By Jude Joffe-Block Fronteras News Desk PHOENIX — The immigration plank of the Republican Party platform, according to media outlets that reviewed the document, reflects two different attitudes within the party. Delegates will vote on the platform at the Republican National Convention in Tampa next week. On the one hand, the platform supports a temporary [...]
GOP doubles down turning away Latino voters by adopting anti-immigrant provisions for party platform
LatinaLista — The GOP may say they want Latino voters but their latest actions have hammered the last nail in the proverbial coffin of sincerity that they mean it. Today, in Tampa, Florida, the Republican platform committee met to finalize the party’s campaign platform. Politico reports that Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, the author [...]
Republican Party of Texas Chairman Steve Munisteri: “If GOP does not win over Hispanics ‘we’re toast’”
By Steve Taylor Rio Grande Guardian EDINBURG,TX — If the Republican Party does not significantly increase its share of the Hispanic vote in Texas in the coming years it is “toast” as a governing party. That is the view of Steve Munisteri, chairman of the GOP in Texas, as well as an unnamed member of [...]
Former FL GOP Party Chairman testifies his party feels threatened by voters of color and acted against them
LatinaLista — The chilling admission recently by former Florida Republican Party Chairman Jim Greer should have garnered more national outrage than it did. Not just in Florida, but across the country. Television stations in the Sunshine State report that Greer said that the Florida GOP party has actively been trying to suppress blacks and Latinos [...]
Is immigration reform the issue to rip the GOP apart?
LatinaLista — The cracks in the unified front the Republican party has striven to project when denouncing immigration reform has been deepening over time. From Jeb Bush cautioning his colleagues to tone down their anti-immigrant rhetoric to more and more Latino Republicans openly challenging their leadership’s official stance on the issue to Marco Rubio’s surprise [...]
Guest Voz: GOP scapegoats immigrants in quest to dismantle environmental laws
By Scott Nicol LatinaLista Last month the Pew Hispanic Center reported that net migration from Mexico into the United States has dropped to zero, with roughly the same number of Mexican citizens heading south across the border as north. Just a few days earlier, HR 1505, the misnamed National Security and Federal Lands Protection Act, [...]
