In addition to mindless “immigration enforcement is seen as ethnic-cleansing!” rants from Neal Boortz, the latest local example of “enforcing our immigration laws is not the answer” advice comes from a recent Cobb Chamber of Commerce Chairman’s Club briefing by political analyst Matt Towery.
He expressed alarm that election-night Florida exit polls of Cuban-Americans had Romney only five or six points ahead. “That’s significant trouble because that’s your most loyal Republican base,” Towery said. “If the party doesn’t deal with that, and you can’t do it by saying, ‘seal the borders and throw everybody out,’ because if you say that you’re saying to them, ‘You don’t belong in the United States of America.’ So I think there’s going to have to be a reinvention of how to deal with these issues without simply trying to appeal to the red meat of one core part of the Republican Party.”
The analogy is less than educated. And, as usual, Romney’s enforcement plank is misrepresented. Most Cuban-Americans do not support illegal immigration. Especially from Mexico, the source of most illegals. Also, like Boortz, Towery seems surprisingly ignorant on the reasonable and proven-successful attrition through enforcement (“self-deportation”) solution. Romney and most pro-enforcement Americans are simply demanding we enforce immigration laws that bring more than a million mostly poor, legal immigrants (which is far too many) each year.
Towery and the rest of the pack in the Republican Party, which is plotting another run at legalization by capitulating to Obama — and the Chamber — on amnesty-again, should try to understand that “Hispanics” are not a monolithic voting bloc. But they do mostly vote Democrat. Far too many voters support the candidate that promises the most entitlements. Hispanics included.
Nearly half the illegal aliens in the U.S. did not come here illegally. They overstayed temporary visas. For votes, should we ignore visa violations too? That is how most of the 9/11 terrorists were able to remain here.
Evidence available on Hispanic public opinion from an election eve ImpreMedia/Media Decisions (slogan: “Everything Latino politics”) poll makes clear that Hispanics are a fairly liberal voting group. Just 12 percent supported a cuts-only approach to deficit reduction. Only 25 percent want to repeal Obamacare. Only 31 percent said they’d be more likely to vote for a Republican who supports the DREAM Act. Memo to the GOP: Hispanics do not reward Republicans with majority support on amnesty.
In his run for re-election in 1984, Ronald Reagan promised legalization. And got 37 percent of the Hispanic vote. In 1988, just two years after the GOP delivered amnesty, Republican presidential candidate George H.W. Bush lost the Latino vote by 39 points. Even the super-Hispandering GOP Texan George W. Bush, who promised amnesty in his 2004 re-election campaign, got less than 40 percent of the Hispanic vote. Republican John McCain got 31 percent of the Latino vote despite his promise of amnesty “on day one” in 2008.
The record low was Bob Dole at 21 percent in 1996 against incumbent Bill Clinton, who had just implemented landmark, meaningful enforcement with “Operation Gatekeeper,” a massive project announced in 1994 “to restore integrity and safety to the nation’s busiest border” that secured the American/Mexican border in San Diego. Pro-enforcement Democrat Clinton won in a landslide with 72 percent of the Hispanic vote.
Documenting millions of resentful undocumented Democrats is a crack-pot method to elect a Republican president.
Maybe too “red meat” an observation?
D.A. King is president of the Cobb-based Dustin Inman Society.












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I remember King wring about KSU not allowing any of htis in their "immigration" conference last month;Other facts you don’t get from the mainstream media and likely won’t hear from the presenting “immigration researchers” over at the third-largest university in Georgia: Regardless of the fact that more than 20 million Americans — including immigrants — are out of work, the United States takes in more legal immigrants than any other nation, more than one million annually. Or that traditional levels of immigration are around 300,000 a year.
According to the most recent data from DHS, the country that sends the most legal immigrants to this country is Mexico, with nearly twice the number of souls each year as nation No. 2. What is nation No. 2 in sending replacement future citizens and voters? It’s communist China. No. 3? India. Then the Philippines, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Vietnam, South Korea, Columbia, Haiti, Iraq, Jamaica, El Salvador, Bangladesh, Burma, Pakistan, Iran, Peru, Ethiopia, then, at number 20, Canada.
