Obama Invites 160 Gullible Hispanics to White House to Dine on Red Herring

 

SANTA FE, NM (By Jon Garrido, The Jon Garrido Network) August 24, 2011 — Obama won two-thirds of the Hispanic vote in 2008 by promising immigration policies would be a top priority in his first term and would be overhauled.

 

But Obama failed to deliver Immigration Reform granting a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants but instead, Obama implemented Secure Communities, a deportation program, used to deport more than 1 million undocumented immigrants since 2009.

 

Obama's failure with Immigration has resulted in deep Hispanic disappointment with Obama.

 

In 2011, U.S. immigration policy continues as the number one issue with Hispanic voters, according to a poll conducted by the independent research firm Latino Decisions.

 

Asked to name the most important issues facing Hispanics, 51% of respondents cited immigration, 35% said the economy and jobs, and 18% said education.

 

A majority of the Hispanic voters surveyed by Latino Decisions said they know an undocumented immigrant and one-fourth said they know someone who is facing deportation or has been deported.

 

Among Hispanics, Obama’s job approval rating  has plummeted since its high mark in April 2009, according to Gallup, from 85 percent to 44 percent this month.

 

Obama's failure with Immigration Reform has led to a wave of immigration laws that has swept through states since 2006 with state legislators expected to introduce about 1,400 bills this year.

 

Since last fall, both English- and Spanish-language media have heavily chronicled record deportations and controversial enforcement policies promoted by President Barack Obama's administration.

 

After the latest defeat of the Dream Act, Obama was pressed to use “Prosecutorial Discretion” to avoid deporting Young Immigrants. Obama countered with an invitation to Hispanics to the White House where they were told he had no authority to decrease deportations.

 

Obama stated he could not break the law regarding deportations. One of the props used to support what Obama claimed was Eva Longoria bedazzled with a White House invitation where she learned the world is flat.

 

Longoria swallowed Obama's lie — hook, line and sinker.

 

Gullible Eva Longoria read from her prepared White House script, "We would like to blame Obama for inaction on lessening deportations, but he can’t just disobey the law that’s written.’’

 

Longoria, an American actress, best known for portraying Gabrielle Solis on the ABC television series Desperate Housewives is where she became an expert on immigration law specializing in Presidential Executive Branch Authority Regarding Implementation of Immigration Laws and Policies.

 

But there is no humor found with utterances of those who are used by Obama to preach the Obama mantra: Hilda L. Solis, Katherine Archuleta and Cecilia Muñoz, the White House official who oversees immigration policy, said "Mr. Obama strongly favors Secure Communities because he does not have the option of saying, while I’m waiting for Congress to come forward, I am not going to bother to enforce the law.”

"The Secure Communities program is the best tool we have,” added Muñoz, “to enforce the law in the best possible way.”

 

On April 29, 2011, an internal Memorandum was issued Re: Executive Branch Authority Regarding Implementation of Immigration Laws and Policies which states, "The authority of law enforcement agencies to exercise discretion in deciding what cases to investigate and prosecute under existing civil and criminal law, including immigration law, is fundamental to the American legal system."

 

On August 18, Obama pulled the rug from underneath Solis, Archuleta and Muñoz by announcing "Prosecutorial Discretion” would now be used to waive deportations of Young Immigrants.

 

No one now can refute Obama used Eva Longoria by lying he could not break the law and was forced to deport 1,000,000 undocumented Hispanics in the three years he has been President.

 

If Obama, Solis, Archuleta and Muñoz do not understand the importance of Immigration Reform and the hardship caused by deporting 1,000,000 Hispanics compounded by the constant fear undocumented living in the United States are forced to live daily which is identical to fear the German Gestapo heaped upon Jews when asked, "Papers, please," then Obama does not deserve to be re-elected and his incompetent staff who are not Hispanic advocates but have sold their souls to the devil and now used to expound the Obama mantra should resign or be tarred and feathered in effigy.

 

Not that staff had creditability before but clearly now, Obama's staff have exposed themselves betraying Hispanics putting Obama first rather than Hispanics.

 

Hispanic groups believe the far greater impact of Obama failing to have Immigration Reform approved in Obama's first two years as president when the Democrats controlled Congress is "social" fueled by racists.

