SOMOS REPUBLICANS Florida Leader interview with MEGA TV regarding Super Tuesday results

SOMOS REPUBLICANS Florida Leader pulling for Newt Gingrich. If Newt Gingrich doesn’t win, SOMOS REPUBLICANS will tell our grassroots members and volunteers to write in Ronald Reagan.

SOMOS REPUBLICANS Official Statement based on Florida GOP primary election results

For Immediate Release
February 1, 2012

Contact: Communications
info@somosrepublicans.com

FLORIDA 2012 PRIMARY ELECTION STATEMENT

We were hoping our Cuban American and Puerto Rican brothers would disregard their leadership lead to support anti-immigrant Mitt Romney. The Florida primary results show the total disregard a good majority of Cuban Americans have for conservative Mexican Americans, South Americans, and Central Americans who aspire, like Cuban Americans, to be an integral part of this country. This vote shows the lack of solidarity with the majority of Latinos, even while Cuban Americans and Puerto Rican serve themselves with the big spoon when it is time to distribute the political and economic/business opportunities/leverage generated by the critical mass of Latinos, mainly Mexican Americans (65%), but also Central Americans and South Americans. These latter don’t have the same opportunities of citizenship that Cuban Americans and Puerto Ricans enjoy, and thus, in general, Cuban American put aside the priorities of the majority of Latinos. For a long time we have put the Latino agenda in the hands of Cuban Americans, and look where we are. It has been a tremendous disaster; we could not be more despised and disadvantaged in this country, in spite of our numbers and great contributions.

The overwhelming vote of Cuban Americans and Puerto Ricans for anti-Latino immigrant Mitt Romney should open the eyes of conservative Latino Republicans not belonging to the Cuban and Puerto Rican communities, to the fact that we do not count on their support for our political, economic/business agenda, and thus, they should not count on us, except on a previously negotiated basis on which we, Mexican Americans, hold our votes and power in the hands of our own leadership. For this, we must accelerate the pace to build this Mexican American leadership that this major ethnic group needs to hold to represent the interests of its constituency within the Republican party. No more leaving our issues in the hands of other “Latinos”. If the Republican Party wants the votes of the largest Latino Group, Mexican Americans, and its brothers Central and South Americans, they will need to negotiate with us, not with Cuban or Puerto Rican Americans. In Light of the Cuban American leadership support for anti Latino immigrant Mitt Romney (“illegal immigrant” is a code word for Latino immigrants, and Cuban Americans fool themselves if they think the Latino haters do not put us all in the same basket – as as small sample, you just had to hear the expressions of disgust within the Georgia Republican party when Mel Martinez was head of the RNC; Latino students at GA state reported that a professor coming from Florida said in class, in front of all the students, that Miami was a third world country infested with Cubans).

We welcome the friendship and brotherhood of those few Cubans and Puerto Ricans who embrace us, and who will accept our rightful leadership role. The Republican Party should know, and we will make it evident through our organization and future coalitions, that we will not align with Cuban Americans and Puerto Ricans any longer, except when there are clear mutual interests, and that Mexican Americans no longer consider themselves represented within the party by Cuban Americans and Puerto Ricans. If the Republican Party wants the Mexican American community’s support, the by far largest Latino group, they need to have one of us, Mexican American.

Republicans must acknowledge that if Mexican Americans are marginalized, we will not fulfill our potential as a key pillar to America’s economic and political future in the world. America will be poor if Mexican Americans are poor and powerless. We will not allow this. To the innuendo and racist rhetoric through the construction of code-alkaloid language such as “illegals” and “Anchor babies”, we will respond with harder work, greater love for this country, and greater organization. We will not give up the Republican Party because these are our values, but we will support only those who embrace us. We will identify and clearly explain to Republicans that they have substituted Republican values for hate, and that the “hate coalition” which has taken over the party uses hate to hide and distract from the fact that they are big spenders, big government, big brother policy. They use a minor civil violation to dehumanize “some” immigrants. Those who call themselves Reaganites do not belong in the immigrant hate coalition. We Mexican Americans are more than willing to work hard to contribute to build the bright future of this country, and warmly embrace all of those who embrace us. Likewise, we will be well aware of those who do not.

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Hispanic Republicans to Florida Senator Marco Rubio — Stay out, you are just as anti-DREAM Act as Romney

CNN BREAKING NEWS:  Senator Marco Rubio is telling Newt Gingrich campaign to pull anti-immigrant Romney ads.

We suspect it is because Marco Rubio wants Romney to make him his Vice Presidential Candidate when every Mexican-American in the southwest and the midwest knows that Marco Rubio supported Arizona’s harsh anti-immigrant law and Rubio also does not support the DREAM Act. Rubio is not in support of immigrants and the people, and believe Rubio is vying for the VP spot.

Sorry, Mr. Rubio, but Mitt Romney IS anti-immigrant and IS anti-Latino when he promised to veto the DREAM Act.  What business does Rubio have in meddling in primary races?  Rubio of Florida is going to end up being a one-term junior Senator. Our Puerto Rican friends will ensure it.

Marco Rubio has the audacity to attack Newt for being a progressive when it was Mitt Romney via RomneyCare who started ObamaCare?  The hypocrisy of Rubio is disgusting.

Here Rubio’s hypocrisy here.

SOMOS REPUBLICANS (Largest Hispanic GOP group in nation) announces Florida Leadership

We are happy to announce our new spokesperson and leader for the State of Florida.

