Associated Press
A young man stands in the gates at the U.S.-Mexico border awaiting his deportation at the port of entry in Tijuana.
Three months ago, the Republican National Committee hosted a teleconference call with reporters on immigration policy. The media heard from the Republicans' Hispanic Outreach Director, Bettina Inclan, who chose an odd line of attack against President Obama -- the RNC went after the president from the left.
"[Obama] talked about uniting families and all he's done is deport more immigrants than any president in American history," Inclan said.
It was a strange twist. The RNC, which is supposed to support increased deportations, was condemning the president for deporting too many immigrants who entered the country illegally.
A few months later, the right is still pursuing this.
[Tuesday], a conservative group released a new Spanish-language ad targeting Latino voters in Nevada and blasting President Obama as "Deporter-in-Chief" -- referring to the President's immigration enforcement record. The group behind the ad, Nevada Hispanics, is associated with the conservative and pro-Republican organizations American Principles in Action and the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles.
On a substantive level, there's certainly nothing wrong with having a debate over the propriety of Obama increasing deportation rates. The White House seemed to believe Republicans would be more willing to cooperate and work constructively on comprehensive immigration reform if the administration was more aggressive in enforcing existing laws, but the assumption was wrong -- there was literally nothing Obama could do to get the GOP to take governing seriously.
If immigration advocates want to criticize this record of deportations, they have a credible case to make.
But the right doesn't. Not only do Republicans want increased deportations, they're hoping to elect the most anti-immigrant presidential nominee in generations. As Rachel recently explained, Mitt Romney has vowed to veto the DREAM Act, endorsed a cruel "self-deportation" agenda, sees Arizona's SB1070 as a national "model," and is palling around with Kris Kobach, among other things.
The "Deporter-in-Chief" ad's Republican sponsors are effectively telling Latino voters, "Don't vote for the guy who supports the DREAM Act and comprehensive immigration reform; vote for the right-wing guy who want to make life for immigrants so miserable they'll 'self-deport.'"
To believe Latino voters will find this message compelling is to believe Latino voters are easily fooled.
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No Mystery here .
Obama's for it? We're against it.
Obama's against it? We're for it.
Easy Peasy ...even the knuckle dragging contingent can follow that
In Other News:
Republicans accuse Obama of "killing too many terrorists".
It's funny because President Obama's semi amnesty act supposedly aimed at Latinos would actually benefit mostly White European, Asians & Arabs who probably won't vote for him.
No, dear. Let's see if we can't unpack this for you.
1. "Acts" are laws passed by Congress. Executive orders, which is what Obama signed, tell the federal bureaucracy how to go about executing the law. All quite Constitutional.
2. The law won't mostly benefit "White European, Asians & Arabs" because it only applies the children of undocumented aliens. Last time I checked, the overwhelming majority of undocumented aliens are, in fact, Latinos who outnumber "Europeans, Asians and Arabs" by orders of magnitude in that population. Funny how vast disparities in economic opportunity between countries that share share a border will cause that.
3. Whatever their nationality or legal status, aliens can't vote. Because they're not citizens. That's what makes them "aliens."
4. Among citizens of Asian and Arab ethnicity, Obama is way ahead. If by "White Europeans" you mean "white people," yeah, Obama's losing in that demographic, primarily due to the overwhelming opposition of old people and blue collar middle aged men. But if by "White Europeans" you mean naturalized citizens of European origin or first generation citizens, Obama's kicking ass in those demographics.
5. That's "white Europeans," not "White Europeans." There is no country called "Whiteland" from which all white Europeans emanate. I guess you could go with "Caucasian" or "Aryan" which are historically and ethnologically inaccurate but properly capitalized. (That "Aryan" thing carries a bit of baggage, though.)
The problem with people who living in the right wing counterfactual alternate epistemologically closed bubble is that it enables you to pack vast amounts of wrong into a very few words.
Clearly, the best course of action is to lower taxes on the wealthy. That way, they can hire more illegals.
Wow. The Romney camp is flailing. And this is just during a campaign. Can't imagine the utter Romneyshambles an actual administration of his would bring.
Have you ever seen someone drowning, at first you're not sure if they're playing around and when you realize it, you see that they're flailing around, you throw them a life-line and they're so busy bobbing up and down that they fail to catch the line - that's Mittens and the GOTP!
McConnell: Whatever position that black guy takes we're going to oppose it, especially if it helps Americans that might vote for that guy again!
It's sad, pathetic and tantamount to treason against the American people but the low-information voters don't care to pay attention.