National pro-immigration reform group Cafe Con Leche Republicans today reacted to the presidential election debacle. Bob Quasius, president, said

Yesterday’s election results show it is imperative that the Republican Party improve Latino outreach or become permanently uncompetitive in presidential and many other races. Exit and election-eve polls put Mitt Romney’s votes among Latinos at 23%, although over 60% of Latinos are center-right, according to Pew Research.

Polls consistently show a majority of Republicans support immigration reform, including a path to legalization, and a PEW Research poll from May 2011 showed that even among staunch conservatives there is a 49/49% split on immigration reform. However, due to lack of engagement and outreach and shrill rhetoric on this issue from a small minority of Republican politicians, Democrats have been successful in unfairly framing the Republican party as anti-immigrant and anti-Latino, particularly in states where there has been harsh rhetoric on immigration.

This trend started in California. Prior to proposition 187, Republicans were competitive in statewide races, but since Governor Pete Wilson jumped on the proposition 187 bandwagon, many Hispanics left the GOP and since then the GOP has not been competitive in statewide races in California.

Latino outreach improved during the Reagan/Bush years, and President Bush won over 40% of the Latino vote during his reelection campaign, proving that Latinos can be swayed to vote Republican with the right messaging and sensible solutions to issues of interest to Latinos like immigration.

However, since SB1070 and other harsh laws were passed, mass exodus of conservative Hispanics has occurred in Colorado following Tom Tancredo’s candidacy for Governor, in Arizona following SB1070, and in Nevada due to harsh rhetoric from Sharon Angle in the U.S. Senate race.

Cafe Con Leche Republicans initially supported Newt Gingrich, and one of our reasons is that Newt’s campaign recognized the importance of outreach to Latinos and a sensible stance on immigration reform, neither mass amnesty nor mass deportations but a solution that addresses our broken immigration system and seeks to strike a balance between accountability for illegal immigration, and the need to keep families together and avoid damaging our economy. Newt’s campaign reached out to us, and ultimately Cafe Con Leche Republicans provided five members of Newt’s national Hispanic leadership team.

When Newt dropped out of the race and Mitt Romney became the nominee, we decided to support Mitt Romney. Numerous attempts to connect with the Romney campaign’s Hispanic outreach proved fruitless. In our one year of existence, we’ve also had just one conversation with the RNC’s Latino outreach, and were left with the impression the RNC wasn’t interested in working with us due to our pro-immigration focus.

A common complaint among Latino Republican leaders is that RNC Latino outreach is dominated by a small clique of Latino Republicans from Washington DC and Florida, to the exclusion of others, particularly from the Southwest. We share the frustration of Latino Republican leaders from outside the DC/Florida clique that Mitt Romney received bad advice to largely ignore immigration, and some of Mitt’s rhetoric and association with immigration extremist Kris Kobach early in the campaign provided useful fodder for Democrats to frame Mitt Romney as anti-immigrant and anti-Latino, which we don’t believe is the case.

It’s time to root out the small minority of immigration extremists from the GOP. That process is already underway, for example Russell Pearce, the author of SB1070, has now twice been defeated by conservative Republicans who differed mainly by having sensible positions on immigration reform. We’d like to see Kris Kobach leave the party. Kobach is a top lieutenant to John Tanton, a notorious bigot and population control progressive, who once bragged how he manipulates Republicans. In a letter to a supporter, Tanton in 2001 stated:

The goal is to change Republicans’ perception of immigration so that when they encounter the word “immigrant,” their reaction is “Democrat.”

Our plan is to hire a lobbyist who will carry the following message to Republicans on Capitol Hill and to business leaders: Continued massive immigration will soon cost you political control of the White House and Congress, given the current, even division of the electorate, and the massive infusion of voters about to be made to the Democratic side. We are about to replay the Democratic hegemony of 1933-53, fueled back then by the massive immigration of 1890-1924.

