Ahead of tonight’s GOP presidential debate, Hispanic Republicans are warning White House hopefuls to tone down the rhetoric regarding immigration. NBC News reports:

A coalition of Latino conservative activists warned the Republican presidential field on Tuesday to ditch Donald Trump’s rhetoric on immigration, or they risk losing the election.

“Heed our warning: don’t expect us to come to your side during the general election,” said Rosario Marín, who served as Treasurer under former President George W. Bush. “If you are not with us now, we won’t be with you then. If you insult us now, we will be deaf to you then. If you take us for granted now, we will not recognize you then.”

Marín was flanked by nearly two dozen other activists, small business owners and elected officials who met earlier that day in Boulder as part of an event organized by the American Principles Project’s Latino Partnership to discuss the upcoming election. The group said they weren’t endorsing any candidate, but were unified in their opposition to one: Trump.

Although others in the group named Trump, Marín refused to say his name and instead decried the “nonstop vitriolic insults” from “a wannabe politician.” 

Meanwhile, National Review confirms that Congressman Paul Ryan has promised that once he is speaker of the House, he will block any immigration reform package that does not have support of a majority of House Republicans, ensuring that comprehensive immigration reform is going nowhere in Congress:

Paul Ryan has signed off on a letter promising restless members of the House Freedom Caucus (HFC) that he won’t bring immigration-reform legislation to the House floor while President Obama remains in office. The letter, obtained exclusively by National Review, formalizes pledges that Ryan made last week in a closed-door meeting with select members of the HFC who were skeptical of his promise to maintain an “open” and “inclusive” relationship with the caucus. Specifically, it extracts Ryan’s word that he will not bring up comprehensive immigration reform “so long as Barack Obama is president” and, as speaker, Ryan will not allow any immigration bill to reach the floor for a vote unless a “majority” of GOP members support it.

This article appears in Oct 22-28, 2015.

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5 replies on “Republican Party Vs. Latinos, GOP Debate Edition”

  1. Blocking “comprehensive immigration reform” is the only good thing Ryan is likely to do. The last reform would have doubled our already insanely high legal immigration rates while doing very little about illegal immgiration.
    It also would have established “rolling amnesties” that would have virtually guaranteed illegal immigration would continue forever.

  2. Message to illegals – get out now. You and your liberal supporters are sucking the middle class dry. We’re done with you.

  3. We are Americans first, some people connect by race and religion first, I don’t care what race or religion that is wrong! That is not being anti that is being American we are all mutts no people like us on this earth, we are exceptional not our race and religion they are along for the ride, but being American is special and many have forgotten this as they give away membership cards like they have no value! .
    William Robert Heath Sr.

  4. Immigration is a bulwark against the financial burden of an aging population. The middle class is threatened by the centralizing of wealth into the hands of the few who promote immigration fears to get the votes of frightened whites and consolidate their power. The American spirit has never been the inclusive domain of one race. It’s a perception of self that goes beyond all other forms of identity & associations, that’s why every immigrant group eventually assimilates and becomes proudly American. To lose faith in that process is to lose faith in America itself.

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