Another Latino Republican considers leaving the Republican Party.

I have been receiving e-mails, phone calls, face book messages, twitter messages about how Latinos are feeling with regard to Republican inaction of Republican Presidential Candidates, politicians, and/or lawmakers when they make comments that advocate violence and DEATH of Latino immigrants.

The emails began after the failure of the 201 DREAM Act vote when it was discovered that only 3 GOP Senators supported the DREAM Act.  We maintained since that failure that there would be consequences of that unless GOP Senators do something before November 2012 to help take on a tough issue by fixing what is broken.

I suppose the Party that claims to be for “personal responsibility” will indeed be responsible for their inaction in moderating extreme anti-Latino immigrant rhetoric.

From Barrera’s Blabber Blog:

We do not like or sit back when our culture is attacked. We will not sit back and say nothing and allow our people to be treated like animals. Our history shows it will take wiping out an entire civilization before victory can be declared. This issue will prove to be nothing different.

The attacks that have been tolerated ignored and even embraced by many in the G.O.P. has been the cause for a majority of the Latinos who identified, supported and gave their vote to the Republican Party to pack up their stuff and leave the tent. I am one of those who identified with the Republican Party because the congruency of their platform and my culture. Not so anymore. With insensitive jester jackass’ like Herman Cain and others who have seemed to hijack the party making offending remarks, we have been alienated and are now in the wilderness similar to Moses after leading the Israelites out of Egypt. Many of us have found ourselves in a dark forest and are trying to find our way to the promise land. The frustrating part of it is that though I agree with most all conservative ideals and would be willing to help advance them, this issue and how it has been addressed by the conservatives has made me realize why conservatism is diminishing and may have seen its better days. I refuse to give my support to the other side because I don’t believe they have the best interest of our community at heart either.

Last night we heard Michele Bachmann use the defamatory term of “anchor baby”.  Do these Republicans not understand that Latinos and Hispanics equate the “anchor baby” term the same way the African American community feels with regard to the derogatory term of “tar baby”?

Where is the outrage against dehumanizing terms such as “anchor babies” at from pro life leaders and organizations?  Where is the outrage from the Christian community?!   A letter I want to share with you from a Latina Civil Rights Attorney:

March 16, 2011

Good afternoon, Chairperson Campbell and distinguished members of the Health and Human Services Committee.  My name is Shirley A. Mora James (spell out name).  I am a Latina civil rights attorney from Lincoln.  I am licensed to practice in all the Nebraska state courts, the federal courts of the District of Nebraska, the United State Immigration Court in Omaha, the United States Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit and the United States Supreme Court.  I am here speaking as a Mexican-American woman who was raised in western Nebraska and was taught in the Catholic teachings, which value children.

Today, my purpose is to give a voice to the silent unborn babies and their mothers in this debate, who are being denied prenatal care because they are poor or undocumented.  Specifically, I want to share a woman’s story with you.  The woman’s name is Guadalupe, she is a past victim of domestic violence and a  victim of civilized violence, i.e., the denial of prenatal care for her baby.  She is two months pregnant, has not visited a doctor yet for prenatal care.  The reality is Guadalupe simply could not afford to pay for health insurance or the necessary prenatal care that her baby needs.  She is an undocumented immigrant woman and is ineligible to adjust her immigration status in time to receive appropriate prenatal care for her unborn baby.

Guadalupe shared with me what she thought her only options are: (1) she could go back to her home country to seek medical care at great risk to her personal safety; or (2) stay here and get an abortion.  Needless to say, I was speechless and horrified that Guadalupe is being forced to make such choices: to murder her child because she is poor or go back to a country that has forsaken her, to me these options are not choices but EVILS.

Simply put, no mother, whether she is documented or not, should ever have to decide on killing her unborn baby because she cannot afford prenatal care.  I ask you all to consider the following, the women and their babies, who have suffered or died because of the denial of prenatal care are part of our human family and need to be treated as such.  And “SHAME ON” the callous “alleged pro-life” politicians who attempt to dehumanize these babies and their immigrant mothers by calling them ‘border jumpers’, ‘aliens’, ‘economic terrorists’, ‘illegals’, ‘anchor babies’, or by denying them prenatal care.  To these politicians, I ask: “Sirs, have you no compassion or sense of conscience, and where is your God given GRACE and empathy?