It’s time for the GOP to recognize this pattern of manipulation, and fully embrace immigration reform based on free market principles, and not arbitrarily low quotas promoted by population control progressives like Tanton. Harsh rhetoric on immigration coupled with lack of adequate engagement with Latinos and race baiting by Democrats has resulted in very low GOP support among Latinos, and we ignore this at our own political peril.

The 2012 election served up lemons for Republicans, but with sensible changes in strategy and direction we can make lemonade instead. Already we’re hearing that party leaders have woken up and ‘smelled the coffee’ and we’re hopeful this situation can be turned around.

President Obama promised to pursue immigration reform during his second term. Due to President Obama’s history of immigration fakery and failure to put anything on the table during his first term, we have reason to doubt this promise, but he is welcome to surprise us. With the election behind us, we have put our partisan hats and boxing gloves aside, and we stand fully ready to work with President Obama and Democrats on immigration reform, which won’t happen without bipartisan support. We hope that President Obama will ‘hit the reset button’ in his relationship with Republicans in Congress, as the hyper-partisanship that has characterized the last four years has been a major stumbling block to governing our nation.

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About Us – Cafe Con Leche Republicans is a national organization of Republicans who welcome “New Americans”, defined as immigrants and family of recent immigrants. Our mission is to make America and the GOP, more welcoming to “New Immigrants” through political activism, “in-reach” and education within the Republican Party, and lobbying government to adopt more immigrant friendly policies. We also seek to bring more conservative and moderate “New Americans” to the Republican Party. These efforts will strengthen the GOP, and lead more Republicans to embrace welcoming policies for immigrants and their families. We have members nationwide, with chapters in Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Texas, Oklahoma, Arizona, and California. Our members and leadership are predominantly Hispanic, though we define ourselves by mission and guiding principles, not ethnicity, and we welcome all who share our goals. Our leadership is 100% Republican.

by Bob Quasius

Sharing this news release, with Arizona context. Much of Arizona’s border is remote, and as border fencing, security, etc. has been beefed up in other states, Arizona, in particular the Tucson Sector, has become a funnel for increased illegal border crossing.

The U.S. currently has seven million unauthorized immigrant workers, with the capacity to remove approximately 400,000 per year. Just 1.7 million guest worker and training visas were issued in 2011. In other words, less than 20% of ‘guest workers’ have a visa! Most guest worker visas are subject to strict quotas. In many cases the quotas are a small fraction of need, and across the board employers and employees encounter considerable red tape, delays, etc., and once a visa is issued, guest workers cannot readily change employers, which allows unscrupulous employers to exploit them.

For example, the U.S. has 1.5 million non-citizen agricultural workers, but only 12% have some type of visa. Many states that have implemented immigration crackdowns quickly experienced farm labor shortages. Even states that did not crack down, such as Washington State, are experiencing farm worker shortages. Some Americans are willing to take these types of jobs, but not in the numbers needed by agriculture. Georgia and Alabama experienced widespread crop losses after implementing SB1070 type laws, as immigrant farm workers fled but few Americans took their place. After SB1070 was passed, over 100,000 immigrants fled Arizona, and yet Yuma’s unemployment rate remains at great depression levels.

Fixing legal immigration and guest worker programs can be expected to reduce illegal border crossings by diverting the flow of migrant workers into legal channels, allowing the border patrol to focus on those who are truly dangerous, such as drug traffickers, gun runners, and terrorists. The grid lock on immigration reform remains in Washington, with Obama blaming Republicans when in truth Republicans are deeply divided on immigration reform, but don’t trust Obama! Read our release below for more perspective…

Marshall, MN – National pro-immigrant group Cafe Con Leche Republicans today slammed President Obama for failing to include immigration reform in his second-term economic plan titled “A Plan for Jobs & Middle-Class Security.” In May 2011 Obama described immigration reform as an “economic imperative” and yet incredibly Obama fails to include immigration reform in his economic and jobs plan!

During both presidential campaigns, Obama often promised to introduce immigration reform during his first year in office. However, Obama failed to put anything on the table during his first two years in office, despite a strong majority in Congress, and a cloture-proof majority in the Senate.

