( - promoted by Karl-Thomas Musselman)
Cross posted at the The Red State
I guess you can file this under "I told you so."
With the Texas Republican Party in the former pueblo San Antonio de Padua, party officials have set our their positions. Their positions are hateful, racist and disrespectful of human dignity.
Texas Republicans want to:
- build a wall between the U.S. and our neighbor Mexico (similar to the wall Reagan asked Gorbachev to tear down),
- hunt down the 12 million undocumented workers in the this country and return them to country of origin (if this administration couldn't evacuate New Orleans, how are they going to expel 12 million people?),
- pull the National Guard from fighting the war on terrorism and make them Border Patrol,
- "not violate the constitutional rights of citizens of the United States" but purposefully say nothing about the rights of the undocumented, those here on work visas or anyone other than a citizen (FYI: The Constitution of the U.S. extends its protection to more than just U.S. citizens),
- prevent those who have become citizens of the U.S. from bringing in their families thus destroying the fabric of society: familial relationships (they believe in family values but only if you not an immigrant),
- deny earned citizenship for immigrants,
- deny the natural right to be a citizen if you are born on U.S. soil (guess no one will check your papers if you are white),
- make local police an arm of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency causing distrust of the police and prevent the reporting of crime against undocumented persons.
- remove day labor centers, and
- deny medical treatment to undocumented persons (does every get asked for papers or just the brown people).
There you have folks! That is what the Texas Republican Party stands for.... fear, hate, racism, classism and general disdain for basic human rights.
You are in San Antonio this weekend. So say it loud and say it proud because us Latinos are listening and we will remember.
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