Or that English is an optional language in Georgia and America
Nobody should say hasn't been trying to wake up America. Bless you Mr. King.
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The truth is the vast majority of us who have come to the United States from Cuba since 1959 would normally be considered "illegals," having overstayed tourist visas or entered the country without permission.
The reason we're not branded "illegals" is that to serve U.S. Cold War interests, the 1966 Cuban Adjustment Act makes pretty much any Cuban who comes to the United States illegally automatically "legal." It is a permanent amnesty that offers a 1-year "parole" (with a work permit) and then leads to permanent residence (the "green card") and five years later, citizenship.
Mr. King's assertion that most of us Cuban Americans don't support "illegal immigration" is meaningless. NOBODY "supports" illegal immigration or illegal anything else.
But that does not mean, in the case of Cubans, that we are for Arizona-style persecution of immigrants, which, unfortunately, DA King and his Republican allies have also foisted on this state.
For us Cubans it means, based on our Christian traditions and the values handed down to us by the greatest of Cuban patriots, José Martí, that we do not consider any human being to be illegal, and especially not someone from what Martí called "Nuestra América" (Our America).
Even the very conservative and Republican-aligned Cuban American National Foundation (CANF), the leading Cuban political lobby, has repeatedly opposed "self-deportation" legislation, including the 2005-2006 Sensenbrenner Bill, which had been approved by the House before the Senate deep-sixed it in the wake of a nationwide wave of protests by Latinos.
The 2012 Fox news exit poll confirms that for the first time in decades, Romney had less support than the Democrat presidential nominee among Florida Cuban-Americans, who used to vote overwhelmingly Republican.
That's the cluetrain. If the GOP does not take delivery, it might as well not run in the 2016 elections, when there will be 4 million more Latino voters than there were this time around.
I get the feeling Jose that if most illegals were coming from Norway and were conservatives that you would be marching to stop illegal imigration because it was against the law. And if the illegal aliens don't support illegal imigration, it is quite a shock to most of us who watch them march in Atlanta.
Youar answer is to ignore the law BECAUSE these people are Hispanic. Enforcement is persecution? Really? Go tell it to Mexico.
Some of us do appreciate all you do.
Americans are digging their own graves.
What else can we do now that we have proof Americans are sleeping zombies.
I am sad for my fellow Americans & this country.
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." A. Einstein.
"In his run for re-election in 1984, Ronald Reagan promised legalization. And got 37 percent of the Hispanic vote. In 1988, just two years after the GOP delivered amnesty, Republican presidential candidate George H.W. Bush lost the Latino vote by 39 points. Even the super-Hispandering GOP Texan George W. Bush, who promised amnesty in his 2004 re-election campaign, got less than 40 percent of the Hispanic vote. Republican John McCain got 31 percent of the Latino vote despite his promise of amnesty “on day one” in 2008.
The record low was Bob Dole at 21 percent in 1996 against incumbent Bill Clinton, who had just implemented landmark, meaningful enforcement with “Operation Gatekeeper,” a massive project announced in 1994 “to restore integrity and safety to the nation’s busiest border” that secured the American/Mexican border in San Diego. Pro-enforcement Democrat Clinton won in a landslide with 72 percent of the Hispanic vote.
Documenting millions of resentful undocumented Democrats is a crack-pot method to elect a Republican president."
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An impreMedia-Latino Decisions poll released Tuesday estimated that Obama had won 75 percent of Latino voters nationwide, which is very close to the most recent exit polls that find Latino support at around 72 percent -- higher than in 2008.
Foley - don't you wish you knew half as much about ANYTHING as King does about immigration?
THANK YOU Mr. King. Matt Towery is exactly what I have always thought he was. Boortz is worse. I hear that Hannity is also in on waving the flag of surrender. Heath Garret never fooled me. Ever.
You are the ever shrinking demographic with an inflexible mindset. OWM
Let's deport the lazy people!
BTW, we need a third party and term limits on congress.