The GOP: The amnesiatic party
January 12, 2012 by Lauro Garza
Filed under Blog & Opinions, Latino Talk Texas, Somos Republicans Picture Gallery
This year’s GOP is lost, blindfolded and searching but it doesn’t remember 
what it needs or what it wants nor how to find it. Sad. Very sad. But not only are they amnesiatic they are also arrogant because we, Somos Republicans, approached them at nearly every turn during the past few years to tell them just what they needed. They sneered and turned their bigoted noses up at our suggestions: court the Latino vote with “Comprehensive Immigration Reform.” It’s the only way to win.
In the past I have written how the Party seems to have answered the question: “How far have we come from George W. Bush?” with a resounding, “Not far enough!!” That is more evident than ever as we examine the results of the polling of Iowa and New Hampshire. Clearly the election process is not over but this current behavior is very indicative of my assertion: “The GOP is amnesiatic….and does not remember who it is or what it stands for.”
Case in point: former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. Not only has he been in campaign mode since before the last election that he lost so soundly, he has also changed his very image, one wonders how, so liberal as to be considered a moderate Democrat to hard line anti-establishment and anti-immigration hard line conservative Republican (never mind that his own father was a Mexican immigrant). Somehow, I doubt the transformation when especially he has already demonstrated with fervency to be anti-Pro-Life and Pro-big government not unlike our pal, Barry Obama…you know, the socialist in the White House. People in the GOP just can’t seem to remember those simple matters from only a few years ago.
Another example is our good friend from Texas, Dr. Ron Paul: the Crypto-libertarian. Ron Paul is so weird and radical that although he has continuously running for President, literally, for decades, he has never won a primary race. Until now. He actually came in second to Romney in New Hampshire. Imagine that: the Crypto-Democrat and the Crypto-Libertarian won in a Republican primary? How could this have happened? Simple, they’ve both been running for years and years and the GOP either remembers nothing of what they really are or that GOP voters remember nothing of who they really are and what they believe.
It seems from these two, the crypto-Democrat and the Crypto-libertarian, that the GOP is not looking at who’s who or what’s what but who’s in the lead or “Who’s on second!!”
What about t
he other more conservative republican-like Republicans? Gingrich, Perry and Santorum?
Santorum is a Republican and understands the reason morality is important in both our Constitution and our society but fails to articulate that. He’s also a big spender, not a cost cutter, and although he’s a second generation American seems hell bent on making sure you never become an American too.
Perry, a former favorite of mine, although a smart guy, has come off like an 
idiot but more importantly is dishonest with his friends, takes credit for good things he didn’t do and does not under either the 10th Amendment nor the nature of our federal government and is ill suited to run it. Further, when Perry question “the Heart” of Romney on the merits of the “Dream Act” in Texas, Perry withered like a flower while Romney slammed Perry like he’d just stolen his lunch money. Perry was our only hope.
Then came Newt Gingrich. The former House speaker and architect of the Republican revolution in the 1990′s is a History professor and surely he’d remember the past? Right? Gingrich impressed me as taking the side of “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” in America and stood up for it although it might cost him politically. I admired that but it has cost him. Further, he made the mistake of endorsing the unconstitutional idea of an official language in America. Something a real Republican would never do as it would be like surrendering the 2nd amendment too. Gingrich knows the truth about these other men I’ve described but his punches seem more like critiques of their term papers rather than solid rebukes of their clear deviations from Republican ideals and principals. When will the professor learn?
In the end, the GOP searches and searches and finds what it thinks it needs: a loser. And our, Barry Obama, wins again and that is a serious problem for me. The GOP is so lost and searching for charismatic leadership that someone like Bill Clinton, a governor from a southern state who once was Pro-Life and has a long history of adultery could easily win the GOP nomination, so long as no one remembers. Imagine that: Obama vs Clinton II, the re-match. Hillary would hate being left out. Don’t tell Bill, though, ’cause he’d really do it….run as a Republican, I mean, ….Romney does.
Lauro Antonio Garza, MPO
Texas state director, Somos Republicans
January 11, 2012
Texas Leader, Lauro Garza, explains why he is leaving the GOP
October 21, 2011 by Lauro Garza
Filed under Latino Talk Texas
Please listen to the radio podcast here. See story below:
Texas Latino Leader Leaves Republican Party
KATY, Texas – The Texas director of the nation’s largest Latino Republican organization abandoned his party this week.
