Why is the pro life hypocrite Senator Marco Rubio taking DREAM Act marching orders from the likes of the John Tanton network?  John Tanton was the organizer and President of the Northern Michigan Planned Parenthood Association.  John Tanton not only funds abortion clinics across the globe, John Tanton also has an axe to grind against Catholicism.  It’s no wonder Tanton loathes the Catholic church (many Latinos are members of the Catholic Church) because the Pope of Rome is an avid pro life messenger.

From Journalist Pilar Marrero:

Marco Rubio’s Dream Act: Brought to You by the Same Folks who Invented “Self-Deportation”

… In other words, Rubio opposes offering the youngsters, many of whom are already graduate and post graduate students, the kind of status that would allow them to eventually sponsor immediate family members, much like Rubio’s parents in Cuba were sponsored by his auntie in Florida back in 1956, before Fidel Castro came to power. …  The concept of keeping citizenship out of reach for legalized immigrants it’s actually the brainchild of the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) a research organization that is part of the same lobbying group that pushed the “attrition thru enforcement” concept and the legal push behind the local and state anti immigration laws such as SB1070, the Arizona Law, that will soon be argued in front of the Supreme Court. CIS, FAIR and the Immigration Reform Law Institute are all part of the same network of organizations in Washington that want to limit not illegal, but LEGAL immigration.

Who is behind these unconstitutional laws?

The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) is an anti-immigration ‘movement,’ that began by one man, John Tanton. Tanton was the organizer and President of the Northern Michigan Planned Parenthood Association between 1965-1971, and in 1975 he wrote The Case for Passive Eugenics where his letters and memos are a public collection at the Bentley Historical Library.  (1) Tanton has clear connections to Pioneer Fund and Numbers USA where  Pioneer Fund’s eugenic ideas (selective breeding of humans)  supported a variety of institutions that legitimize race “science”, including the journal Mankind Quarterly, which today is published by long-time eugenicist, anti-Semite and Pioneer grant recipient Roger Pearson. (2) According to the Wall Street Journal, Jason Riley states that by Dr. Tanton’s own reckoning, FAIR has received more than $1.5 million from the Pioneer Fund, a white-supremacist outfit devoted to racial purity through eugenics. Board members of FAIR actively promote the sterilization of Third World women for the purposes of reducing U.S. immigration prospects. And if anything disturbs the good doctor more than those Latin American hordes crossing the Rio Grande, it’s the likelihood that most of them are Catholic, or so he once told a Reuters reporter. (3)  As the founder and publisher of Social Contract Press, Tanton has published books that have helped shaped a nationalist ideology focused on the threat of immigrants to the white…while ignoring research that points to the positive contributions of immigrants. (4)

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FAIR and Kris Kobach are not “conservative”

FAIR purports to be “conservative” but its founder and some of its board members have been deeply involved with Planned Parenthood for decades.  In fact, FAIR is a contributor to Planned Parenthood that openly provides for abortions in minority communities across the nation.  Furthermore, FAIR has no respect for states’ rights as they seek to impose unconstitutional laws on states and strain their budgets defending indefensible laws.

Conclusion

FAIR and Kris Kobach have needlessly cost taxpayers in states and small communities across the nation millions of dollars.  They do not support the Constitution.  They are not Pro-Life.  They are not conservative.  There is a better way, a constitutional way, and we, at Somos Republicans, are leading the way.  Bills written by FAIR are both unconstitutional and costly — There is a better way!

References:

(1) University of Michigan Libary – Bentley Historical Library research of  John Tanton papers (1960-2007).  http://mirlyn-classic.lib.umich.edu/F/?func=find-b&find_code=WRD&local_base=bent_pub&request=tanton

(2)  Pioneer Fund. Southern Poverty Law Center. http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/pioneer-fund

(3) The Wall Street Journal.  GOP Nativists Tarnish Reagan’s ‘Shining City’ by Jason Riley. http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB107931059351255105,00.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries

(4) John Tanton – Right Web Profile and Institute for Policy Studies.  http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Tanton_John

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SOMOS REPUBLICANS, largest Hispanic Republican group in nation and based in Arizona endorsed Newt Gingrich and we have just received this information today:

Dear Friend,

I have some breaking news to share: The latest polls show that Newt is in first place in both Alabama and Mississippi!

In Alabama he holds a one point lead with 30% and in Mississippi he holds a four point lead with 35%. While we’re excited Newt is leading the pack, the race is still extremely tight and every vote will count.

