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Grupo Control is coming to Arizona to help raise immigration reform awareness in light of the important comprehensive immigration reform discussions taking place in Washington D.C. right now.

Grupo Control llega a Phoenix a apoyar a la reforma migratoria!  La Campesina los invita a bailar la cumbiaaaaaaa toda la noche el sabado 29 de Junio!  ¿Quien se apunta?

NumbersUSA

Looks like another Cuban-American politician via Ted Cruz is offering his help and support to suppress Mexican-American voters here in the southwest.

I wonder how long it will take Cruz to figure out he is receiving support from one of the largest anti-immigrant organizations via Numbers USA?

From The Hill:

Cruz offers voting amendment after Supreme Court nixes Arizona law

The Supreme Court’s decision Monday to overturn an Arizona law requiring people to prove their U.S. citizenship before taking part in the federal “motor voter” registration program immediately reverberated in the Senate’s debate on immigration reform

The 7-2 ruling written by Justice Antonin Scalia prompted Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) to announce an amendment to the Senate bill that would permit states to require people to prove their citizenship before registering to vote.

“This hole in federal statutory law allows non-citizens to register and thereby encourages voter fraud,” Cruz wrote on his Facebook page. “I will file a commonsense amendment to the immigration bill that permits states to require I.D. before registering voters.”

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/306101-cruz-offers-voting-amendment-after-supremes-nix-arizona-law#ixzz2WaInETC6

According to NPR, the chairman of the Republican National Committee via Reince Priebus urged religious conservatives Saturday to support the GOP’s plans to expand.  He talked about the strategies his party must adopt in order to be successful on the national level.

Priebus spoke for 10 minutes this past Saturday on the third day of the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s “Road to Majority” conference at the J.W. Marriott Hotel in Washington, D.C. and not one time did he mention the term immigrant.

Reince Priebus  spoke about “going big and going bold” when he delivered his 10 minute speech, but I cannot understand why the word “immigrant” is so hard for him to utter.  He was able to mention outreach with regard to Asians and Hispanics within his speech, however, he can’t seem to address the immigration issue which is the very thing holding the GOP back from healthy “Hispanic”  outreach in the first place.

I’ve closely watched and written about the Chairman of the RNC before as it relates to HOW HE CAN EXPAND “HISPANIC” OUTREACH via support for legal immigration reform because this is an issue near and dear to the hearts of millions of Mexican-American families who make up the majority of the Latino population pie.  My message to Priebus is that if he cannot lead and be bold in uttering the term immigration within his speeches while taking this hot button issue head on … then he needs to get out of the political business and stop wasting our time with “outreach” rhetoric.

We’ve pointed the way, but he still seems afraid to take on the hot issue that matters to us the most — immigration.

I’m waiting, and I’m closely following the RNC Chair to see when he will take on the immigration issue and speak about legal immigration reform.  What is he afraid of?

1. If Republicans inject the Poison Pill to immigration reform, the RNC Chairman Reince Priebus is to blame for turning blind eye

2. Where is the RNC Chairman Reince Priebus’ leadership at when GOP Cuban-American Senators are at immigration philosophical odds?

3. Rep. John Boehner isn’t the leader of the Republican Party — Chairman Reince Priebus Is

4. Mexican-Americans to RNC Chairman Reince Priebus: Prove Your “Minority Outreach” Efforts In Asking Don Young To Resign

5. Where is RNC’s Reince Priebus’ “Hispanic” leadership at when Rep. Steve King’s bigotry becomes face of GOP?

A few Bible Verses on how to treat immigrants:

Leviticus 19:33-34 ESV / 382 helpful votes

“When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

Matthew 25:35 ESV / 169 helpful votes

For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me,

Exodus 22:21 ESV / 127 helpful votes

“You shall not wrong a sojourner or oppress him, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.

Malachi 3:5 ESV / 73 helpful votes

“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.

Deuteronomy 27:19 ESV / 61 helpful votes

“‘Cursed be anyone who perverts the justice due to the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

Zechariah 7:9-10 ESV / 46 helpful votes

“Thus says the Lord of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another, do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart.”

Jeremiah 7:5-7 ESV / 36 helpful votes

“For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly execute justice one with another, if you do not oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, or the widow, or shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not go after other gods to your own harm, then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave of old to your fathers forever.

