channel: Politics

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And the country’s largest Latino Republican group – Somos Republicans – said they would oppose Romney due to his immigration policies, deciding to back rival Newt Gingrich instead. What makes the opposition to Romney of some Latino Mormons different is that their disapproval of his immigration stance stems not from business or professional reasons, but rather from religious ones.

According to the Associated Press’ Russell Contreras, some Latino Mormons such as Honduran-born Antonella Cecilia Packard believe Romney has betrayed a basic Mormon belief of protecting immigrants.

“A lot of us aren’t supporting him because of his stance against immigrants,” she told Contreras.

Latino Mormons, the AP story noted, cite immigration stories in the Book of Mormon and some recent statements by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints against various policies that target immigrants. In addition, per the AP, they see Romney as a hypocrite because his own great-grandfather Miles fled to Mexico after an anti-polygamist law was passed in 1882.

Read entire story here.

Mitt Romney is intentionally destroying his chances of winning Latino voters as he continues to align himself with not only Kris Kobach of FAIR, but now Pete Wilson. Kobach and Wilson are backed by White Nationlists and their ilk.  Romney is a dirty charlatan of a politician as he puts himself in a position to fault all minorities (including President Obama) on the economy.  White nationalists and anti-immigrant crusaders such as Kris Kobach and Pete Wilson fault immigrants falsely and ignore immigrant economic contributions.  We know where Romney is going.  He is a dangerous and divisive man taking the GOP back to a pre Civil Rights Act era.

From News Taco

Somos Republicans, the largest Hispanic Republican grassroots and immigrant friendly organization in the nation is issuing an action alert.  SOMOS is based in Arizona — immigration ground zero and has been fighting protectionist laws against immigrants since Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed SB 1070.

Arizona-based Latino group issuing the below action alert for members:

Call Gov. Brian Sandoval and support most immigrant friendly 2012 GOP Candidate for Republican Primary Elections — Newt Gingrich

Action Alert:  Call Brian Sandoval and tell him to come back to the
conservative Reaganite tent. Tell him that there is no window for Latino
immigrants to become documented, however this country, democrats and
republicans opended wihdows and doors for them to come and work, without
creating a dignified status for them.In the spirit of Reagan, and of the
president that nominated him for the bench, George Bush, we call on him
to support Newt Gingrich for president.

In the spirit of Reagan, and of the president that nominated him for the
bench, we call on him to support immigration reform.Brian Sandoval is
the governor of Nevada, and as Mexican American. We are proud to see and
prove to the rest of America what we are capable of. However, it is
painful to see that he has turned his back to the suffering and the
realities of the people he should understand the most, and who share his
heritage. Gov. Sandoval supported the anti-immigrant Arizona law, which
in addition to marginalize undocumented immigrants, it also makes the
lives of Latinos be considered at the margins of America, curtailing
their opportunities to fulfill their potential.  In sum, Gov. Sandoval
supported a law that makes us second class citizens.  We call on Gov.
Sandoval to come back to the Mexican American and mainstream Latino
tent: we welcome him with open arms to help America understand that as
the largest minority, we are the pillars on which the future of this
country will be built, and if our children don’t have the right
opportunities, those pillars will not be strong enough.  America will be
strong if Latinos are strong.

Call Brian Sandoval at  the State Capitol: Phone: (775) 684-5670

or e-mail him through the governor’s website at:
http://gov.nv.gov/contact/governor/

From

From The Immigration Policy Center (IPC):

For Immediate Release

The Real Meaning of “Self-Deportation”

January 26, 2012

Washington D.C. – The term “self-deportation” has found its way into the GOP presidential primary race, with candidate Mitt Romney outlining a vague immigration platform which includes “self-deportation,” or the idea that unauthorized immigrants will voluntarily choose to leave the U.S. if life here is made unbearable enough. While “self-deportation” may be a new idea to some, those who monitor immigration policy understand that it is code for “attrition through enforcement” – a plan pursued by extremist immigration-control organizations in Congress and state houses across the nation.

Mr. Romney explains how he thinks “self-deportation” would work by saying “if people don’t get work here, they’re going to self-deport to a place they can get work.”  However, as described in a forthcoming report from the Immigration Policy Center, “self-deportation” – or, more accurately, “attrition through enforcement” – goes far beyond denying unauthorized immigrants work. The strategy is currently embodied in state laws that include provisions denying education, transportation, and even basic services like water and housing to anyone who cannot prove legal immigration status. So far, the states that have attempted to roll out this plan have done little more than undermine basic human rights, devastate local economies, and place unnecessary burdens on U.S. citizens and lawful immigrants.