In a recent interview with Univisión, Obama again blamed Republicans for his own lack of leadership on immigration:

“My biggest failure so far is we haven’t gotten comprehensive immigration reform done, but it’s not because for lack of trying or desire, and I’m confident we are going to accomplish that.

What I confess I did not expect, and so I’m happy to take responsibility for being naive here, is that Republicans who had previously supported comprehensive immigration reform, my opponent in 2008 who had been a champion of it and who attended these meetings, suddenly would walk away.”

Obama’s biggest failure has been failure to work with Congress on a range of issues, not just immigration, and the second part of his answer to Univisión highlight his constant blame of others for his own leadership failures. Obama also failed to put immigration reform on the table during his first two years, and yet still blames Republicans for blocking it!

Obama’s actions as a Senator underline a different explanation of Obama’s failure to lead. Obama claimed he supported Bush’s immigration reform bill, then quietly worked with Harry Reid to sabotage Bush’s immigration reform through poison pill amendments and procedure to encourage moderate Republicans to drop their support, and then blaming Republicans for the bill’s failure. In a 2010 Wall Street Journal Op-ed, former Bush administration official William McGurn described Obama’s “immigration fakery”:

Earlier this month President Obama gave us his speech on comprehensive immigration reform.

Since then, observers have commented on its similarity to the Oval Office address given by George W. Bush four years earlier. As someone who had a hand in the Bush speech, let me point out two striking differences.

First, President Bush actually wanted an immigration bill, and indeed many of his conservative critics loathed him for it. Second, because he knew that such a bill required bipartisan support, he did not disparage members of the other party.

Wait a minute. Hasn’t Mr. Obama told us how he “reached across the aisle in the Senate to fight for comprehensive immigration reform”? Well, yes, those are his words. The back story, however, suggests another face to our president. For then-Sen. Obama also favored a series of amendments that were plainly recognized as bill-killers—spurning not only Mr. Bush and Mr. McCain but the Democratic architect of that compromise, Sen. Edward Kennedy (D., Mass.).

One such amendment was Mr. Obama’s own, which aimed to substitute family ties for education and skills when determining who gets green cards. That led to what the Associated Press called a “heated exchange” with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.). Mr. Graham accused Mr. Obama of undercutting Democrats and Republicans working for reform—contrary to his lofty campaign rhetoric about Americans coming together.

So when you are out on the campaign trail, my friend, tell them about why we can’t come together,” said Mr. Graham. “This is why.”

Mr. Obama’s mischief did not stop there. Though his own amendment failed, he supported another poison pill by Sen. Byron Dorgan (D., N.D.). Mr. Dorgan’s target was the guest-worker provision, another key to GOP and business buy-in.

There were 70 “yea” cloture votes to introduce Bush’s immigration reform, including dozens of Republicans. After Obama’s fakery and Harry Reid’s chicanery in not allowing debate on most Republican amendments, immigration reform failed to gain the required “yea” votes in two cloture votes to end debate and take up a final vote. Although the second cloture vote came closer to the required 60 “yea” votes, instead of allowing amendments and debate to continue until 60 votes were secured, Reid pulled the bill.

A constant narrative from Democrats ever since is that Republicans blocked immigration reform, when in fact Reid pulled the bill from the floor as “yea” votes for cloture approached the required 60. Not surprisingly, Republicans in Congress learned not to trust Obama on immigration and other issues, trust that is essential for bipartisanship. In fact, there has been almost no bipartisanship during Obama’s presidency, a problem that began during Obama’s tenure as a Senator, as described Bob Woodward’s book “The Price of Politics.” In our opinion, Mitt Romney demonstrated the ability to work across the aisle as Governor of Massachusetts, where he had to work with a legislature with 85% Democrat majority, and this, combined with Mitt Romney’s economic plan and immigration reform platform led us to endorse Mitt Romney. Mitt Romney can be expected to work with both parties in Congress, find middle ground, and pass immigration reform as promised, while Obama will either ignore the issue or continue to use immigration as a wedge issue as he has done now for years.