 

Laws targeting undocumented immigrants have reflected and even intensified the rising anti-immigration movement both in statehouses and on the streets. The result is a legislative record from Arizona to Florida that hasn't made much of a mark on undocumented immigration, but has fueled a populist backlash against it.

But this is not to say state and local policies have not had significant effects. When Prince William County in Virginia passed an SB 1070-style law in 2008, those embroiled in the debate say it became a very different place.

"It wasn't just that a law was passed. All of a sudden people felt threats of violence," says film producer Chris Rigopulos after a screening of "9500 Liberty," a documentary on the law.

In Arizona, an estimated 100,000 Hispanics left the state in the months after SB 1070 was enacted, according to a BBVA Bancomer Research study.

According to Alicia Sandoval, who left Arizona for Ohio, this mass exodus was not just because of SB 1070. Ms. Sandoval, who came to the US from Mexico 10 years ago, says the law only formalized what had been going on for years.

 

"When we first came to Arizona, there was no fear," Sandoval says through an interpreter. "The police wouldn't treat you bad, even if you didn't have any papers."

But that has changed. She points to the aggressive policies of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who arrested and used ICE to deport 26,000 people from 2007 to 2010 – all before SB 1070.

Sandoval worked at a bakery in the heavily Hispanic Phoenix neighborhood and often saw lines of cars pulled over by police officers when she got off work at 1 a.m. She says Sheriff Arpaio's deputies would find reasons, such as expired tags, to pull over people and then arrested.

To Win 2nd Term, Obama needs a Large Hispanic Turnout

 

Hispanic voters growing in numbers are crucial in presidential battleground states such as New Mexico, Nevada and Colorado.

 

Mr. Obama's failure so far to kick-start an immigration-law overhaul, has siphoned Hispanic re-election support for Obama in 2012. Twelve states constitute the likely battlegrounds for the 2012 election, based on Gallup’s state-by-state ratings of President Obama’s approval level.

 

Assuming Obama can move his national numbers back upward, then the 16 states plus the District of Columbia in which he had approval of 50% or better this spring can reasonably be considered his electoral base. They have 215 electoral votes.

For now, however, the battleground dozen in the middle of Gallup’s rankings have 155 electoral votes, and to win, Obama would have to capture 55 of those while holding his base. The battlegrounds, which also appear on lists drawn up by strategists in both parties, are three perennial swing states, Florida (29), Ohio (18) and Pennsylvania (20); Iowa (6); three in the South, Virginia (13), North Carolina (15) and Georgia (16); and five states in the West, Oregon (7) plus a grouping in the interior West made up of Nevada (6), Arizona (11), New Mexico (5) and Colorado (9).

 

For those states, Obama would have to depend on a large Hispanic turnout which is the reason, while most of Washington was embroiled in the debt-ceiling drama last month, about 160 Hispanic leaders from across the country were invited to the White House one day, largely unnoticed.

 

The White House event was part of broader efforts by Obama’s reelection campaign to rekindle excitement among Hispanic voters, many of whom have turned their backs on the president amid disappointment over his immigration policies.

 

Key to the strategy to regain Hispanic support is shifting voters’ attention beyond the caustic immigration debate with data-driven appeals that show progress in other areas.

 

For two days, they enjoyed full access to top presidential advisers, cabinet members and administration officials from across the government. Before the participants left town, they received a glossy 33-page booklet detailing talking points to be shared back home — 1.9 million Hispanics kept out of poverty by the stimulus, $808 million in loans last year to Hispanic small businesses, and an extra $1 billion directed to colleges with large numbers of Hispanic students, to name a few.

 

“I understand the pain our community is going through,” said Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis, in policy discussions with Hispanic activists from across the country as a top White House liaison to the community, adding, “But I think it’s amazing how little people know of the good things this administration has done.”

 

It is obvious Solis has been in living in a Washington cocoon reciting the Obama mantra and has no clue on the pain the undocumented must endure who must comply with draconian immigration laws and live in constant fear of being caught for a broken tail light and deported leaving behind a broken family.

 

The tensions — and the administration’s aggressive efforts to soothe them — reached a climax of sorts in a flurry of activity last week, with the administration making a surprise announcement Thursday it was giving officials discretion to suspend certain deportation cases that have drawn fire from critics, such as ones involving young people brought to the country in early childhood.

 

The White House move came two days after immigrant advocates delivered tens of thousands of petitions to Obama’s reelection headquarters and other Democratic Party offices demanding an end to the administration’s aggressive deportation policy.