Lauro Garza remains a staunch conservative, but says he’s fed up with what he calls a hostile “Tea Party nativism” toward which the GOP has been tilting in recent years – at the expense of immigrants and Latinos.
“The party has left us behind. Our credibility among Latinos is strained because we identify with the Republican Party. Saying it’s strained is putting it mildly.”
Garza remains state leader of Somos Republicans, and says the future direction of the organization still is being worked out. While he does not excuse illegal immigration or advocate open borders with Mexico, he says politicians are guilty of exploiting ungrounded fears when they suggest comprehensive immigration reform must wait until the border is safe and sealed. On the contrary, Garza insists, reform is essential for taking the load off the border.
Garza has criticized his now-former party in recent months. He took Gov. Rick Perry to task for moving away from a relatively immigration-friendly agenda. But Garza says this week’s reaction to comments from a leading GOP presidential candidate was the last straw. Herman Cain had suggested building a lethal electric border fence. Although he later insisted he was joking, Cain continued to stand by his general concept.
“The comment was met with cheers, not with laughter. Further, it’s reprehensible that the Republican Party and the other candidates have let him get away with it, and for the news media to let him get away with this stupid explanation that it was a joke. It’s not a joke.”
Garza believes Latinos tend toward conservatism, and thus should naturally be drawn to the GOP. However, he says the party is driving them away in search of short-term political gain. While Republicans are openly hostile, he says, Democrats are apathetic and weak when it comes to immigration issues.
Cristina Parker, media director for the non-partisan Border Network for Human Rights, agrees, saying few leaders are talking honestly about what needs to happen.
“Immigration reform is absolutely needed in this country, and, unfortunately, we’re at a stalemate – with the Republicans catering to nativism, and the Democrats are no better. No one’s willing to step up and get the hard work done.”
Peter Malof, Public News Service – TX
Lauro Garza on Rick Perry Presidential Website Regarding Why He Left GOP
October 21, 2011 by Lauro Garza
Filed under Latino Talk Texas
Prominent Texas Latino leader leaves Republican Party
After threatening to abandon the GOP earlier this week because of the anti-immigrant sentiments expressed by Tea Party members and this bunch of presidential candidates, a Texas Republican leader has left his party.
Lauro Garza, who led the nation’s largest conservative Latino group, Somos Republicans, blamed politicians, especially Herman Cain, of fear-mongering over the immigration issue and likened himself to Ronald Reagan, who left the Democratic Party when he felt like it betrayed him.
Garza, of Katy, posted the news along with a picture of his cut-up Republican of Texas card on the Somo Republicans site.
“The party has left us behind. Our credibility among Latinos is strained because we identify with the Republican Party,” said Garza, of Katy, in a Public News Service story. “Saying it’s strained is putting it mildly.”
He described the current state of the party as “radical and unreasonable” and called Herman Cain a “hateful bigot” for his electrified border fence idea.
From the story:
Garza remains state leader of Somos Republicans, and says the future direction of the organization still is being worked out. While he does not excuse illegal immigration or advocate open borders with Mexico, he says politicians are guilty of exploiting ungrounded fears when they suggest comprehensive immigration reform must wait until the border is safe and sealed. On the contrary, Garza insists, reform is essential for taking the load off the border.
Garza has criticized his now-former party in recent months. He took Gov. Rick Perry to task for moving away from a relatively immigration-friendly agenda. But Garza says this week’s reaction to comments from a leading GOP presidential candidate was the last straw. Herman Cain had suggested building a lethal electric border fence. Although he later insisted he was joking, Cain continued to stand by his general concept.
Garza believes Latinos tend toward conservatism, and thus should naturally be drawn to the GOP.
Latino GOP Leader Leaves Republican Party After Herman Cain Advocates Death of Latin Immigrants and RNC Failure to Lead in Moderating Anti-Latino Rhetoric
October 17, 2011 by admin
Filed under Latino Talk Texas, News affecting the 2012 Elections
The Republican Party lost a long life Republican, Lauro Garza, who is a Texas Latino GOP leader due to the continued betrayal of the Republican Party. The Republican National Committee lacks the spine to moderate the extremism coming from 2012 Presidential elections. However, note how these same GOP Presidential elections will not touch the “Church of Latter Day Saints / Mormon” issue. Obviously marching orders were given to not attack members of the LDS Church, HOWEVER, marching orders should have been given a long time ago to do away with referring to Latino / Hispanic immigrants as roaches, rats, cows, shooting them like feral hogs, and now we see Herman Cain advocating the death of Latino immigrants.