Finally, let’s ponder this question:  What have we become, in what kind society would these choices be forced on a mother and what does it say about that society?  Honorable members of this Committee, PLEASE deliver us from this EVIL that has seeped into the core of our Nebraska society!  Please, I respectfully request that you all vote for life in support of LB-599 and allow our unborn Nebraskan babies the opportunity to obtain the necessary prenatal care regardless of the status or the wealth of their mother.  I thank you for your time and kind consideration in this most important matter.  If you have any questions for me, I would be happy to answer them now.

Sincerely,

Shirley A. Mora James, JD

Attorney at Law

From the National Tequila Party Movement Vice President, Shirl Mora James in response to the New York Times Story where Bachmann and Cain Delivered Blistering Attacks on Immigrants.

 An Open Letter to America

Now is the Time to call out the Evils in our American society.  In this past week, the current GOP President Candidates Cain and Bachmann reveal their true colors and it is quite apparent that their colors are not the red, white and blue.  Instead Cain’s and Bachmann’s colors are of misinformation, hate and the promotion of the murder of innocent immigrants and their children who come here out of economical desperation, to feed their children because of NAFTA’s devastating effects on their farming and ranching businesses in their home countries.

To the GOP Candidate Cain: Why did you called for an electrified fence on the Mexican border that would kill people who touch it.  I ask you, Mr. Cain, what about the security of our other American borders?  Should we also put an electrified fence on our Northern, Western and Eastern borders?  And if not, then, why not?  Is your own personal greed so great to be the next President that you have forsaken your common human decency, your compassion for your fellow human beings, the struggles of civil rights movement against segregation and social justice for all people?  Look into your soul and ask yourself, is my promotion of the murder of innocent immigrants and their children, behavior that reflects God’s will?

To GOP Candidate Bachmann: Why did you vow to make to build a “secure double fence” and to eliminate “taxpayer-funded benefits” for undocumented immigrants?  If you studied and knew current immigration law, you would know that undocumented people cannot obtain any taxpayer-benefits.  In fact, legal immigrants must wait five years before they are eligible for any benefits.  Moreover, did you know that the undocumented people in America are paying into our social security system and yet they are not receiving any benefits from our social security system?  Truth be told, the undocumented peoples’ social security payments are filling the void of retiring “baby-boomers” into our social security system.  Economically, we need the new immigrants just like America needed our immigrant ancestors.

Ms. Bachmann, as I asked your competitor Cain, what about our security of the Northern, Western and Eastern borders?  Should we also build “double fences” on all our borders?  If not, then, why not?  As a Christian woman and mother, I expect more compassion and understanding from you since you promote yourself as a practicing Christian.  Look into your soul and ask yourself, where is my Christianity towards undocumented immigrants and their innocent hungry children?

My last question for both of you:  Ms. Bachmann and Mr. Cain, does your individual words and actions reflect the necessary characteristics of a ‘qualified woman’ or a ‘qualified man’ to be elevated to the position of the Presidency of the United States?

Marilyn Davenport, a tea party activist and elected member of the central committee of the Republican Party of Orange County, has been peddling a racist photo and email.  The caption beneath the picture read,  “Now you know why no birth certificate.” Lately, Donald Trump has jumped on the nativist and birther bandwagon and he has also been questioning Obama’s birthplace, and it’s no wonder they are all crawling out of their rocks again.

I have said it all along….the Tea Party movement has been hijacked by the birthers, nativists, and anti-immigrant racists.  They don’t belong in the Party of Abraham Lincoln and the GOP leadership needs to ask for her resignation because we cannot continue to afford the continued and overt blatant racism.  If leadership doesn’t step up and correct her racism, our Party will continue to be seen as the old Caucasian Party and our ethnic membership numbers will continue to dwindle.  We have too many of these nativists in our Party as it is — from Russell Pearce, to Rand Paul, to Michele Bachmann, to Jerry Moran, to Mike Lee,  to David Vitter and now Donald Trump.  The birther movement keeps growing via the Tea party movement, and each day they are being recognized as folks who meet at rallies because they simply hate the President.