We want to take a moment to congratulate Cynthia Arevalo who resides near Miami, Florida.  She is a well respected lawyer and immigrant advocate.  She supports Newt Gingrich for 2012.   We know and understand how crucial the Latino vote is in Florida.

Javier Manjarres (Tea Party blogger) says amnesty for some but not for all.

Javier Manjarres is a mere blogger at Shark Tank world in Florida.   He is a tea party extremist that is not happy with SOMOS REPUBLICANS (SR) because SR has been a strong advocate of legal immigration reform. We believe he is envious that SR managed to become the largest Hispanic Republican group in the nation during a difficult era that is anti-immigrant / anti-Latino. He is livid that we asked Marco Rubio to take back his anti-immigrant stances.  Marco Rubio will not support the DREAM Act.

Javier claims we are for amnesty, however, he is silent with regard to Cuban-Americans enjoying their unique amnesty privilege via the the Cuban Adjustment Act (wet-foot/dry-foot policy). Living in Florida, will Javier take a position to the CAA and the one year of entitlements?  We believe Javier and several mainstream Republicans are unaware of this unique amnesty afforded to Cuban-Americans, and it is hypocritical for Marco Rubio to take an enforcement only position when his own family was given this compassion.  Cuban-Americans who come here are on probation for about a year, and they receive government entitlements for that year, however,  SR is not asking for entitlements as part of the solution to fixing the broken immigration system.

Immediately Manjarres loses credibility because he believes we are for amnesty.  Our position paper clearly dictates otherwise with our 12 steps to border security and legal immigration reform. In addition with his untruths with regard to calling us an amnesty group, he makes the assumption that moveon.org/Soros will take over SOMOS REPUBLICANS soon, and this is his desperate attempt to paint the largest Latino Republican group in the nation as “phony”.

Furthermore, Javier doesn’t know a thing about Latino Republican outreach.  If he was truly reaching out to the Latino people in an effort to win their hearts, then he would be involved at the immigration rallies.  Fact is: He can’t reach out to Latinos at immigration rallies because he would be kicked out and booed.

According to the WSJ, the immigration issue is the number one issue for Latinos.  Javier would rather reach out to CPAC, and other tea party extremists such as Ann Coulter (on the record for referring to Muslims as “towel heads”), and Allen West where he wanted to hire a radio show host who is on the record for advocating the “hanging of illegal immigrants”.  [See Javier's other "Shark Tank" blog here where you will see tea party supporters listed on his main page.]

Javier Manjarres is upset with us because he is a tea party and Marco Rubio apologist and SR has taken a position against Tea Party restrictionist who claim to be for capitalism but really are not when it comes to the issue of immigration and solving the clearly broken system.

SR indeed was interviewed by UNIVISION which you can see here, and you will find that we explain to the UNIVISION audience that Marco Rubio was wrong to attribute the drug violence to “just Mexico” when he supported a harsh anti-immigrant law in Arizona…even though clearly his own brother-in-law was involved in one of the largest drug trafficking schemes and the death of a federal informant who was dismembered in Florida — a non-border state.  We asked Marco Rubio to retract his support for Arizona’s SB 1070 law, and his anti-immigrant enforcement only policy stance.  We fully explain our position here.

CARLOS GIMENEZ — Feeding Off Taxpayers

CARLOS GIMENEZ IS LIVING LARGE. FEEDING OFF THE GOVERNMENT TROUGH.

From Miami, Florida – We’ll sue if Florida passes Arizona-style law

From the Palm Beach Post:

By LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ

The Associated Press

Posted: 6:03 p.m. Thursday, April 21, 2011

The Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center along with the American Civil Liberties Union plan sue the state immediately if the Legislature passes either of two pending immigration bills in the House and the Senate, the nonprofit said Thursday.

Immigrant advocates say components of the House bill closely resemble the very ones in Arizona’s new immigration law that a federal appeals court recently upheld were unconstitutional.

Florida’s House bill would authorize local law enforcement to check out the immigration status of anyone under investigation, even if the individual had never been arrested. And it would allow local officers to check the immigration status whenever they suspected someone is in the country illegally. The House bill also requires employers to use the federal government’s E-Verify work authorization program.

“Some of our legislators are trying to push forward bills that would have devastating effects on the state,” said executive director Cheryl Little during a news conference with community leaders and the ACLU. She said it will make immigrants already fearful of law enforcement more afraid of cooperating with local officials.

“If one of these bills becomes law, FIAC is ready to sue,” she added.

The Senate bill is more limited, but it still requires local law enforcement check the immigration status of inmates, encouraging them to go beyond simply using federal criminal and immigration databases. The Senate bill would also allow businesses to let employees use a driver’s license as proof they are authorized to work, instead of the E-Verify program.

Supporters of stronger immigration enforcement say the Senate version of the bill is worthless because driver licenses from other states are too easy to forge and won’t prove work eligibility.

The Advocacy Center’s attorneys said they were dumbfounded that Florida Rep. William Snyder, R-Stuart, would propose a bill that includes provisions so close to the Arizona measures that have been blocked.

Attorney Tania Galloni added that the Florida House provision for allowing state criminal judges to decide whether individuals are in the country illegally for sentencing purposes directly usurps federal immigration judges’ authority and would also likely be held unconstitutional.

Manny Fernandez, a Miami-based attorney and member of the group Somos Republicanos, which fought the legislation in Arizona, described the House bill as a thinly veiled effort to energize a core group of voters whom he said do not represent the majority of the state — nor even the state’s Republican Party.

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/state/activists-well-sue-if-fla-passes-ariz-style-1423867.html?printArticle=y