Obama campaigned in 2008 on a strong commitment to pass immigration reform during his first year in office, but during his first two years in office Obama failed to put anything on the table despite a strong House majority and cloture-proof majority in the Senate. He failed to even call Democrat senators in support of the DREAM Act, and Reid combined abortion measures and gay marriage with the DREAM Act to ensure that few Republicans would vote for the DREAM Act. Despite failing to put anything on the table, Obama has continued to blame Republicans for his own lack of leadership on immigration reform. Sadly, ‘hope and change’ has become ‘hype and blame’ and we have seen no progress on immigration reform during Obama’s presidency.

During the last year of the Bush administration, the H2A agricultural guest worker program was streamlined to help farmers obtain the guest workers they needed, while also enhancing accountability for hiring unauthorized workers. Upon taking office, Obama promptly canceled Bush’s H2A improvements, and then made the H2A program even more difficult for farmers. About 88% of non-citizen farm workers are unauthorized immigrants as a result. The H2A system remains broken to this day, although there is flexibility to reform this program administratively just as Bush did.

When Marco Rubio sought to find middle ground and introduce a new version of the DREAM Act, DREAM Activists and Democratic congressmen and senators were told not to talk with Rubio by the Obama administration, and soon afterwards came the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, a ‘band aid’ approach to providing relief for deportation for DREAM eligible youth, was rolled out to undermine Senator Rubio’s efforts. DACA angered Republicans in Congress, who rightly felt Obama was circumventing Congress, and ended any hope of bipartisanship solutions during the present Congress. A lawsuit was filed by immigration agents and union leaders, which seems likely to prevail on some points. In the rush to implement DACA, the Obama administration’s failed to follow the rule making process mandated by federal law.
Though jobs and economy remain top issues with New Americans, immigration is important too, with Latinos in particular, since a large majority of Latinos are immigrants themselves, or first or second generation immigrants, and often empathize with unauthorized immigrants. Obama’s continued “fakery”, as evidenced by his omission of immigration reform in his economic plan though he has described immigration reform as an “economic imperative” speaks to Obama’s continued “immigration fakery.”
His opponent, Mitt Romney, supported Bush’s immigration reform bills, and has demonstrated the ability to reach across the aisle as governor of Massachusetts. If Obama is reelected, he’s welcome to surprise us by hitting the “reset” button with Congress, and on this issue we will work with anyone who will work with us, but so far Obama has done little to inspire confidence he can turn around his relationship with Congress. We cannot help but note Mitt Romney’s strong commitment to turning our economy around, and his immigration reform platform promises badly needed reforms in guest worker programs.

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About Us – Cafe Con Leche Republicans is a national organization of Republicans who welcome “New Americans”, defined as immigrants and family of recent immigrants. Our mission is to make America and the GOP, more welcoming to “New Immigrants” through political activism, “in-reach” and education within the Republican Party, and lobbying government to adopt more immigrant friendly policies. We also seek to bring more conservative and moderate “New Americans” to the Republican Party. These efforts will strengthen the GOP, and lead more Republicans to embrace welcoming policies for immigrants and their families. We have members nationwide, with chapters in Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Texas, Oklahoma, Arizona, and California. Our members and leadership are predominantly Hispanic, though we define ourselves by mission and guiding principles, not ethnicity, and we welcome all who share our goals. Our leadership is 100% Republican.

Recently actor John Leguizamo stated ”Latin people for Republicans are like roaches for raid” and “It doesn’t make sense. [Republicans are] not for us. You’re not for my values.”

Bob Quasius, President of pro-immigrant GOP group Cafe Con Leche Republicans, today called upon Leguizamo to apologize, stating “We are appalled that John Leguizamo compared “cockroaches” and “Latinos”, inferring that Republicans view Latinos as “cockroaches.” Nothing could be further from the truth. Polls consistently show that a majority of Republicans support immigration reform, and support levels for both immigration reform and immigration enforcement are not much different than Americans in general. PEW Research’s May 2011 poll found that even among “staunch conservatives”, a 49%/49% split support immigration reform including a path to legalization for unauthorized immigrants.

