Posted by
Marco "El Conservador" on Monday, November 26, 2007 12:48:21 AM
I know it is kind of hard to believe that we the Latinos in this country have more in common with the conservative side of the Republican Party than the liberal side of the democrats, but it’s true. The problem is that the leaders of the Republican Party believe the lie that the liberal media spread.
We are a very religious people, catholic in the majority, very respectful of life and the great majority does not agree with abortion. We are a very hard working people and value our money, so we don’t agree with paying more than what is necessary in taxes. We believe in the family and that it needs to be preserve as the union between a man and a woman. We believe in God and the freedom of being able to congregate and pray to him and we like to respect the laws. I know a lot of us are not completely familiar with the laws of this country, because they are different to the ones in the countries that we come from, but we learn them and respect them as we are exposed to them.
And when it comes to the immigration laws, everybody that is illegal in this country is aware of the consequences of living illegally in the country and that they can be picked up and deported at any time, but there’s these groups of people (LULAC, MALDEF and others everywhere in the US) who have self appointed themselves as leaders and protectors of them that are telling them that the immigration laws don’t really matter as long as they are here to do a job that the Americans don’t want to do, which is not true, Americans have been displaced of these jobs that they used to do because of abusive cheaper wages that some employers paid the illegals. And Univision, Telemundo and Cadena Azteca have made it their mission to exploit the situation and to promote these people’s ideas.
But the Republican Party is not taking advantage of this, instead, they are afraid to come and talk to us about heir vision for a better living, not for some groups of people, but for everybody.
Not every Latino believes that the most important issue in the next presidential election is the immigration problem (legal and illegal). It is a problem that needs to be taken care of, and yes it will affect a lot us, but it needs attention.
A debate in Univision is not going to help the Republican Party to get close to the Latino community. Univision is the most anti republican party Spanish media in the country and their question would be especially crafted to make the republican candidates uncomfortable talking about illegal immigration to a majority of viewers who are illegal in this country and are already buying the lies of the so called leaders who are telling them that they deserve legal status just because they are here doing the jobs that “Not even the blacks want to do” as the former president of Mexico Vicente Fox said.
Republicans need to use the Spanish media and create commercials to talk to us and to promote their ideas. Let us know that you have a plan to fix the immigration problems and that you also have a vision for the future that is going to benefit all of us.