FOR THE CRITICS: Lauro is a long life Republican, staunch advocate of 2nd amendment rights and hunts religiously. He is one of the most pro life activists ever known to man in Tejano history. He is a conservative and like him, I believe the Republican Party ought to be disciplined for allowing jokes and extreme anti-Latino rhetoric to take place. 2012 will be a cleansing period for the Republican Party, and we hope that Republican Senate Candidates who live in high Hispanic populated states will take a tone different than the tone Herman Cain has taken.
Below is a wealth of podcast and radio program information that proves how he fought for pro life and other Republican values:
Conservative LatinoTalk Radio
United States, EnglishPolitics Conservative
- http://www.latinotalktexas.com/
- http://www.twitter.com/LatinoTalk
- http://www.facebook.com/pages/LatinoTalk-Fan-Page/226653731692
We all know the outrage we would hear if anyone made any jokes about the Jewish community and the Hitler camps. Equally heinous would be any jokes and remarks made of slave lynchings and hangings, therefore, the Latino will NOT support support any candidate who has a history of demonizing the immigrants. So far, Mitt Romney, Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain and Rick Santorum will be remembered as tools who are trying to get popular in demonizing Latinos and immigrants.
From the Texas Director of SOMOS REPUBLICANS who is leaving the Republican party due to lack of Republican leadership in moderating extreme anti-Latino rhetoric:
GOP leadership: Beyond Reprehensible
How much distance has been travelled since President George W. Bush left office? To us at Somos Republicans, the answer is, “Way too much!” We fear that for most of the Republican Party, the answer is, “Not far enough!!”
Today, we find the Republican Party has strayed from its roots and its founding principals so far that they can no longer be seen. We saw this yesterday, in the glare of broad daylight, when a leading presidential candidate, Herman Cain, not once, but twice, advocated for the murder of innocent people and that was met with cheers!Somos Republicans, America’s largest organization of conservative Hispanics, was alone in its criticism of this loud mouth hateful bigot. He says he was “joking.” Nobody here is laughing! The fact the GOP allows and applauds such outrageous thoughts is beyond reprehensible.
To us, the idea of allegedly “Pro-Life” people shouting for the un-Constitutional use of deadly force is unbelievable. Then, too, we shouldn’t be surprised since Republican leaders have been advocating for the nullification of the American Constitution in states like Arizona, Georgia and now Alabama. When did Republicans, once synonymous with “conservative,” become so liberal as to attack their very own Bill of Rights in the 4th and 14th Amendments?!
Where is Republican leadership? Where has the guiding principal of “Morality” gone?! If the Republican Party cannot or will not rebuke this hateful bigot and others like him who wear the mantle of “Republican” then perhaps the time has come for a rebuke of the Party itself!
Ronald Reagan left the Democrat Party saying they had left him. Perhaps, I shall do the same because the Republican Party has become radical and unreasonable. President Reagan must be tumbling in his grave!
Lauro Antonio Garza,MPO Somos Republicans, Texas State Director October 16, 2011
Long Life Texas Republican Leaves Republican Party Due to Herman Cain advocating death of immigrants.
A message to all 2012 GOP Presidential Candidates on Latino Key Swing Vote
July 21, 2011 by Lauro Garza
Filed under Blog & Opinions, Latino Talk Texas, News affecting the 2012 Elections, Press Releases
As the 2012 election season approaches, we would like Republican candidates to know the Hispanic voting block can be salvaged and we know how. It seems to us, at Somos Republicans, the GOP leadership in states and national organizations have been courting the wrong voters. We felt we were on the verge of a breakthrough a few years ago when Arizona Senator John McCain, came from behind to win the Republican presidential nomination with a platform that included “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” while his losing competitors had all taken ever harder lines on immigration which insulted us personally and certainly drove away potential Latino voters in droves!
President George W. Bush won more Latino votes than any other major Republican candidate. He realized, as we do, that Latinos are naturally conservative. And since the American Latino population is the fastest growing segment of the population, we hoped the GOP would attempt to harness that incredible new voting block but they didn’t!
