Latino / Hispanic Republicans: You may as well support ObamaCare if you are going to support RomneyCare

Immediate Release – 25 January 2012

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Hispanic Republicans:  You may as well support ObamaCare if you are going to support RomneyCare

Phoenix, AZ –  The largest Hispanic Republican group in the nation, SOMOS REPUBLICANS, cannot support RomneyCare.  Supporting RomneyCare is no different than supporting ObamaCare.  Tea Party supporters mobilized strongly when ObamaCare was passed and voting for Mitt Romney would give them no leg to stand on in the general elections.

According to RedState:

“Romneycare is the antecedent to Obamacare.  It dramatically distorted the free-market of private insurance; it dumped a few hundred thousand people onto federally funded Medicaid; it set up gov’t-run exchanges that disincentivize success and offer larger subsidies than those proposed in Obamacare; it placed unreasonable mandates on employers to fund their employee’s healthcare.  The net result of Romneycare was the archetypical outcome of every statist policy; the price of a vital service was purposely distorted as a means of enticing more people to become dependent upon government.”

Secondly, Romney also gave his oath to protect a woman’s right to choose and his oath was said with conviction.  True pro life supporters do not trust Romney based on his previous support towards Planned Parenthood.

Lastly, Romney has taken a protectionist and isolationist view against immigrants.  He is considered one of the most anti-Latino GOP candidates since the Ronald Reagan years.  It was because of Reagan that Latinos began to vote in support of the Republican Party.  Mitt Romney has helped to destroy the progress that Reagan made within our Latino community.  If Romney wins the Republican Primary elections, Hispanic Republicans will write in Ronald Reagan on the ballot.

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Marco Rubio Lied About His Cuban Exile Immigrant Background

From the Washington Post:

Marco Rubio’s compelling family story embellishes facts, documents show

By Manuel Roig-Franzia, Published: October 20

During his rise to political prominence, Sen. Marco Rubio frequently repeated a compelling version of his family’s history that had special resonance in South Florida. He was the “son of exiles,” he told audiences, Cuban Americans forced off their beloved island after “a thug,” Fidel Castro, took power.

But a review of documents — including naturalization papers and other official records — reveals that the Florida Republican’s account embellishes the facts. The documents show that Rubio’s parents came to the United States and were admitted for permanent residence more than two-and-a-halfyears before Castro’s forces overthrew the Cuban government and took power on New Year’s Day 1959.

The supposed flight of Rubio’s parents has been at the core of the young senator’s political identity, both before and after his stunning tea-party-propelled victory in last year’s Senate election. Rubio — now considered a prospective 2012 Republican vice presidential candidate and a possible future presidential contender — mentions his parents in the second sentence of the official biography on his Senate Web site. It says that Mario and Oriales Rubio “came to America following Fidel Castro’s takeover.” And the 40-year-old senator with the boyish smile and prom-king good looks has drawn on the power of that claim to entrance audiences captivated by the rhetorical skills of one of the more dynamic stump speakers in modern American politics.
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SOMOS REPUBLICANS Identify Senator Marco Rubio Immigration Cuban Exile Hypocrisy

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

21 October 2011

Phoenix, AZ — SOMOS REPUBLICANS has been asking Senator Marco Rubio to get on the right side of the immigration issue for months.   In a recent story, Washington Post showed documents — including naturalization papers and other official records — reveals that the Florida Republican’s account embellishes the facts of his immigrant history. The documents show that Rubio’s parents came to the United States and were admitted for permanent residence more than 2¹ / ₂years before Castro’s forces overthrew the Cuban government and took power on New Year’s Day 1959.   Rubio has held himself out to be a son of Cuban exiles but the evidence shows he is nothing of the sort.

We believe Rubio knew when and how his parents arrived here in the U.S.   Are his parents economic immigrants? How did his parents leave Cuba originally and arrive here in the U.S.? Did they overstay their visa?  How did they then immigrate given that the Cuban Adjustment Act was not even around before Castro came to power?

Rubio has supported harsh anti-immigration laws and enforcement only policies.  In fact, Rubio and Republican Texas Congressman Lamar Smith have sponsored a large government idea via National E-verify.

In light of the Washington Post story, we believe it is time to find out the complete history of his parents’ immigration history.  It is also time for Rubio to be a leader and help Senator Bob Menendez fix the broken immigration system.  We have already presented our position to fix the broken immigration system to Democratic and Republican Senators with a significant amount of support from Democrats.  We were told by Rubio’s office he would not support our position.  We are asking him to reconsider his anti-immigrant position in providing a solution to the broken immigration system under the Obama administration.  This is the federal government’s responsibility and even though this is a tough issue to fix, it must be done.  Rubio must show leadership and work on a bipartisan secure borders and legal immigration plan with Menendez.  This is not a Democratic or Republican issue – this is an American issue as we continue to be that Shining City on a Hill.

During a speech, President Ronald Reagan said:

“I think its time we ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms that were intended for us by the founding fathers. Not too long ago 2 friends of mine were talking to a Cuban refugee, a business man who had excaped from Castro.  And in the midst of one of his stories, my friends turned to the other and said, ‘we don’t know how lucky we are.’  And the Cuban stopped and said, ‘How lucky YOU are, I had some place to escape to.’ In that sentence he told us the entire story.”

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