I am very glad that Republicans that know her are asking her to resign.  Kudos to Scott Baugh (OC GOP Chairman) for telling her this photo was racist, and you can hear him in this video asking her to resign.

These photos are despicable, now where’s the Tequila?

Finally.  The New York Times is shedding light behind the evil force behind these anti-immigrant laws.  For months I have been warning pro life leaders in Arizona, and across the nation with regard to the evils that are behind legislators who are advocating to change the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution or Birthright Citizenship.

How can GOP legislators like Michele Bachmann claim to be pro life when they sponsor bills that end Birthright Citizenship of American born babies?  Either you are for baby rights or not, and when I discovered that Michele Bachman (Tea Party favorite) received a good rating from NumbersUSA, I dug deeper and found that she co-sponsored a bill to end birthright citizenship via H.R. 1868.

The New York Times pegged John Tanton pretty exact, and you will find to your amazement that he is a progressive.  In fact, John Tanton founded the Michigan Planned Parenthood and funnels millions of dollars towards placing abortion clinics in poor neighborhoods.  He is behind zero population organizations like NumbersUSA.  John Tanton wants to reduce the population and will go so far as to funnel money to third world countries in order to decrease population in other parts of the world.

So why isn’t the National Right to Life up to speed with regard to the evils behind the 14th amendment changes?  I believe it is because they have endorsed people like our very own state Senator Russell Pearce who has worked very hard to end birthright citizenship.  They don’t know what to do because they had no idea that progressives like Tanton have been working towards reducing population. If the Arizona state legislature would have passed the 14th amendment bills, then this would have encouraged undocumented women to abort their babies.

This is supposed to be a pro life leader’s job – to be proactive watchmen.  It is a pro life leader’s job to protect all baby rights — born and unborn, and they must not continue to turn a blind eye to GOP legislators who refer to precious gifts from God as “anchor babies”, and they must stop endorsing GOP legislators who want to end “birthright citizenship” like Michele Bachmann and Arizona State legislator — Russell Pearce.

Pro life leaders need to educate themselves on the John Tanton networks such as the Federation of Americans for Immigration Reform (FAIR), NumbersUSA, Center for Immigration Studies, and several more.  John Tanton has already hijacked the Democratic Party, and he is now doing an effective job in hijacking the Republican Party with his evil eugenic ideas, planned parenthood, zero population and anti-immigrant ideas. In fact, Republican Kris Kobach from Kansas has been instrumental in executing the orders of John Tanton via FAIR, and it should not come as a surprise to anyone why Kansas lawmakers are advocating the shooting of immigrants like pigs.  Now that we know Tanton has infected both parties, it’s no wonder everything is a mess.

It’s time for the Pro Life leaders to clean house for the upcoming 2012 elections.   They must refuse to endorse GOP lawmakers who advocate ending birthright citizenship.  Yes, it will hurt, but in the long run it will pay off because the arc of justice will always side with life.  Question is….will the pro life leaders have enough faith?

If the faith isn’t there, perhaps reading the New York Times might shed light on the evil John Tanton and numerous organizations he is behind.

When a member of FAIR wrote that Hispanic immigrants should be shot — because they “multiply like a bunch of rats” — a staff member offered to refund his dues. Early supporters included Senator Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota and Warren E. Buffett.

Now FAIR’s signature event is an annual gathering of talk radio hosts, where earnest policy pitches share time with the kind of battle cries Dr. Tanton once feared. This year’s event mixed discussion of job losses among minorities with calls to use Tomahawk missiles on Tijuana drug lords, while a doubter of President Obama’s birth certificate referred to “the undocumented worker” in the White House. Leading allies include Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, whose sweeps of Latino neighborhoods around Phoenix have prompted a federal investigation.

While the whole movement grew more vehement as illegal immigration increased, Dr. Tanton seemed especially open to provocative allies and ideas. He set off a storm of protests two decades ago with a memorandum filled with dark warnings about the “Latin onslaught.” Word soon followed that FAIR was taking money from the Pioneer Fund, a foundation that promoted theories of the genetic superiority of whites.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/us/17immig.html?_r=1