Instead they allied themselves, much to our dismay and occasional disgust, with isolationists, nativists, and a few verbose anti-Latino bigots. Republicans became so hated among Latinos that when we attended public functions we were treated as though we arrived with a dead skunk!
In the past education and school choice was the lead topic among Latinos in America. Today, immigration is the primary issue because it’s personal. Although I’m not an immigrant, I look like one and the unconstitutional laws proposed and passed in some states are deliberately designed to harass all Latinos, including me and my family, so much they will, as the environmentalist radicals at FAIR described it, “self deport.” For immigrants and citizens alike, that is very personal!
But the situation can be saved. Because our economy needs more, not less, immigration, Somos Republicans supports all efforts at Comprehensive Immigration Reform and opposes all unconstitutional efforts at immigration enforcement. We find it unconscionable that any Republican would find cause to attack the Bill of Rights or the Constitution in any way! At Somos Republicans, we are appalled and evidently alone in our quest to defend the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
The objective of this commentary is to expose the fact that not all Hispanic Republican groups actually have the best interest of Latinos in mind. In fact, we have found that the other groups are best classified as “sell outs” or “vendidos!” We hope Republican candidates will not seek out the dubious guidance of groups like that but instead come to us, Somos Republicans, because we do have the best interest of American Latinos in mind. We believe that is also the best interest of the Republican Party as well.
According to the Pew Hispanic Center, there are nearly 50 million Latinos in America and more than 80% of them support Comprehensive Immigration Reform. A similar percentage oppose Arizona’s unconstitutional SB 1070 and similar state level immigration enforcement measures. Somos Republicans, based in Arizona but with chapters across the nation, has thousands of members who, like the rest of Latino America, are naturally conservative, Pro-Life and determined to defend the Constitution from all attackers. Therefore, we support Comprehensive Immigration Reform and the Dream Act and always have. We; furthermore, denounce Arizona’s SB 1070 and all the variations of that travesty.
If you are Republican running for office in 2012 and you want to know what American Latinos think and you want to reach them, come to Somos Republicans. We have valuable insight you will find no where else. We’ll listen too but we’re not fools and we have long memories.
Here are some groups whose leaders are only interested in their own individual advancement and not that of the American Latino. The RNHA is small and appears to support SB 1070. LNRC is a national group based in California but has no real operation except in Texas. LNRC quickly proclaimed SB 1070 to be good policy after it was signed and the Texas contingent has defended it and a similar “sanctuary cities bill” in Texas this year. ALRA in Arizona is also very small and fervently supports SB 1070 as millions of Latinos across America denounce it. There are other groups but we do not believe any of them actually have the pulse of Latino America as easily accessible to you Republican candidates as we, at Somos Republicans, do.
Again, if you are Republican, and you are smart or forthright or, better yet, both, then you’ll come to us, Somos Republicans, to learn the truth and make good things happen for America, Americans and the American Latino. What do we want? We want only the satisfaction of knowing that we did what was right for America, our home.
Contact:
Somosrepublicans.com
281-236-8294
July 20, 2011
National Latino GOP Group permanently puts Senator Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz on unfriendly to Latino List
June 16, 2011 by admin
Filed under Latino Talk Texas, Press Releases
National Latino GOP Group permanently puts Senator Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz on unfriendly to Latino List
Houston, TX – Cuban-Americans Sen. Marco Rubio and candidate Ted Cruz will permanently wind up on the SOMOS REPUBLICANS unfriendly to Latino list because of their support for enforcement only policies against immigrants. They fail to recognize the privilege Cuban immigrants have over other immigrants that come here to achieve the American dream. Furthermore, both Rubio and Cruz are being supported by the same anti-immigrant crowd that supported JD Hayworth and both have been praised by extremist radio show host Mark Levin. We believe GOP Cuban-Americans such as Rubio and Cruz are being used as pawns by the nativist, anti-immigrant and Tea Party crowd.
Florida is experiencing fast growing emerging groups from Columbia, Central America, and etc. Indians, Columbians, Peruvians, Central Americans, Mexicans, Irishmen, Canadians, Asians, Russians, and etc. do not have the privilege of the wet-foot-dry-foot policy as they try to flee their government to pursue the American dream. Most Cubans are able to receive federal assistance provided by tax payers for a short time once their foot touches American soil, and then they are on parole for one year before becoming a permanent resident. Unfortunately, both Rubio and Cruz are also putting 30,000 Cuban families that have slipped through the cracks and they are also at risk with regard to enforcement only policies.
