A news service, the Public Insight Network, wants our opinions on what to call them now, if the Associated Press says we can’t call them “illegals” any more. A very good question, to which I do not have as good an answer. But here’s what I submitted anyway: “What personal experiences from your life inform [...]
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Fixing our national debt by importing taxpayers
By Dave Leach What does immigration have to do with fixing our national debt? Would importing millions more taxpayers, through legal immigration, make our crushing federal deficit more manageable, as several economists indicate? Or take away our jobs and load us up with welfare bums, as restrictionists argue? The right answer would be very helpful [...]
The twisted logic of liberal inductive reasoning
Liberals like to fancy themselves as purveyors of knowledge, who must look down from their ivory towers and enlighten conservatives to the ways of the world. How else can someone like President Barack Obama, whose life experience consisted of community organizing, find the audacity during his State of the Union speech to lecture the Supreme [...]
Gobernadores republicanos reclutarán a hispanos
Associated Press, por Por Russell Contreras Los que apoyan el movimiento lo conciben como una oportunidad para reformar al Partido Republicano. “Esto es algo bueno y una grandiosa manera de dar nueva forma al Partido Republicano”, declaró Bob Quasius, fundador de Republicanos Café con Leche, un grupo de Minnesota que trabaja para que el partido [...]
Immigration on the table for 2013, Obama must take the lead
From San Diego La Prensa (original link) and LatinaLista.com (original link) Café con Leche Republicans, an organization that pushes for conservative GOP values agree. Its president Bob Quasius said that a reform could be reached only if Obama took steps to “mend the demagoguery that hindered progress” during his first term. “Obama needs to make [...]
Liberty Republicans offer immigration plan with Hispanic support
From Washington Times – original link WASHINGTON, DC, February 14, 2013 ― Everyone has an opinion on immigration. While the media spin a simple narrative of where the two major political parties stand on the issue, the reality is much more complex. This week the complexity of the issue was illuminated as Republican voices from [...]
NM Gov. Martinez, Nevada Gov. Sandoval head GOP effort to recruit minority candidates
This article from the Associated Press appeared in dozens of newspapers and media outlets. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Republican leaders are launching an effort led by Hispanic governors in New Mexico and Nevada in an attempt to make up ground with Latino voters who have largely turned away from the GOP. The nation’s only Hispanic governors [...]
Hospital Admissions Restrictions: The Statist Mentality
By Thomas Salazar A new bill proposed in the Arizona state legislature (HB 2293 or Hospital Admissions Restrictions) would require the “hospital admissions officer or representative” to be held responsible to the State of Arizona for seeking out whether or not a patient is legally present in the United States, if the patient does not have valid [...]
Conservative Latino Group Trashes Ann Coulter’s ‘Ignorance’ And ‘Shameful,’ ‘Inflammatory Rhetoric’
by Anjali Sareen at Mediaite – original link Bob Quasius, president of the Latino group, criticizes Coulter for her shoddy research, saying, “The ‘facts’ Ann Coulter cites are either blatantly untrue, or she cherry picks facts in isolation of other relevant factors.” Quasius goes on to call Coulter’s piece “libel of Latino family values.” He [...]
Ann Coulter Slammed By Cafe Con Leche Republicans, Conservative Pro-Immigrant Group
Ann Coulter Slammed By Cafe Con Leche Republicans, Conservative Pro-Immigrant Group by Roque Planas Latinos aren’t done setting the record straight with Ann Coulter. The error-ridden piece has riled up the pro-immigrant conservative group Café Con Leche Republicans, who skewer Coulter’s piece in a scathing response, calling the column a “libel of Latino family values” [...]