Latino Republicans continue to be elected to high public offices, and several Latinos were high profile speakers at the recent Republican National Convention, including American’s first Hispanic woman governor, Susana Martinez, and Senator Marco Rubio, who introduced Mitt Romney, and was on Mitt Romney’s short list of vice-presidential running mates.

Pew Hispanic polls consistently find that more than 60% of Latinos are center-right ideologically, showing that Latino values are more in-line with Republican Party values than the Democratic Party. Perhaps if John Leguizamo and Eva Longoria spent less time among Holloywood liberal elites they would be more in touch with mainstream Latino values.

We find it particularly galling that Hollywood liberals like John Leguizamo and Eva Longoria continue to ‘put lip stick on a pig’ by praising Obama. The Obama administration has deported more immigrants than any other president, utterly failed to lead on immigration reform, aggressively rolled out secure communities, which fuels racial profiling and has resulted in the false arrest of thousands of Latino citizens, and has denied U.S. passports to thousands of midwife birthed Latino citizens from South Texas. Obama is one of our worst presidents in modern history.

We predict Mitt Romney will do better than expected among Latinos in November. Many Latinos are seeing through Obama’s empty promises and fakery on immigration, and the need to have competent leadership in the White House to turn around our dismal economy.”

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About Us – Cafe Con Leche Republicans is a national organization of Republicans who welcome “New Americans”, defined as immigrants and family of recent immigrants. Our mission is to make America and the GOP, more welcoming to “New Immigrants” through political activism, “in-reach” and education within the Republican Party, and lobbying government to adopt more immigrant friendly policies. We also seek to bring more conservative and moderate “New Americans” to the Republican Party. These efforts will strengthen the GOP, and lead more Republicans to embrace welcoming policies for immigrants and their families. We have members nationwide, with chapters in Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Texas, Oklahoma, Arizona, and California. Our members and leadership are predominantly Hispanic, though we define ourselves by mission and guiding principles, not ethnicity, and we welcome all who share our goals. Our leadership is 100% Republican.

For Immediate Release (en español)

Marshall, MN – America is at a crossroads. The national debt has skyrocketed. Americans continue to struggle as the economy slogs through a seemingly endless recession.

Obama’s failed economic policies remind us of FDR’s failed Keynsian economic policies. After eight years of massive stimulus spending and an explosion in debt, the U.S. economic recovery lagged that of other industrialized nations. FDR’s own Treasury Secretary, Henry Morgenthau Jr. famously stated: “No, gentlemen, we have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work.” Another four years of Obama’s failed economic policies and we will be no better off than today. Clearly it is time for change, not more failed policy, class warfare, and massive expansion in government!

Fortunately, Americans have a chance to change our nation’s path this November. Cafe con Leche Republicans is proud to endorse a Presidential ticket that is willing to meet these challenges head-on. Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan both have an acute understanding of the perils of the national debt and, even more importantly, have proposed concrete steps to address this. Both are committed free market capitalists who understand that the private sector creates jobs while government is a drag on the economy, which consumes resources needed to economic growth.

As pro-immigrant Republicans, we also believe that the type of complete immigration overhaul we need is more likely to occur under a Romney/Ryan administration. Obama’s lack of leadership on this issue is truly shocking. Obama promised immigration reform within the first year of his presidency; instead, Americans were force-fed a healthcare bill that no one wanted, while deportations reach record highs due to the administration’s Secure Communities Program.

Thousands of Latino citizens have been effectively stripped of their citizenship by Obama’s State Department, which frequently refuses to recognize the citizenship of Latinos birthed in the U.S. by midwives. The Obama administration has aggressively rolled out the Secure Communities Program, despite the widespread racial profiling and false arrests of Latino citizens that has resulted. One recent study showed that 93% of immigrants arrested under Secure Communities are Latino versus 78% of the unauthorized population. 3,600 Latino citizens were falsely arrested, and non-criminal arrests for traffic infractions such as cracked windshields is now approaching 50%.