Rubio and Cruz are dangerously flirting with protectionist and isolationist policies that are not embraced by Capitalistic free market ideals. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg recently stated that it is national suicide if the U.S. does not adopt an immigrant-friendly policy that shuts the doors on future entrepreneurs. Several immigrants from other parts of the world do not have the Cuban wet-foot-dry-foot privilege as they seek to flee their governments.
Furthermore, restrictionist policies will harm the economy and destroy middle income jobs to Native Americans. Rubio is already experiencing 11.5% unemployment which is higher than the national average of 9.1%, and Florida cannot afford to lose more middle income jobs with his immigration scares. CATO Institute writes:
“According to estimates from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, there are 3.1 related jobs off the farm for every job on the farm. Eliminating the on-farm jobs would put at risk many more jobs paying middle-class wages and employing native-born American workers.”
If Texas candidate Ted Cruz continues to go on his protectionism path, then this will be Democratic retired General Ricardo Sanchez’s Texas senate campaign to lose. It is in the best interest of the Republican Party to recognize that the fastest growing group in the nation is Mexican-American. In Texas alone 80% of Latins are Mexican-American. If the GOP is to regain the south Texas districts that recently went to the Democrats, a Ted Cruz and Rep. Lamar Smith approach to immigration is not the solution. It is not right to bash immigrants to save political necks. Cruz and Smith views are not the same as former President George W. Bush’s views when he warned us about nativism and protectionism.
Don’t Mess With Tejanos on Sanctuary City Bill – Open Letter to Gov. Rick Perry
June 15, 2011 by admin
Filed under Latino Talk Texas, Press Releases
Open letter to Rick Perry
June 16, 2011
The Honorable Rick Perry
Governor of the Great State of Texas
Office of the Governor
P.O. Box 12428 Austin, Texas 78711-2428
Re: Please stop SB 9, the “Sanctuary City Bill
Greeting Governor Perry:
About this same time last year Governor Perry, you were in a tough race to maintain your office. An ambitious fellow Republican sought to unseat you but I defended you. I defended you, in writing and on my internet talk show, although you have made some serious mistakes. SB 9 is another serious mistake! I defended you and I have defended the Republican Party using your career as a keen example of how a Republican should be.
During the Texas Republican Convention I attended your “Hispanic breakfast” and I was inspired by your understanding of Latino culture, Texas history being mostly Hispanic actually and a remarkable understanding of the needs, desires and the values of Texas Latinos. Using your left and right hands to illustrate, you indicated that Latino values and Republican values are inherently interchangeable! That is why I am a Republican despite the criticism and rebukes of my relatives. 
Later in the day, I meet you for lunch and during our discussions you mentioned how clearly you understood that immigration is a federal matter. You reiterated that very point at your inauguration in January 2011 which I also attended.
I was so proud of your easy win and your convictions in that and so many other matters Governor Perry that I urged my political organization, Somos Republicans, America’s largest organization conservative Hispanics, to honor your success and commitment with the “2010 Most Hispanic Friendly Candidate award.” At Somos Republicans we thought you were the type of Republican we could be proud of and appreciate. We hoped you would lead by example and show Republicans and the Republican Party that we need more Latinos not less in the Party.
It is clear to us now that, perhaps, our hope and faith in you was misplaced. Soon after your inauguration you reversed your assertions from only days before and made the “Sanctuary Bill” an “emergency item.” You knew, as I had advised your staff and the RPT leadership and our national leader, Mrs. Deedee Garcia Blasé’, had also expressed that objective was provided not by Republicans but by the Tanton Network, already long since labeled a “hate group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Not only that, they are not conservatives as their leadership is littered with leaders from Planned Parenthood. It is irrefutable that their true objective in this anti-immigration effort is directly aimed at Latinos in America in an effort to deprive them and all Americans of their Rights as part of a population control scheme. Yet, you and your legislative leaders have taken guidance from these infiltrators and insurrectionists who seek to undermine not only the Republican Party but also the Rights of Americans and yet you supported them!