Ezekiel 47:22 ESV / 29 helpful votes

You shall allot it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the sojourners who reside among you and have had children among you. They shall be to you as native-born children of Israel. With you they shall be allotted an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.

Hebrews 13:2 ESV / 27 helpful votes

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

Deuteronomy 26:5 ESV / 24 helpful votes

“And you shall make response before the Lord your God, ‘A wandering Aramean was my father. And he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, few in number, and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous.

Leviticus 25:35 ESV / 21 helpful votes

“If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he shall live with you.

Deuteronomy 10:18 ESV / 16 helpful votes

He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing.

Matthew 5:46-47 ESV / 14 helpful votes

For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?

What part of Love Thy Neighbor don’t you understand?

You lead many to believe you are a Christian, yet, you do not want to fix the clearly broken immigration system through legal means. On June 15, 2013, religious conservatives were asked to back GOP plans, yet, as the conference’s final speaker — you rejected calls for an immigration overhaul that includes a path to citizenship for immigrants in our Nation.

The Supremacy Clause of our United Constitution covers the immigration system, and this issue must be addressed legally and by our United States Senators and Congressman because it is under their jurisdiction.

In 2010, you were on a Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly show saying that the Judeo-Christian belief was the basis for American law and should continue to be used as a guiding force for creating future legislation.

Do you know what the Bible says about immigrants and our fellow neighbor?

Why the lack of your compassion towards immigrants?

Why aren’t you in support of LEGAL immigration reform when many of us know the immigration system is broken and needs to be addressed?

How can you claim to spread the love and gospel of Christ when you show no compassion for my people who don’t look like you?

If you cannot love others, then perhaps you ought to stop preaching you are Christian because your rhetoric is causing many to avoid church when you preach intolerant views under your Christian banner.

“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.”

(John 13:34)

Sincerely,
DeeDee Garcia Blase

Little do some of these Republicans know that they have been hijacked by the John Tanton Network and Numbers USA (restrictionist, protectionist anti-immigrant and anti-Mexican organizations).

From Crooks and Liars:

Lindsey Graham: Republicans ‘Are in a Demographic Death Spiral’

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said on Sunday that he favored former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-FL) as a 2016 presidential candidate, but no Republican could win unless comprehensive immigration reform was passed because the party was in a “demographic death spiral.”

“I think we’re going to have a political breakthrough, the Congress is going to pass immigration reform,” Graham told NBC host David Gregory. “I think we’re going to get plus 70 [votes in the Senate], I’ve never been more optimistic about it.”

Gregory wondered if Graham thought that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s (R) meeting last week with former President Bill Clinton (D) would boost his prospects for a 2016 presidential run.

“Bill Clinton doesn’t have a whole lot of sway, but he’s a popular figure,” Graham laughed. “The faith based groups were courted by leading candidates… I would suggest a guy like Jeb Bush would have a really good chance in 2016, a former governor or a governor. But you’ve got Marco [Rubio], you’ve got Paul Ryan. The good news is we’ve got a deep bench, and after eight years of President Obama’s economic policies and, quite frankly, foreign policy, people are going to be looking around.”

The South Carolina Republican added: “But if we don’t pass immigration reform, if we don’t get it off the table and in a reasonable, practical way, it doesn’t matter who you run in 2016. We’re in a demographic death spiral as a party. And the only way we can get back in good graces with the Hispanic community, in my view, is pass comprehensive immigration reform. If you don’t do that, it really doesn’t matter who we run in my view.” FULL STORY AND VIDEO>>>

Supreme Court strikes down Arizona law requiring proof of citizenship to vote

By Pete Williams and Erin McClam, NBC News

The Supreme Court on Monday struck down an Arizona law that requires people to submit proof of citizenship when they register to vote.

The vote was 7-2, with Justice Antonin Scalia writing for the court.

Several states said that such a law reduces voter fraud, but civil rights groups said it was an effort to discourage voting by legal immigrants. The case was argued and decided at a time when the country is considering how to change its immigration laws.

Citizenship is a requirement to vote in any federal election, and the federal registration form requires people to state, under penalty of perjury, that they are American citizens. States can use their own forms, but they must be equivalent to the federal form.

The Arizona law, known as Proposition 200, went further than the federal form by requiring applicants to provide proof of citizenship.