To compensate for his lack of leadership on immigration, Obama recently rolled out a deferred action program as a short term fix to address his soaring deportation numbers, to boost his support among Latinos, and to undermine Marco Rubio’s efforts to introduce a bipartisan DREAM Act. However, this is just Obama’s latest example of fakery. Deferred Action for low priority unauthorized immigrants such as DREAM eligible youth has been policy at DHS since 2000 (Meisssner memo). Obama rolled out a similar ‘new policy’ in June 2011 (Morton Memo), and of 411,000 cases reviewed since then just 2% were closed,

DREAMers and other low priority immigrants continued to be deported aggressively, and ICE’s labor union defied Obama by refusing to allow its members to attend Morton training. AILA conducted a survey of ICE offices and found nearly all ignored the Morton memo. We cannot help but remain skeptical of Obama’s latest ‘new plan’, and as correctly pointed out by Mitt Romney this latest ‘new plan’ is a short term fix, and is apparently more about fixing Obama’s lagging lack of  enthusiasm among Latino voters than a real solution to help DREAM eligible youth trapped in a predicament not of their own making.

We need real leadership on this issue; not more fakery! The plan laid out on Mitt Romney’s web site is a good plan, not as complete as we’d like to see but a good start point. Mitt Romney supported President Bush’s plans for immigration reform, while Obama and Harry Reid sought to sabotage Bush’s reforms, yet another example of Obama’s fakery. Obama’s supporters have sought to frame Romney’s positions based largely on comments made during one of the debates, while ignoring the plan on Romney’s web site. Defense of Obama’s immigration record is like ‘putting lip stick on a pig.’

Likewise, Paul Ryan sponsored immigration reform as a congressman in 2005 – at the very same time that then-Senator Obama was trying to kill the Senate version of the same bill. Paul Ryan is also the latest addition to a growing group of pro-immigration reform advisors to Romney’s inner circle. Other notable reformers include Sen. Mel Martinez (R-FL), Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Gov. Luis Fortuno (R-Puerto Rico), and former Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, all of whom have been major proponents of sensible immigration reforms.

Americans are begging for a course correction. “Hope and Change” has failed and more recently has become ‘hype and blame’; the country needs some “R & R” – Romney and Ryan! Café con Leche Republicans is proud to endorse the Romney/Ryan ticket, and we look forward to working with our fellow Republicans – and indeed, Americans of all political persuasions – to get them elected this November. Romney/Ryan 2012!

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About Us – Cafe Con Leche Republicans is a national organization of Republicans who welcome “New Americans”, defined as immigrants and family of recent immigrants. Our mission is to make America and the GOP, more welcoming to “New Immigrants” through political activism, “in-reach” and education within the Republican Party, and lobbying government to adopt more immigrant friendly policies. We also seek to bring more conservative and moderate “New Americans” to the Republican Party. These efforts will strengthen the GOP, and lead more Republicans to embrace welcoming policies for immigrants and their families. We have members nationwide, with chapters in Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Texas, Oklahoma, Arizona, Nevada, and California. Our members and leadership are predominantly Hispanic, though we define ourselves by mission and guiding principles, not ethnicity, and we welcome all who share our goals. Our leadership is 100% Republican.

Para divulgación inmediata (en inglés)

Marshall, MN – América está en una encrucijada. La deuda nacional se ha disparado. Los Americanos continúan luchando mientras la economía se mueve lentamente a través de una recesión interminable.

Las fallidas políticas económicas de Obama nos hacen recordar las fallidas  políticas económicas Keynsian  de FDR. Después de ocho años de  gastos masivos del estímulo y una explosión de la deuda, la recuperación económica de los Estados Unidos está retrasada detrás de otras naciones industrializadas. El mismo secretario del tesoro de FDR, Henry Morgenthau Jr. Famosamente declaro: “No, caballeros, hemos tratado gastar dinero. Estamos gastando más de lo que hemos gastado antes y no funciona.” Otros cuatro años de las fallidas políticas económicas de Obama y no estaremos mejor de lo que estamos hoy. ¡Claramente es tiempo para cambio, no más política fallida, lucha de clases, y expansión masiva en el gobierno!

