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Title: Will the GOP Betray America on Their Promises to Crack Down on ILLEGAL Immigration?
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Orlando Sentinel
URL Source: http://oneoldvet.com/?p=25483
Published: Jan 22, 2011
Author: Mike Thomas
Post Date: 2011-01-22 09:14:09 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Views: 327
Comments: 10
There’s no way Florida will crack down on illegal workers There will be no Arizona-style immigration law in Florida. There will be no crackdown on illegal workers. Gov. Rick Scott will be leading no bus caravans back to Mexico. If this is the issue that fired you up and drove you to the polls, then it served its purpose. It rallied the conservative base. It played a key role in Scott’s race against Bill McCollum in the Republican primary. But now the campaigns are over, and reality has set in. Too much of Florida’s economy relies on illegal workers. So they aren’t going anywhere except back to the hotel rooms, the construction sites, the restaurant kitchens and the vegetable fields. If it’s any consolation for him, McCollum was right when he said: “We don’t need that law in Florida. That’s not what’s going to happen here.” Truth can be bad politics. And please do not rant against the liberals on this one. Businesses don’t want a crackdown. The cops don’t want a crackdown. Republican strategists don’t want a crackdown. Hispanic members of Congress and the Legislature don’t want a crackdown. Jeb Bush, who co-chaired the Hispanic Leadership Network conference last week, is very vocal about not wanting a crackdown. Florida Senate President Mike Haridopolos has talked tough. But he picked Anitere Flores to oversee hearings on an immigration bill. She was a strong supporter of the Dream Act, a congressional bill that would have given permanent status to young illegal residents who went to college or served in the military. She uses the term “unauthorized immigration.” None of the witnesses called before her committee has supported an Arizona bill. Two words: stacked deck. Even the Republican who introduced the Arizona bill in the state Senate, Mike Bennett of Bradenton, says he “might not even vote for it myself.” At best we will see some loophole-laden, face-saving measures for public consumption. One example is Gov. Scott’s order that state agencies use the federal government’s E-Verify system to check the legal status of new hires. It’s not like Mexican biologists are sneaking across the border to work for the Department of Environmental Protection. Scott has backed off a proposal to require private employers to use E-Verify. The reason is simple: It would hit the tourism, construction and service industries very hard. And it would shut down agriculture. Any farm that enforced E-Verify would see its labor force dry up and its crops rot in the field. And that would send a lot of legal workers to the unemployment line. That would hardly get Scott off to a stellar start on his promise to create 700,000 jobs. The business round tables that preside over Florida’s economy don’t mind if Republicans demagogue on illegal immigrants to get elected. If that’s what it takes to beat Democrats, then so be it. But once they are in office, and it’s time to govern, business is business. And a crackdown would be bad for business. As a businessman, Scott understands that. Eventually, House Speaker Dean Cannon will have to explain all this to the man he picked as his judiciary chairman: Rep. William Snyder, R-Stuart. Snyder is gung-ho for an Arizona law. He wrote a version of it last year. White Republicans far and wide gave him a big high-five. Hispanic Republicans scratched their heads over what looked to be a carve-out exemption for Canadians and Europeans. Snyder says he will get his bill through the House, but I tend to think he hasn’t cleared that with Cannon, who has never put this issue on his list of priorities. A former cop, Snyder says cops can check on the legal status of people without profiling. But if the vast majority of illegal immigrants are Hispanic, then Hispanics obviously are going to fall under more suspicion when stopped by police. This is why the Florida Police Chiefs Association wants nothing to do with this bill. Invariably, some South Florida high-school principal who was working in his yard will be carted off to jail for the crime of having an accent and not having a wallet, while in possession of dirty fingernails. As Republicans begin taking all this in, increasingly their conclusion is: No, we can’t.
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Washington (CNN) - Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is calling on conservatives to step up their outreach to Hispanic voters if they want to remain politically relevant. In a Miami Herald op-ed Sunday, Bush wrote that "the center-right movement" is a natural home for Hispanic voters with its message of lower taxes and education reform. "While the reason for such low numbers is debatable, the way to turn them around is clear: a long-term commitment to outreach and better articulation of our values by conservative leaders," Bush wrote, pointing to a Pew survey showing that only 38 percent of Hispanics voted Republican in 2010. "I don't think 40 percent of the Hispanic vote can be our ceiling if we plan to impact our nation in the coming decades." He urged Republicans to "commit to serious and sustained engagement" with the Hispanic community, a strategy "inextricably linked to the continued success of the center-right movement." Bush is co-chairing this week's debut conference the Hispanic Leadership Network, a group formed last year by the conservative American Action Network to appeal to Hispanic voters. Conference organizers invited a slew of potential GOP presidential contenders, but only Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty has accepted an invitation and will address the forum on Friday in Coral Gables.
Here is the cold, hard reality of it: The GOP LEADERSHIP is owned and operated like a business. A GLOBALIST business whose mission is NOT to serve Americans, but to serve an elite and ultra-powerful globalist business cartel. Loyal Republicans are nothing but expendable employees on the RETAINER OF PROMISE that the GOP will pay said employee their wages. These people are capable of ANY tactic or lie to convince loyal Republicans that CHANGE will finally come to America - and THIS TIME it will be genuine change for the good and interests OF AMERICANS . In this case, the wages would be ACTUAL, REAL, TANGIBLE, AND REQUIRED immigration reform. The other reality is that the GOP employees will never see a paycheck.
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Jeb Bush urges Hispanic outreach for GOP
The Spanish-fluent ex-governor pointed to several bright spots for Republicans in the most recent election cycle – Sen. Marco Rubio's win in Florida, along with pick-ups in the House by Idaho's Raul Labrador and Washington's Jaime Herrera – but said conservatives writ large still get "unacceptably low support" among Hispanic voters.
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