We are simply astounded, mortified actually, that we could have been so very wrong about you. Were we?! SB 9 the “Sanctuary City Bill” is deeply flawed, does nothing for security but does demonstrate, clearly, a violation of the Supremacy Clause of the US Constitution. Similar bills passed at the state level have already been found un-constitutional. Their passage has been a direct source of both severe economic and social strife in the states where these bills have been implemented. Texas is already deeply short of money and you have made it a point to tout your economic success. Do you really want to bring that all to an end?! This bill is, obviously, contrary to Constitutional law and is doomed to be challenged, costing us Texans millions and will accomplish nothing but causing Texas to become intolerant and unfriendly.
Is that what you think Texas needs? Do you really believe this will help the Republican Party win more Latino votes in the future? Why would you ever take legislative advice from people who openly admit they are radical environmentalists?!
There is still time. Stop this! Stop SB 9 now! Ask Speaker Straus to stop this bill now and, if not, please take the correct action yourself, demonstrate real leadership and VETO that bill. It was and is a huge mistake.
Listen to man in the mirror, the one who supported and signed the “Tejano Monument Bill” and don’t listen to the pollsters or the lobbyists and, please, do the right thing. Be the leader we know you can be and we will continue to call you our friend.
With respect,
Lauro Garza
Texas Director, Somos Republicans
DeeDee Garcia Blasé
President, Somos Republicans
Pete Ruiz
Executive Vice President, Somos Republicans
Bob Quasius
Executive Vice President, Somos Republicans
CC: The Honorable Joe Straus
Texas Speaker of the House
A typical discussion on SB 1070
June 10, 2011 by Lauro Garza
Filed under Blog & Opinions, Latino Talk Texas
As many of you know, I manage a facebook page called the LatinoTalk Fan page where I posted links to my former internet talk show and my other essays on politics, law enforcement, space exploration and other topics. It was my activity there and elsewhere that attracted the leaders of Somos Republicans to me and my work. I still manage that page and post links to my interests there. Here is an exchange I had recently. This one was more polite than most and hits all the major arguments and misinformation. I hope reading it will convince you and Mr. Bretney both that the anti-immigration effort in America today is not an effort at “law and order” but a cleverly disguised effort at population control by radical environmentalists who are not interested in the Constitution or the Constitutional Rights of Americans, especially American Latinos. Here goes: I published this on LatinoTalk fan page first.
We are part of America’s largest organization of conservative Hispanics and the fastest growing. We support CIR and denounce SB 1070 and the evil people at the Tanton Network who spawned it!
James Anthony Bretney Why do you denouce SB 1070?
June 1 at 11:49pm
To which I replied:
LatinoTalk Fan Page Thanks for asking. There are many reasons but chief among them is the fact that it is unconstitutional for any state to usurp an exclusive federal authority specifically granted in the First amendment to the federal government. Secondly, it clearly violates the 4th Amendment of the Bill of Rights. As a conservative, respect for the Constitution is paramount. There are many more reasons equally valid. June 5 at 11:05pm
And then it followed:
James Anthony Bretney How does SB 1070 usurp federal authority? violate the 4th amendment? The first amendment is a specific sanction on federal authority namely speech, assembly and religion not an expression of federal authority. I am curious how you reach your opinions. Thank you. June 5 at 11:35pm
LatinoTalk Fan Page Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution. The Fourth Amendment of the Bill of Rights requires that no one can be arrested and/or have their person, the property or papers searched without probable cause based upon an affirmed affidavit. SB 1070 was specifically written to deprive those rights from Americans. That is why it has been found unconstitutional, twice. June 6 at 9:10am ·
an alien who is unlawfully present in the United States if the person pro-
vides to the law enforcement officer or agency any of the following:
1. A valid Arizona driver license.
2. A …valid Arizona nonoperating identification license.
3. A valid tribal enrollment card or other form of tribal identification.
4. If the entity requires proof of legal presence in the United States
before issuance, any valid United States federal, state or local govern-
ment issued identification.
http://www.azdatapages.com/sb1070.html
how is that an unconstitutional search and seizure? June 6 at 1:38pm
Second, SB 1070 is very clear. I have cited the law and asked you a question. How does the the text of the become an unconstitutional search and seizure?
Thirdly, you say that federal statute holds that only police powers supervised by customs or Special Agents can make arrests regarding illegal immigration. Which statute is that exactly?
Fourth, traffic stops are Terry Stops.