There is little evidence that “attrition through enforcement” is causing unauthorized immigrants to leave. In fact, a July 2011 study from the RAND Corporation found that, despite improved economic conditions in Mexico and worsened conditions in the United States, fewer Mexican immigrants returned to Mexico in 2008 and 2009 than in the two years before the recession.

The Urban Institute’s Juan Pedrozo has also pointed out that “it’s tough to tell whether (and how many) immigrants have left a community if you are looking right after a state passes a law. It can take years of evidence to test claims of a mass exodus.” Moreover, “growing evidence suggests that most immigrants (especially families with school-age children) are here to stay, except perhaps where local economies are particularly weak.”

Furthermore, according to the Pew Hispanic Center, “nearly two-thirds of the 10.2 million unauthorized adult immigrants in the United States have lived in this country for at least 10 years, and nearly half are parents of minor children,” most of whom are U.S. citizens. There is no reason to believe that they are going to “self-deport” as their ties to the country have grown much deeper.

Whether you call it “self-deportation” or “attrition through enforcement,” this is a policy that offers no genuine solution to the growing instability of our immigration system. Relying on a strategy conceived by immigration restrictionists and pursued by opportunistic politicians is no game plan. This country deserves to hear more detailed and thoughtful approaches from politicians and policy makers—ones that will offer a way forward, rather than ones grounded in divisive and punitive approaches to unauthorized immigration.

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For more information, contact Wendy Sefsaf at wsefsaf@immcouncil.org or 202-507-7524.

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From SOMOS REPUBLICANS, an Arizona-based Hispanic Republican Group and is the largest Latino Republican group released below official statement. Somos Republicans grew exponentially due to it’s strong immigration advocacy.  Arizona is immigration ground zero.

Immediate Release – 25 January 2012

Contact:

Hispanic Republicans:  You may as well support ObamaCare if you are going to support RomneyCare

Phoenix, AZ –  The largest Hispanic Republican group in the nation, SOMOS REPUBLICANS, cannot support RomneyCare.  Supporting RomneyCare is no different than supporting ObamaCare.  Tea Party supporters mobilized strongly when ObamaCare was passed and voting for Mitt Romney would give them no leg to stand on in the general elections.

According to RedState:

“Romneycare is the antecedent to Obamacare.  It dramatically distorted the free-market of private insurance; it dumped a few hundred thousand people onto federally funded Medicaid; it set up gov’t-run exchanges that disincentivize success and offer larger subsidies than those proposed in Obamacare; it placed unreasonable mandates on employers to fund their employee’s healthcare.  The net result of Romneycare was the archetypical outcome of every statist policy; the price of a vital service was purposely distorted as a means of enticing more people to become dependent upon government.”

Secondly, Romney also gave his oath to protect a woman’s right to choose and his oath was said with conviction.  True pro life supporters do not trust Romney based on his previous support towards Planned Parenthood.

Lastly, Romney has taken a protectionist and isolationist view against immigrants.  He is considered one of the most anti-Latino GOP candidates since the Ronald Reagan years.  It was because of Reagan that Latinos began to vote in support of the Republican Party.  Mitt Romney has helped to destroy the progress that Reagan made within our Latino community.  If Romney wins the Republican Primary elections, Hispanic Republicans will write in Ronald Reagan on the ballot.

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We are anxious to see how the evangelicals will vote based on Romney’s constant flip flopping and Teflon political maneuvers.

From the Christian Post:

Romney’s Immigration Stance Lacks Christian Compassion

Mitt Romney’s attempts to woo conservatives with tough immigration rhetoric is drawing the party away from its compassionate conservative values, said a Hispanic Republican group.

Dee Dee Garcia Blase, founder and past president of Somos Republicans, said Romney is not a true conservative Republican.

His past as a pro-choice governor, the creator of a statewide health care mandate that was the blueprint for Obamacare and now a firm opponent of a pathway to citizenship for America’s 12 million plus illegal immigrants puts him out of touch with conservative values, Garcia said.

During the Monday night GOP debate in South Carolina, Romney proclaimed his support for “legal immigration,” but denounced the DREAM Act. He called the DREAM Act – which would allow young illegal immigrants to earn permanent resident status by pursuing a college education or the military – “a mistake” and promised to veto the legislation if it ever reached his desk as president.

Somos Republicans supports the DREAM Act as a compassionate response to America’s immigration problems.

Steve Rodriguez, vice president of Somos Republicans, said Gingrich has strong connections to the Hispanic community that pre-dates the 2012 GOP presidential race. The former speaker created two websites, one in 2004 and the other in 2009, to engage the Hispanic community. Rodriguez also said Gingrich has a number of Latino campaign workers, including himself.

“He has a history of reaching to the Hispanic community and speaking out to their needs,” he commented.

Read full story here.