Challengers to the law argued that it put an extra burden on naturalized citizens. Using a naturalization document as proof would require an applicant to register in person, as opposed to through the mail, because federal law prohibits copying the document.

A federal appeals court said that Arizona had gone too far and essentially rejected the federal form. Arizona said it was not a rejection of the federal form any more than asking for ID at an airport is a rejection of a plane ticket.

Three other states — Alabama, Georgia and Kansas — have almost identical laws and joined Arizona in urging the court to uphold the additional requirements for proof of citizenship.

At an oral argument in March, Thomas Horne, a lawyer for Arizona, told the justices that the state was within its rights to ask for additional information beyond the simple federal form.

“It’s extremely inadequate,” Horne said. “It’s essentially an honor system. It does not do the job.”

“Well,” answered Justice Sonia Sotomayor, “that’s what the federal system decided was enough.”

The court’s conservatives appeared sympathetic to the Arizona side. Scalia said that federal law clearly empowers the states to take additional action to assess a potential voter’s eligibility.

“Under oath is not proof at all,” he said. “It’s just a statement.”

Patricia Millett, a lawyer for groups opposed to the law, countered: “Statements under oath in a criminal case are proof beyond a reasonable doubt” in criminal cases that result in execution.

“It’s a very serious oath,” she said.

Arizona is known for its tough stance on immigration. Last year, the Supreme Court struck down some key provisions of a state law meant to crack down on illegal immigration.

But it let stand the most controversial part — a requirement that police making traffic stops check the immigration status of anyone they suspect of being in the country illegally.

This story was originally published on Mon Jun 17, 2013 10:26 AM EDT

Most everyone will agree that the immigration system is broken, and immigration must be fixed at the federal level since the immigration law is protected under the Supremacy Clause of our United States Constitution.

In the coming weeks, we will indeed keep a watchful eye on the RNC to see if they really are in support of the economy.  As you may already know, legal immigration will enhance the economy and it appears the RNC leadership continues to be silent to that regard.

According to a recent New York Times article:

“Immigrants contribute more in tax and social contributions than they get in individual benefits,” said Jean-Christophe Dumont, the O.E.C.D. official who headed the study. “That’s why the net fiscal impact is mostly positive.”

Yet, the RNC leadership continues to be silent on the economic positive impact of legal immigration.

NBC News discusses the RNC’s silence in depth below:

Just three months ago, the Republican Party establishment couldn’t have been more resolute: Achieving immigration reform is essential to the GOP’s future political viability.

A post-election autopsy commissioned by the Republican National Committee insisted that the party “must embrace and champion comprehensive immigration reform” or else risk that the GOP would “continue to shrink to its core constituencies only.”

….

The RNC report, which was released three months ago, was striking in its urgency – in part because as a political committee, the RNC rarely stakes out policy positions. But, as the report noted, immigration reform has become a “litmus test” among Hispanic voters, an increasingly important voting bloc that went for President Barack Obama by 44 points over Mitt Romney last fall.

But the RNC and many other instruments of Republican politics have mostly sat quietly as a bruising intraparty fight plays out on Capitol Hill.

Many other politically savvy Republicans echoed the RNC report’s language on immigration when it debuted almost three months ago.

Since then? Silence, mostly. The RNC hasn’t aired any ads or posted any videos looking to give Republican lawmakers the cover they need to support the immigration reform law now before the Senate;

Most everyone will agree that the immigration system is broken, and immigration must be fixed at the federal level since the immigration law is protected under the Supremacy Clause of our United States Constitution.

The Republican Party has been hijacked by dixiecrat and unreasonable Tea Party extremists, and weak leadership will drive the entire Party into the ground.

Talk is cheap, Priebus.  If you really want “Hispanic” outreach … create ads and new messaging with regard to the positive economic impacts of legal immigration reform.

The Republican Party had it’s ass handed to them during the November 2012 Presidential elections, and it appears they are flirting with dangerous anti-immigrant moves for the upcoming 2014 and 2016 election seasons.

While “southern” dixiecrat-like Republicans put the GOP on a path to extinction, it appears Republican McCain has done the math with regard to the fastest growing demographic in our Nation via Mexican-Americans and is trying to support a legal fix to immigration in a bipartisanship fashion.

Shortly after November 2012 elections, McCain tweeted the below:

Most everyone will agree that the immigration system is broken, and immigration must be fixed at the federal level since the immigration law is protected under the Supremacy Clause of our United States Constitution.