Fifth, you say that immigration is not a serious matter. With all due respect, you are one man. The state of Arizona thorough their elected officials have spoken. To them it is a serious matter.
You say it is illegal, yet you cannot show me how it is. You say it is unconstitutional yet you can cite clauses in the constitution nor case law where it is. You say it is secessionist? How is it secessionist to uphold the federal immigration law which SB 1070 does.
Now I am not a hardliner on this issue. I want to see a prosperous Latin America. I want to see Mexico stand as an equal partner in NAFTA. That was the promise of NAFTA. I want to see a drug free Western Hemisphere. The promise of the Monroe Doctrince and Manifest Destiny is to see the Western Hemisphere as a federation of free, prosperous, democratic peoples living in peace with one another.
I am persuaded by those who wish to leave the corruption and economic misery of their circumstances to live free and become an American. I sympathize with those who may have broke the law and crossed illegally years ago who live crime free with families and children. I would rather have Latino immigrants who are Catholic and family orientated who offer a third way to the white-black race narrative. I would rather have Latino immigration than Muslim immigration.
But I won’t tolerate is lawlessness – the crime and the graft that comes with the cartels, the gang violence, and drug-trafficking. Many of my friends and neighbors like Rob Krentz have died. I don’t want illegals collecting welfare, running up hospital bills, voting, committing crimes or their kids going to college for free. So call me what you want. I don’t care. That’s how I feel and I support SB 1070! because someone has to do something . . Wednesday at 12:01am
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_stop
For the Court in Berkemer v. McCarty, Justice Marshall wrote
“most traffic stops resemble, in duration and atmosphere, the kind of brief detention authorized in Terry.” (468 U.S. 420, 439, n. 29)
A felony is more serious that a camera ticket:
Section 1325 in Title 8 of the United States Code, “Improper entry of alien”, provides for a fine, imprisonment, or both for any immigrant who:[49]
enters or attempts to enter the United States at any time or place other than as designated by immigration agents, or
eludes examination or inspection by immigration agents, or
attempts to enter or obtains entry to the United States by a willfully false or misleading representation or the willful concealment of a material fact.
The State of Arizona through its elected officials and millions of Americans disagree with you and say it is a serious matter.
Now I don’t like Mr. Tanton or his nativist crowd. But I do know what illegal immigrants are doing to the borderlands, my neighbors and to my country. Securing that border is a precondition to any other discussion to the status of illegal aliens. June 9.
LatinoTalk Fan Page Please see: http://www.texasgopvote.com/blog/if-you-hang-em-all-you-get-guilty-04295 June 10.
LatinoTalk Fan Page The fact that a traffic stop “resembles” a “Terry Stop” does not make is so. They are as distinct as whales and fish, both of which are similar in appearance and exist in the same environment. I assure you that I am correct and you are not in that matter. While it is true that a felony is obviously more serious than a traffic violation it is also true that failure to declare is not an “instanterable offense” like speeding. However, the article you cite refers to persons who have been banned or deported previously and then return and that is a federal felony. Note that the States do not enforce it either. Why? Because the “Supremacy Clause” clearly states that certain matters that pertain to the federal government as defined in the Constitution are their alone. That’s it. Every effort at the state or city level to affect immigration enforcement as failed as it is unconstitutional. All Conservatives should support adherence to the Constitution but the Tanton Network is not interested in that. They want to expel ALL Latinos from America and to do so they seek to violate the Constitutional Rights of those Latinos in order to discourage their presence in America and arrange for their, eventual, expatriation. They believe, and they have said so, that America is for white people only. I am not interested, despite my detractor’s assertions, in defending illegal immigration. In fact, in this debate I am the only person who has actually arrested illegal aliens for that civil offense. I am; however, interested in exposing the lies of the radical environmentalists who seek to demonize all Latinos, not just illegal immigrants, and deprive them of their Rights and mine. They have invaded the Republican Party and convinced them that liberalism is actually conservatism and I wont stand for that! June 10.
LatinoTalk Fan Page Oh and the statute is commonly known as “287g.” June 10.
What’s really going on in Taylor, Texas – Final Report
May 29, 2011 by Lauro Garza
Filed under Blog & Opinions, Latino Talk Texas
As you know from my prior postings on this subject, it was reported that children and families of suspected illegal immigrants were being held in a medium security private prison under contract to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE). I learned about this as a friend on facebook, recently, posted a link to the documentary film “the least of these” on my page. Frankly, both me and Deedee Blase’, our founder, were outraged!
