When will Dems start...

[kirby]

To seriously and respectfully address Immigration reform and fairness? Stop ignoring the issue...you will continue to slide with Latino/Latina voters.

[Claustrum]

1. Agreed.

As a first generation immigrant, I care about immigration reform and legal immigrations. Letting republicans define whatever immigration means (negatively) is a losing position.

[LenaBaby61]

3. REALLY THIS 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻

[DURHAM D]

2. What do you want?

I have Latinx family members. They are anti-immigration. PERIOD

One actually said a few years ago - "I got mine and fuck them!"

[GreenWave]

4. The last response you got was vintage magat.

regardless of issue.

[gab13by13]

5. Democrats had a plan

the freaking Senate passed it but John Boehner refused to bring it to the House floor where it would have passed,

But yeah, let's blame Democrats.

[kirby]

7. 10 years ago....

Ignored the issue since to our own detriment.

[in2herbs]

6. The last I saw AZ voters passed Prop 308 which is an in-state college tuition benefit for

those who have been here but are shut out of higher education because of racist white pigs.

[brooklynite]

8. You lost me at "Latinx"

…and probably Latino voters as well. Immigration reform is not a driving issue among a majority of Latino voters, and “Latinx” is the kind of identity politics that pushes older voters away.

[TheRealNorth]

9. +1

Even the use of "Latinx" turns off a lot of Hispanic/Latino voters. Surprised that there are still people using it today.

[kirby]

10. True...

I was going to type Latino/Latina, but was on my tablet and took a shortcut. But I agree...most Latino/Latina do not associate / appreciate the term. On my desktop now, so I edited it.

[awesomerwb1]

11. They passed immigration bills last year

The senate did not bring them up for a vote. The parlaSHITarian also shot down a couple efforts to pass it under reconciliation.

Immigration reform might never happen. Maybe in 20 years if we still have a country by then.

My humble suggestion: start grooming good young latin candidates in FL and other states.

Although Qpublicans will never stop talking about their best talking point, the border, get need to get more creative and have a much larger presence in Central American countries. Invest money there before they go in the China column (China is trying VERY hard).

[awesomerwb1]

12. By the way, I agree with some of the posters

Latinx is not a popular thing with a lot of younger latin voters.

[Fiendish Thingy]

13. When they have the votes and the political outrage to kill the filibuster. Nt

[mcar]

14. Seriously?

Democrats have been pushing immigration reform for decades. Republicans always block it.

Do you really think Ds did poorly in SFL among Hispanic voters because of that?

[haele]

15. Problem is, we've lost that. GOP is telling second generation Hispanic immigrants

That they're real Americans like White folks are and that these current immigrants are cheaters and gang members for decades, through lies that their Chambers of Commerce and Community "leadership" peer groups push about crime, spanish-speaking radio and frankly, popular media.
They have been poisoning the minds of Hispanic communities by picking "winners" and criminalizing "losers". By constantly telling the winners that even though your Abueles, your Tios and Tias came over on a Braceros program and barely speak English, that Hispanic culture keeps you poor and all of Central America is a Narco-state that is going to steal your hard earned stuff, even though they still have relatives on the other side of the border who are living in relative peace and prosperity.
GOP -and by extension, US Evangelicalism - has been portraying Mexican Culture as weak and impoverishing, anf Liberal policies as holding individuals back for, again, decades.
And it is working, as second/third generation Hispanics are increasingly viewing immigrants and asylum seekers as breaking the law trying to get to the US, even though their own parents or grandparents came across the border same way for the same reasons.
Dems lost immigration reform in the 2000's when it didn't seem important.

Haele