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April 07, 2006

A Night with the RNHA

 

 

First, I was going to do this two days ago, but haven’t had the chance until now. A Lady’s Ruminations blog has posted an extensive list of valuable links and info on the immigration debate, so you should go there and check it out.

 

 

The Liberal media won’t tell you, but there’s really quite a number of hispanics around this country that think these pro-illegals’ rallies are nothing but nonsense.

 

I had a great time last night with the Dallas Chapter of the Republican National Hispanic Assembly listening to various candidates and speakers and discussing the isssues. Chapter Chairman Jason Villalba hosted a forum for local and congressional Republican runoff candidates to tell us why we should vote for them Tuesday.

 

A couple of the candidates whom I really liked included Amir Omar, congressional candidate in district 30 (about 75% Democrat) did a great job explaining his face-to-face method for connecting residents with issues and short -circuiting the Democrat party’s stranglehold on the district. So far he’s been invited to several predominately Democrat churches in the district because he connects so well with them on school prayer and other important social issues. Omar, a son of legal immigrants is also strongly pro border control and understands how unfair it is for illegals to cut in line ahead of those who have the character to do things the right way.

 

Teresa Hawthorne, who’s running for Judge, Dallas County Criminal Court No. 6 was another great candidate and one with whom I had a chance to speak afterward. Among the things most impressive was that she started law school at age 39, taking night classes while working days as a teacher. So I’m pretty certain she’s no slacker.

 

After the forum, Jason then opened up the floor to discuss the current immigration crisis. We heard from a number of folks and most were informed and wanted the laws enforced.

 

One elderly man who spent most of his life in Mexico City until he immigrated here legally had very harsh words for Vicenté Fox and the elites that run that country. But he also had some harsh words for the pro-illegal demonstrators. He said it was obvious the protests were nothing more than a leftwing endeavor and contrary to our conservative and American values. He suggested they protest against Mexico instead.

 

Later, a woman noted that on Spanish-language radio even though many of the hosts are left-leaning and pro-demonstrators, many callers were mad as heck the protests took place.

 

Another fellow cited the staggering economic disaster in Texas ($2.6 Billion net revenue lost) caused by illegals – one that far outweighs any setbacks due to housing hurricane Katrina victims. This includes any revenue gained through cheap illegal labor and so forth.

 

While opinions on a guest worker program differed among those present (as they would in any group), everyone was comfortable sharing his or her position.

 

In response to one woman who was a bit on the ethnocentric side and at least as soft on illegals as John McCain, Jason Villalba reminded her “We are Americans first” and that “we are a nation of laws”.

 

As someone else noted last night, it’s too bad the media choose to ignore loyal American hispanics when looking for the “hispanic view”, but I suppose it suits the media’s largely leftwing agenda to race bait, create conflict and ignore the real issues and roots of problems being faced.

Posted by Martin at April 7, 2006 09:30 AM

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