Both Alabama and Mississippi go to the polls next Tuesday, and we are taking nothing for granted. Newt is aggressively campaigning across both states right now and our grassroots volunteers are hard at work reaching out to undecided voters.

As Newt travels both states, it’s clear his message of $2.50 gasoline is resonating and voters are responding to his bold leadership that has put President Obama on the defensive over his failed policies.

Now more than ever we need a quick infusion of donations to help spread Newt’s message just days before voters go to the ballot box. Can you chip in $25, $50, $100 or more right now to help Newt win Alabama and Mississippi?

Newt has the momentum at just the right time, and your generous donation today will go a long way towards boosting our voter turnout effort in Alabama and Mississippi.

Thank you,

Michael Krull
Campaign Manager
Newt 2012

P.S. New polls in Alabama and Mississippi show Newt in first place by a close margin, so every vote will count. Please make a generous donation today to help us maximize our voter turnout effort on Election Day.

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.

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/

Mitt Romney received the endorsement from Kris Kobach who is responsible for almost all anti-immigrant and anti-DREAM Act laws in the nation.

Here is a FAIR 101 class for those who are confused.  The below person endorsed Mitt Romney and we have permission to reprint Southern Poverty Law Information:

The Nativists

Kris Kobach, 41
Kansas City, Mo.

The man behind many of the deeply flawed anti-illegal immigrant laws passed recently is Kris Kobach, the “national expert on constitutional law” who works for the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI). IRLI is the legal arm of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), recently listed as a nativist hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. At IRLI, Kobach has been a prime mover behind ordinances in Farmer’s Branch, Texas, and Hazelton, Pa., among other places, that seek to punish those who aid and abet “illegal aliens.”

Kris Kobach

The laws have not done well. The Hazelton ordinance, crafted by Kobach and fellow IRLI attorney Michael Hethmon, was struck down last year by a federal judge who also charged the city for all legal fees. “Everything he does has been a failure,” Mira Mdivani, a Kansas immigration lawyer, told The Pitch in January 2007.

Before joining IRLI, Kobach served as U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft’s top immigration adviser, moving on to take charge of Department of Justice efforts to tighten border security shortly after the 9/11 attacks. There, he developed a program — the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System — that called for close monitoring of men from Arab and Muslim nations, even legal U.S. residents. The program collapsed due to complaints of racial profiling and discrimination.

In 2004, Kobach ran for Congress. (At the same time, he worked on a FAIR lawsuit against a Kansas law granting in-state tuition rates to the children of undocumented immigrants. The suit was dismissed.) Kobach lost by 11 percentage points after his opponent accused him of ties to white supremacists.

Kobach also has taught constitutional and immigration law since 2003 at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, but has come under attack there for anti-immigrant bias. In January 2007, for instance, fliers appeared on campus accusing Kobach of inflating his credentials and crafting bad law. In the classroom, he uses as a text a controversial book by political science professor Samuel Huntington that argues that today’s immigrants will “divide the United States into two peoples, two cultures, two languages.”

Kobach, who in 2007 became chairman of the Kansas Republican Party, is far-right Christian fundamentalist. During his 2004 campaign, he accused his opponent of associating with groups supporting “homosexual pedophilia.” He was referring to the Human Rights Campaign, a mainstream gay rights organization that has never come remotely close to endorsing pedophilia.

Largest Hispanic Republican Group in the nation endorses Mexican-American Abel Maldonado.

For Immediate Release

31 January 2012

SOMOS REPUBLICANS ENDORSES ABEL MALDONADO FOR CALIFORNIA CONGRESS

SOMOS REPUBLICANS is happy to announce it’s endorsement of Abel Maldonado for California Congress. Maldonado is a Republican Mexican-American politician who has a reasonable approach to the immigration issue for the Republican Party.

Maldonado proudly states on his website:

“I will never forget where I come from, the fields of Santa Maria, I will never forget who put me in office, the people of the central coast, and I will never forget whose money government spends. It’s the people’s money and I will never let the people down.”

Maldonado has never wavered nor has he flip flopped on the immigration issue for political expediency or self-serving ways. He has never kicked Latinos or immigrants down during the worst anti-immigrant eras of our time (post Arizona’s harsh anti-immigrant SB 1070 law).  He has always supported our Latin youth and the DREAM Act.

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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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