On June 21, 2012 former Florida Governor Jeb Bush addressed attendees of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) and made a statement that sent up a big red flag to me:
“…we must begin to focus on how we build capacity for the next generation to maintain the greatness of our country.”
One way to do that is supporting policies that drive existing American citizen & legal immigrant workers OUT of the workforce and subsequently replaces them with the “next generation”—- to cut labor costs.
But first the “next generation” must get on a pathway to US citizenship.
Not to worry—through the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) and the NALEO Educational Fund, Texas State Senator Sylvia Garcia, Board Director and former NALEO Board President are promoting Citizenship Assistance Workshops on the Greater Harris County area
One NALEO Citizenship Event was held earlier today April 4, 2015 and two will be held next Saturday April 11, 2015; one on the grounds of St. Charles Borromeo Church and another on Bellaire Blvd just west of Wilcrest.
Yep, Texas State Senator Sylvia Garcia and Jeb Bush —partners through their association with NALEO; a reason to be skeptical, yet again, of another Bush presidency.
NALEO is also on the City of Houston’s Advisory Council for the International Communities. They are the agency along with League of Women Voters that help get the #NewAmericans registered to vote at all of the “international community” events coordinated via the COH.
Those persons are here “legally” as opposed to “illegally”, so why the dislike that “legal” immigrants may get some help in getting their citizenship?
Makes at least this writer wonder if the hate is not for “illegals” but for people whose looks or culture may not meet some standards.
President Obama’s unlawful executive amnesty, announced in November 2014, proposes to give social security numbers and work permits to admittedly illegal immigrants, thereby facilitating their registration on the voting rolls. True the Vote has warned about this danger and is opposing it. Harris County GOP plans to send observers to these forums in order to guard against voter fraud.
Immigrants arriving from Meso-America during both the Dubya and Obama administrations have been overwhelmingly coming: (1) unlawfully, thereby undermining America’s rule of law, which is the foundation for our liberty and prosperity (so they undermine the very things that they claim to seek); (2) to collect welfare benefits, such as food stamps, housing assistance, free medical care, free public education, and even cell phones (the USDA has been in Mexico since 2004 promoting food stamps for all US residents regardless of legality), although they may be doing some law-skilled work as well (only low-skilled because about half do not even have a high-school education, in any language); and (3) in broken families, so that about half the babies are born out of wedlock, laying the groundwork for future failure and dependency.
Thus they are perfect Democrat voters: outlaws dependent on government and with broken families. As Tocqueville observed in 1835, they easily succumb to the temptation to vote for politicians who will provide them with a stipend, at the expense of their more productive neighbors.
Mr. Barrera, the concern about their looks and culture has a reasonable basis: they look like crooks and come from a failed culture.
Immigrants that arrive that were or are entitled to benefits, Cubans still are and Vietnamese were. There are other countries but not from the south of the border.
Ed this is not the proper article to go into a tirade about how you dislike “Mexican” looking people. I have yet to meet a person that can tell between a “legal” and and “illegal”.
So I guess I look like a crook to you, interesting at least we know where you stand.
Ed we could argue but you are endowed with the ability to ascertain what is true and not true.
Have a great day, may the hate be with you,.
Correct, Ed you are not endowed with the ability to ascertain what is true and not true. It could be the hate you have that blinds you.
“…we must begin to focus on how we build capacity for the next generation to maintain the greatness of our country.”
Until the GOP figures out how to actually do this we’re all doomed. The Dems sure as heck are never going to, so it rests with us. That this is a ‘red flag’ to some only betrays that they are in this for themselves and not for the betterment of either the party or society as a whole.
We can’t grow this party via exclusion and hate. But you can probably hold on to your little piece of it that way.
I don’t care where you come from. You might hail from China, or Mexico, Nigeria or El Salvador, Vietnam or Columbia, it really doesn’t matter. If you are here legally, if you obeyed the rules, filed the paperwork, waited in line, etc, then welcome! We’re glad to have you! I hope that you are as committed to the American dream as I am. I hope that you work hard, and are wildly successful. I’ve known a lot of immigrants and they have been some of the best friends and folks you could ask for. I hope that soon you will become a naturalized citizen and participate in the political process as well.
If you are here illegally (meaning you either came here illegally, or you came here on a visa that required you to leave at some point – and you didn’t), then please don’t take this the wrong way, but. . . . . please leave. Now. You need to go back to wherever you came from and try it again – legally. Yes, I know our immigration laws suck, they’re hard to understand, and it takes time (and often money) to navigate the myriad legal avenues, but immigrating to the US is a privilege that is worth the effort and frankly if you’re not willing to make the effort, then you should just stay home.
I’m not a big fan of people wandering into my home uninvited. Frankly, people that do that sort of thing tend to ignore other rules as well. So, please don’t ask me to accept you as a well meaning, hard-working, upstanding member of society when your first act in that society is to break the law. In the US we don’t get to break or ignore laws simply because we find them silly or stupid or inconvenient. Please understand, I don’t hate you, and I don’t want you to leave because of your race or country of origin, or religion, or anything else. I want you to leave because you’ve come here and disrespected my country and all of the millions of legal immigrants that have made the effort and paid the price to come here the right way and join our society. If you can’t understand that, then you probably wouldn’t fit in here anyway.
Right on!