Congressional Hispanic Caucus Loses Three Members (At Least)
Wednesday, November 03, 2010 at 1:31 pm
Three House members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus — Reps. John Salazar (D-Colo.), Solomon Ortiz (D-Texas) and Ciro Rodriguez (D-Texas) — lost their bids for re-election yesterday, meaning the pro-immigration reform wing of Congress will shrink next session. Arizona Democratic Reps. Gabrielle Giffords and Raul Grijalva could still lose their seats as final votes are counted.
Salazar lost to Republican Scott Tipton, a Tea Party-backed candidate who will likely support heavier immigration enforcement without paths to legal status for the illegal immigrants already in the country. In Texas, Republican Francisco “Quico” Canseco defeated Rodriguez, a six-term congressman, and Republican Blake Farenthold took out 14-term congressman Ortiz.
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus is made up of Democrats and supports immigration reform that would allow some of the illegal immigrants in the United States to remain if they paid fines and taxes, learned English, passed background and civics tests and registered with the government. Losing three members from the caucus may seem minor given the size of Congress, but it means at least three pro-immigration reform members will be replaced in the House with members who support restricting immigration and tightly enforcing immigration laws to drive out current undocumented immigrants.
Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.), who chairs the immigration task force of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, easily won re-election yesterday. But he acknowledged that enacting immigration reform will be more difficult with a GOP-led House. “If Republican opposition prevents us from seriously addressing immigration legislatively, then the President must address the toll deportations are taking on American families and neighborhoods through administrative action,” he said in a press release.
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Comment posted November 4, 2010 @ 2:09 am
It's not “immigration reform”, it's an American surrender and elimination of the USA, to be replaced by the North American Union and eventually One World Government.
Comment posted November 4, 2010 @ 2:29 am
Well I guess its no “reforma migratoria para immigrantes illegales” any time tim e soon. Ay caramba!. This is what the people of America voted for. Attrition through enforcement is the only way to ensure our national sovereignty. Deport all illegals now!.
Comment posted November 4, 2010 @ 2:52 am
Of course, several Hispanic members were elected, too. Raul Labrador, David Rivera, Jamie Herrera, Quico Canseco, Brian Sandavol, Marco Rubio, Susana Martenez… seemed like a really good night for Hispanics to me.
Comment posted November 4, 2010 @ 3:01 am
Susanna Martinez was elected Governor. What does that have to do with the Hispanic Caucus?
Comment posted November 4, 2010 @ 3:14 am
“meaning the pro-immigration reform wing of Congress will shrink next session”
If you define immigration reform as open-borders policies. If you believe in the opposite, then you could say that three members of the anti-immigration reform wing got defeated.
Comment posted November 4, 2010 @ 3:18 am
“The Congressional Hispanic Caucus is made up of Democrats and supports immigration reform that would allow some of the illegal immigrants in the United States to remain if they paid fines and taxes, learned English, passed background and civics tests and registered with the government”
Translation: “The Congressional immigration caucus supports blanket amnesty for illegal aliens including drug traffickers and gang members, and also supports whatever meaningless window dressing it feels might help create a veneer of respectability to such a reckless policy”
Comment posted November 4, 2010 @ 3:19 am
whoops, Freudian slip. Congressional Hispanic Caucus, not Congressional Immigration Caucus.
Comment posted November 4, 2010 @ 4:16 am
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Comment posted November 4, 2010 @ 1:16 pm
Sussana will now be gerrymandering New Mexico for 2012 elections. Long term effect on Hispanic Caucus.
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Comment posted November 4, 2010 @ 1:38 pm
I'm as sorry to see that Luis “snake eyes” Guiterrez won as I am Harry Reid. I guess Illinois and Nevada don't mind putting up with the crimes of illegal aliens. Texas will be happy to divide our illegals and send them to both those states.
Comment posted November 5, 2010 @ 1:10 am
Let’s hope our immigration laws will be enforced. Our system is not broken. It is being broken by the illegal aliens who have no respect for our laws.
Illegal aliens are destroying this Country, and one would have to be almost blind not to see this. How much longer do we have to support these illegal aliens? How much longer do we have to school their illegal alien children? How much longer are we going to let them have our jobs? How much longer are we going to put up with all the crime, stolen identities, forged documents, fake green cards? How much longer are we going to allow these illegal aliens to send money out of this Country and bring our Country down? Oh, amnesty will correct all this. WRONG! Nothing will change except we wouldn’t be able to call them illegal aliens any more. Let’s get rid of these illegal aliens! Let’s get them back to their own Country where they belong!
When we get rid of the illegal aliens, we will get rid of all the problems that go with them. THAT IS A FACT!
Comment posted November 5, 2010 @ 1:34 am
it's calling for immigration reform, not grant amnesty. reform saying let's give these people a chance at the “American Dream”, that we pride ourselves on, by supporting them with temporary green cards. this would allow them to come out of the shadows, pay taxes, pay back fines, circulate more money into the economy, feel more supported by our society. they would be willing to learn English and take pride as being “Americans”. From there we can enforce stronger border control, which of course will not stop illegal immigration, but will curtail it. We can obtain fingerprints and run background checks, make sure that we are properly choosing. this will create jobs. there is a lot of nativism thinking out there, portrayed often by extreme right-winged conservatives. these “illegal” immigrants aren't looking for a free ticket but for a chance.
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