 

Puerto Ricans and Cuban Americans are oblivious, unaffected and impervious to Immigration Reform

 

Administration officials announced last week they would host Hispanic policy conferences in cities across the country. Some will be in key political battlegrounds — with the first to take place this month in Orlando, home to a large Puerto Rican community that is a prime target for the campaign’s early voter registration efforts.

 

Even if every Puerto Rican voter voted for Obama, Obama would still loose the 2012 election without the Mexican American vote.

 

The outreach to Puerto Ricans is indicative of how out of touch Obama is with Hispanics. Puerto Ricans nor Cuban Americans have no empathy for Immigration Reform.

 

Puerto Ricans do not consider Immigration Reform a high priority because Puerto Ricans can come and go to Puerto Rico without hindrance.

 

Obama can wine and dine the Puerto Ricans as he did with $7.3 Billion dollars for their votes on Health Care Reform but unless Obama ends Secure Communities to win Mexican Americans, Obama will not win re-election.

 

Connecting with the Mexican American community which is 65% of all Hispanics in the USA should be the highest priority for Obama but sadly and to his misfortune Obama think the Puerto Rican community is key to his re-election but with only along with the Cuban Americans totals less than 10% of all Hispanics.

 

Since Obama in the first two years of his presidency when Democrats controlled the Congress failed to achieve Immigration Reform, Obama has only one avenue available to regain Mexican American support which is to end the Secure Communities Program and quit deporting the undocumented.

 

Te White House efforts to build up the Hispanic base coincide with recent moves by Obama’s Chicago-based reelection campaign to begin ramping up its grass-roots Hispanic operations in key states.

 

The campaign recently named Solis’s former chief of staff, longtime Denver strategist Katherine Archuleta, as its national political director, touting her as the highest-ranking Latina in the organization.

 

Archuleta and campaign manager Jim Messina met this month with Hispanic organizers and volunteers in Las Vegas, and next month Archuleta plans to hold similar meetings in Colorado, Florida and New Mexico.

 

“There’s a lot of outreach, but I think what people are still getting frustrated with is, okay, where are the outcomes in terms of policy?” said Arturo Vargas, executive director of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials and a regular participant in meetings with top White House officials.

 

“The White House feels they have done all this work in other areas on the economy that has benefited Latinos just like it’s benefited most of the country,” he said. “But it hasn’t been perceived that way in the community.”

 

If the 160 Hispanic leaders invited to the White House to be informed of talking points to be shared back home accept the items enumerated will substitute for Immigration Reform and condone 1,000,000 deportations and Secure Communities continuing — then the 160 Hispanics leaders are not leaders but Eva Longoria clones who can  be bedazzled with as little as a White House dinner of Red Herring — but nothing will substitute for an approved Immigration Reform bill overturning AZSB1070 with a path to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented.

 

Obama had a possibility in the first two years of he presidency when Democrats controlled Congress but Obama blew this opportunity. With the Republicans in control of the House and the 2012 election just around the corner, the only option for Obama to gain Hispanic support is continue “Prosecutorial Discretion” ending the deportation of Young Immigrants and ending the Secure Communities Program to deport the undocumented.

 

The only way now for Obama to win re-election in 2012 if he wants support from Hispanic voters, Obama must end Securities Communities.

 

As for the U.S. Department of Justice, I think it is a joke. Obviously, Sheriff Joe Arpaio thinks DOJ is also a joke because he has been under investigation by DOJ for two years with no indictment of Arpaio forthcoming allowing Arpaio to continue daily stopping the undocumented for broken tail lights and jaywalking knowing he can reek havoc on the undocumented in Maricopa County, Arizona and DOJ is not clever enough to stop him.

 

Lastly, as important as ending the tyranny of Joe Arpaio is, unless Obama replaces Eric H. Holder, Jr. to prepare for the upcoming fight before the U.S. Supreme Court to defeat AZSB 1070, the vote will be 5-4 upholding AZSB 1070 as the law of the land.

 

Only Immigration Reform or the U.S. Supreme Court can end AZSB 1070. The crumbs identified as talking points provided by Solis don't even come close to being fundamental to the welfare of 50 million Hispanics living in the USA.

 

Since Obama failed with winning Immigration Reform, the only avenue we have is for the U.S. Supreme Court voting 5-4 to overturn AZSB 1070.

 

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