Afortunadamente, los Americanos tienen una oportunidad para cambiar el rumbo de nuestra nación este noviembre. Café con Leche Republicanos está orgulloso de aprobar un ticket presidencial que está dispuesto de satisfacer todos los desafíos de frente. Mitt Romney y Paul Ryan tienen un buen entendimiento de los peligros de la deuda nacional y aun mas importantemente, han propuesto pasos concretos para dirigirirse a estos problemas. Los dos son mercado libre capitalistas comprometidos que entienden que el sector privado crea los empleos mientras que el gobierno es una carga en la economía, que consume los recursos necesitados para el crecimiento económico.

Como Republicanos pro-inmigrantes, también creemos que el tipo de  reviso completo migratorio que necesitamos es más probable que ocurra bajo una administración Romney/Ryan. La falta de liderazgo de Obama en el asunto en verdad es aterradora. Obama prometió una reforma migratoria en el primer año de su presidencia; en vez de eso, los Americanos fueron forzados  a tomar un proyecto de ley de salud quien nadie quería, mientras que las deportaciones alcanzaban records altos por medio del programa de Comunidades Seguras de la administración.

Miles de ciudadanos Latinos se les  ha quitado efectivamente  su ciudadanía por el Departamento Estatal de Obama, que frecuentemente se niega a reconocer la ciudadanía de los Latinos nacidos en los Estados Unidos por parteras. La administración de Obama agresivamente desplego el programa de Comunidades Seguras, a pesar de la expansión de la discriminación racial y falsos arrestos de los ciudadanos Latinos que han ocurrido. Un estudio reciente mostro que el 93% de los inmigrantes arrestados bajo Comunidades Seguras son Latinos versus el 78% de la populación si autorización. 3,600 de los ciudadanos Latinos fueron falsamente arrestados, y arrestos no criminales por infracciones de traficó como parabrisas quebrados están llegando a 50%.

Para compensar su falta de liderazgo en inmigración, Obama recientemente desplego un programa de acción como una solución temporaria para dirigirse a los números altos de deportaciones, para subir su apoyo Latino, y para hacer chiquitos los esfuerzos de Marco Rubio a introducir un Dream Act aprobado por los dos bandos.  La Acción Diferida para los estudiantes sin autorización de baja prioridad como los jóvenes elegibles DREAM ha sido una política en DHS desde el 2000. (Meissner memo). Obama desplego una política similar “similar” en Junio del 2011 (Morton Memo) y de los 411,000 casos revisados desde entonces solo el 2% fueron cerrados.

Los Dreamers y otros inmigrantes de baja prioridad continúan siendo deportados agresivamente, y la unión de labor de ICE desafío a Obama al negarse a permitir a sus miembros atender el entrenamiento Morton. AILA condujo un estudio de las oficinas de ICE y encontró que casi todas ignoraron el memo Morton.  No podemos hacer más que permanecer escépticos del “nuevo plan”  de Obama, y como Mitt Romney correctamente señalo que el “nuevo plan” es una solución temporaria, y aparentemente es mas sobre el arreglo de la falta de entusiasmo de Obama entre medio de los votantes Latinos en vez de una solución real para ayudar a los jóvenes elegibles para el DREAM atrapados en un predicamento no creados por sí mismos.

Necesitamos un verdadero liderazgo en este problema;  ¡no más falsedad! El plan desplegado en la página web de Mitt Romney es un buen plan, no completo como quisiéramos ver pero es un buen comienzo. Mitt Romney apoyo los planes del Presidente Bush para la reforma migratoria, mientras que Obama y Harry Reíd trataron de sabotear las reformas de Bush, otro ejemplo de la falsedad de Obama. Los apoyadores de Obama han tratado de hacer fraude contra las posiciones de Romney basado normalmente solo en los comentarios hechos durante uno de los debates, mientras que ignoran el plan que está en la página web de él. Defensa en los records de inmigración de Obama es como “ponerle maquillaje a un cerdo.”