Call your Senators now at toll free 866-834-8040 and tell them to OPPOSE Grassley 1195, Thune 1197, Vitter 1228.  These Amendments are triggers that are threatening to derail path to citizenship: Grassley 1195, Thune 1197, Vitter 1198.

US Senator Ted Cruz voted against “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” today [June 11, 2013].  In case you didn’t know Ted Cruz is the freshman US Senator from the Great State of Texas except he isn’t…from Texas, that is, he’s from Canada.  He’s an immigrant, born of immigrant parents from Cuba and somehow he was elected to the US Senate, with no prior legislative experience, from Texas!  How’d that happen?!

That question and I think it is a very good one will also answer this question: “Who really owns Ted Cruz?”  The answer, I suspect, can be found in his ardent opposition to “Comprehensive Immigration Reform.”  The evidence is that in the past during his work in the George W. Bush administration that he fully supported “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” and that it was he who actually prepared the Bush reform plan.  So what changed him into a hard line “enforcement only” solution advocate?  I think the answer lies back in “Who really owns Ted Cruz?”  But let’s check the other possibilities for a moment if you please.

Cruz represents Texas, a state rapidly growing in population and with a just as rapidly growing Latino population that now numbers just under 40% of the overall.  Most of them, like myself, are of Mexican extraction and most of them find the hard line “enforcement only” thinking as offensive and smacks of bigotry.  If Cruz thought of himself as a fellow Latino then he would also be offended also and support “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” but as already mentioned that is not the case so Latinos in Texas clearly don’t own Ted Cruz.  What about “economic conservatives?”

Mexican-American families taking note how Cruz voted against them and legal immigration reform.

Economists are largely in agreement that more immigration is better for an economy rather than less.  In fact, there are well known principles regarding population growth or birthrate that clearly state that if a nation or economy’s birthrate falls below 2.1 then that economy is doomed.  America’s birthrate, steadily declining for decades, is exactly 2.11.  So, America needs MORE immigration not less.  So, Ted Cruz cannot clearly be owned by “economic conservatives” because Cruz’s policies do not favor growth in our nation.  What about nativists and isolationists?

Who, after all, would want fewer or no more immigration and no more immigrants in America, a nation of immigrants?  Why, nativists, isolationists and bigots, that’s who!  Do they own Ted Cruz?!  Maybe, he is the “Poster boy for NumbersUSA.”

The entire anti-immigration effort as it has been presented these past few years originates in one man, Dr. John Tanton, MD.  He and some of his closest associates were all ejected from the liberal Sierra Club for touting the benefits of eugenics and euthanasia.  Tanton himself, a radical environmentalist, thought the best solution to the threatened environment in America was to have fewer people so he founded a Planned Parenthood clinic in his home state of Michigan.  Not satisfied with horribly killing babies he sought to stop the incoming “brown tide” of Latinos who to his horror have a prodigious birthrate.  He the set about founding several entities dedicated to ending immigration in America.  They decided to attack Latinos first and they with the help of a brilliant attorney, Kris Kobach, found the solution in SB-1070 and other bills like it.  Tanton and others founded FAIR, “Federation of American for Immigration Reform” which Tanton thought would be clever to cover his organization against immigration reform with a name that sounded in support thereof.  A close friend and associate of Tanton, Roy Beck, founded NumbersUSA with Tanton’s help.  Their effort, like FAIR’s, was to convince Republicans that “any” is “too many” and that “all of them will be Democrats anyway!”  And it worked!!  Republicans adopted immigration policies written by radical environmentalists from Planned Parenthood!  And!! Ted Cruz is their “Poster Boy!”

So, who really owns Ted Cruz?  He walks and talks like the nativists from the Tanton Network and he has clearly been supported by them, so…you do the math.

Lauro Antonio Garza, MPO

LatinoTalk

latinotalktexas@hotmail.com

The legal immigration reform debate will advance!

HALLELUJAH!

American Immigrant history was made today — Here is the list on how our U.S. Senators voted (We noticed Arizona’s Senator John McCain did not vote).

U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 113^th Congress – 1^st Session

as compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate

Vote Summary

XML U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 113^th Congress – 1^st Session

as compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate

Vote Summary

Alphabetical by Senator Name

Grouped By Vote Position