In fact, Deedee, reported that the film brought tears to her eyes as she witnessed small children who looked like they could her own, in jail cells! I will admit that I knew what the content of the film must have been and could not bear to watch it. The documentary portrays the conditions created by the Corrections Corporation of America medium security facility in Taylor, Texas called the T. Don Hutto Center. Frankly it was terrible and it was true! Very true! That’s bad. Very bad.
I began investigating. An immigration attorney I know reported to me after seeing my original posting on this subject that he visits there almost daily. He reported there were no longer any children there and that only women were housed there. Another, unconfirmed report indicated that the facility no longer had concertina and razor wire atop the fence. Our midwest director, Bob Quasius reported that he heard the ACLU was on the case already and a settlement had been reached in 2007. That was my next stop.
I contacted Lisa Grabel, legal director for the Texas ACLU based in nearby Austin, Texas. She confirmed that ACLU did bring a lawsuit in the case of the T. Don Hutto facility, in 2007, because so much attention was brought to the pathetic circumstance by concerned citizens and the documentary film. Furthermore she reported that grassroots activism among locals, clergy and human rights activists all demanded action! The mere idea of small children in prison cells was intolerable!
Mrs. Grabel reported that ACLU brought action and ICE agreed that a prior settlement brought by ACLU against ICE’s governmental predecessor, the US Immigration and Naturalization Service, was applicable to ICE and this matter. The result is that, although children can still be held in a detention facility, the facility at T. Don Hutto, and the conditions there were inappropriate and inhumane. The result is that if children will be held for immigration matters, they must be held not in a prison but in a residential setting and both educational services be provided as well as many other human needs be provided.
That begged my next question, “Are there still children held in these facilities?” Mrs. Grabel confirmed that children and families were no longer held in any facility in Texas and that the only facility in America for that was, possibly, the Burke’s Center in Pennsylvania.
But who is really at the center of the travesty that made all this happen in 2007 and have they really learned their lesson? The answers are: CCA, Corrections Corporation of America and NO! They haven’t learned. In fact, you may recall that CCA and its lobbyists have been implicated in a Arizona scandals to insure the passage of illegal and unconstitutional laws to make it possible for state law enforcement to investigate immigration matters. If such laws were to take effect, CCA could make millions more of the misery of more families in Arizona and, now, Georgia.
At Somos Republicans, we know that the anti-immigration movement is driven by population control radical environmentalists. But it is interesting to learn that the CCA, who stands to make millions of dollars of the misery and suffering of children, may be bank rolling the effort.
Letter to Governor Rick Perry and Rep. Tommy Williams regarding Sanctuary City Bills
May 23, 2011 by admin
Filed under Latino Talk Texas
May 23, 2011
The Honorable Rick Perry Governor of the Great State of Texas
Office of the Governor
P.O. Box 12428
Austin, Texas 78711-2428
Re: SB 11/HB 12, “Sanctuary City Bill
Greeting:
With regard to SB 11 “Sanctuary City Bill” by Senator Tommy Williams, we are deeply opposed to this bill as its language demonstrates, clearly, a violation of the Supremacy Clause of the US Constitution and also, blatantly, violates the 4th Amendment of the Bill of Rights. Similar bills passed at the state level have already been found un-constitutional but, perhaps as important, their passage has been a direct source of both economic and social strife in the states where these bills have been implemented.
We; therefore, urge you and Senator Williams to desist in your efforts to pass this and similar bills. Furthermore, we urge you both to allow this bill to be blocked. Lastly, as you stated in his recent inaugural speech, “…immigration is a federal matter!” and we; therefore, urge you both to turn away from this line of conduct as it is both contrary to the your stated policy and it is, obviously, contrary to Constitutional law and is doomed to be challenged.
At Somos Republicans we have real solutions to our national and local problems with our 12 Steps to Secure Borders and Legal Immigration Plan. Lionel Sosa, a former Ronald Reagan Presidential Hispanic advisor helped polish this plan and supports it.
Cordially and with respect,
Lauro Garza Texas Director Somos Republicans
DeeDee Garcia Blase President Somos Republicans
cc: Honorable Tommy Williams