Así mismo, Paul Ryan apoyo la reforma migratoria de un congresista en el 2005 – en el mismo tiempo que en ese entonces el Senador Obama estaba tratando de matar una versión del senado de la misma propuesta de ley. Paul Ryan es la ultima adición a un grupo de consejeros de una reforma pro-inmigrante del circulo más cercano de Romney. Otros reformadores notables incluyen Sen. Mel Martínez (FL), Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (FL) Gov. Luis Fortuno (Puerto Rico), y ex Secretario de Comercio Carlos Gutiérrez, todos cuyos han sido proponentes mayores de reformas de inmigración sensibles.

Los Américanos están pidiendo para una corrección sobre el trayecto. “Esperanza y Cambio” ha fracasado y se ha convertido en “Exageración y culpa”; el país necesita un poco de descanso “R&R” ¡Romney y Ryan! Café con Leche Republicanos está orgulloso de apoyar el ticket de Romney/Ryan, y esperamos trabajar con nuestros compañeros Republicanos y también, con los Américanos de diferentes persuasiones políticas- para que sean elegidos este Noviembre. ¡Romney/Ryan 2012!

Tucson, Arizona – After watching the Arizona presidential debate, we’re very disappointed that three of the four candidates are clearly tone deaf on immigration. This does not bode well for the GOP in the general election, as their comments and clear lack of practical solutions will help Obama with New Americans. Immigration is not the #1 issue, but ranks a close #2 among Latinos, according to recent polls.

Of the four, only Newt Gingrich seemed to fully grasp that the root cause of our problem with illegal immigration is our broken legal immigration system, mentioning that Congress did not follow-up the 1986 immigration laws with sensible guest worker program reforms. Historically, whenever our immigration laws are in conflict with free market capitalism the result has been illegal immigration.

Mitt Romney claims Arizona’s e-verify law reduced undocumented workers, when in fact undocumented workers regularly circumvent e-verify by borrowing a real person’s name and social security number, rendering Romney’s statistics dubious. Romney and Santorum both praised the Joe Arpaio policing model, embodied as Arizona’s SB1070 law, introduced shortly after Arpaio was stripped of 287(g) street immigration enforcement authority due to pervasive racial profiling and not following program guidelines.

Arpaio’s policing model is a proven failure. Crime, particularly violent crime, has skyrocketed in areas patrolled by Arpaio due to massive diversion of resources to immigration enforcement, while crime rates fell everywhere else in Arizona. In one community alone, 432 sex crimes went uninvestigated due to lack of resources and leadership. The federal government already has the 287(g) program to empower state and local police to enforce immigration laws, and 287(g) is problem plagued, according to ICE’s Inspector General.

A recent DOJ investigation, using Arpaio’s own traffic stop records, found Latinos are 4-9 times more likely to be stopped by Sheriff’s deputies, and 20% of the stops lacked probable cause, in other words ‘driving while brown.’ Now Arpaio wants the rest of Arizona and nation to follow his failed policing model, throwing the civil rights of 50 million Hispanics ‘under the bus.’

The candidates claim Obama isn’t enforcing immigration laws, when in fact immigration law enforcement and deportations have dramatically stepped up, and our ‘deporter-in-chief’ sets new records for deportations. The immigration court system and detention facilities are already straining at capacity, so more immigration enforcement without addressing other aspects just worsens the problem, and damages whole sectors of our economy such as agriculture.

Ron Paul claims illegal immigration happens due to the welfare state, yet undocumented immigrants have been barred for decades from welfare, and numerous audits in multiple states consistantly failed to find a problem with undocumented immigrants collecting welfare. You’d think as a libertarian Paul would grasp that our current immigration system is a failed progressive solution, and free markets largely determine immigration levels, not government quotas. Ron Paul is clearly a ‘crypto-libertarian’ when it comes to immigration.

The best way to stop immigrants from crossing our borders seeking work in the U.S. is to provide them a line to stand in for visas. For most immigrants, there never was ‘a line to stand in’, but there are jobs here that most Americans don’t want. Newt Gingrich is the only one of the four who fully grasps the problem.

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