Placido Salazar - Latino Leaders on Immigration

Placido Salazar
psalazar9@satx.rr.com

Mi Hermano – unfortunately, Monday I have to take my wife to the anesthesiologist at Lackland AFB, because she is having eye surgery on Tuesday.  You know that I have always been behind your effort on behalf of our RAZA.

I fail to see why Dolores Huerta is supporting Barack Obama’s decision to delay an Executive Order on Immigration.  She says that “Republicans in the House of Representatives have approved a number of bills that would hurt Latinos and immigrants. One of the bills she pointed to seeks to defund and ultimately get rid of Obama's deferred action program that protects undocumented youth from deportation and allows them to work. -  She says that we are used to waiting and we can wait; that we have to look at the big picture.”  It’s easy to ask others to be patient, when they are the ones being displaced, or separated from their families.  Would she feel the same, if her daughter and her grandchildren were the ones being deported?

All I see in “the big picture” are more families being torn apart by deportations.  If by chance the republicans take control of the senate – they can block any further action by Obama.  “We are used to waiting???”   Waiting for WHAT – for more deportations???  Obama betrayed our Rio Grande Veterans, who were promised a full-service 24/7 hospital – and he already betrayed immigrants by not acting within the first two years, when we had a Democratic House and Senate.  

Dolores wants us to continue being recognized as “the people of mañana”?   Let’s tell it like it is…. Obama cannot be trusted to keep his word.  As we used to say in the military:  “It’s difficult to remain CALM, when you are the one up to your ass in alligators.”

ADELANTE Y ARRIBA In Solidarity – Placido Salazar  (210) 422-0378

From: Jaime Martinez [mailto:iueorg@aol.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 11:32 PM
To: psalazar9@satx.rr.com
Subject: Fwd: [LRL] Latino Leaders on Immigration

Hermano Placido: Send me your phone number I am having a press conference. I need to talk to you. I don't know if you have been keeping up with my press conferences. Regarding the deportations and the promises to the latino community regarding the Executive Orderes . I stated in the media that President Obama have let us down on this commitment to iussue those Executive Orders on the undocumented, Dreamers, etc. this summer or in Sept. Did you know that between now and then Nov, 70.000 will be scheduled for deportation. Call me i am going to do a press conference Mon. Sept. 29, 2014 at the Cesar E. Chavez Service Center at 10 :30 AM.

1594 E. Commerce St.

In Unity;

Jaime

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Subject: [LRL] Latino Leaders on Immigration

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Why Latino Leaders are Wrong to Stand With Obama on Immigration?

Commentary by Professor Gonzalo Santos ~SOUTH KERN SOL

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Ed. Note:President Obama's recent decision to delay taking executive action on immigration until after November's elections, disappointed many immigrant rights advocates, but not Dolores Huerta who is standing by the president on

his decision.? In this commentary, Dr. Gonzalo Santos, a professor from Cal State, Bakersfield and a local immigrant rights activist shares his reactions to Dolores Huerta's interview with?VOXXI.?To read Dolores Huerta's interview with VOXXI please scroll down.

Sometimes, it is impossible to stay silent regarding one's own friends. This is one such time. As someone who is involved in the Immigrant Rights Movement (IRM) in Bakersfield, California, where Ms. Dolores Huerta lives, too, I am highly disappointed and profoundly disagree with her decision to lend her public support for the decision by President Obama to delay taking executive action to bring urgently-needed administrative relief to the millions of immigrants who live in fear and continue to be deported at a rate of a thousand a day by his administration - breaking his promise that

he would act by now, as he has several times before.

It has been appalling to watch the president pursue, over the past six years, the immoral, relentless, and cruel strategy of deporting over two million migrants caught in a dysfunctional system, in the vain hope of currying favor with the ever-more recalcitrant, xenophobic Republicans.

And when it became obvious he had failed and had to act on his own, and promised to do so, it is unconscionable for the president to have succumbed to the panicky, unprincipled politicians from his own party, delayed action again but has kept deporting people, and in so doing betrayed the trust of our immigrant & Latino/Asian communities. These are the same communities who have patiently stood by him through thick and thin, despite his string of broken promises and lack of political courage, going back to when he took office in 2009.

It is sheer political opportunism for him - or any other Democrat, including Ms. Huerta - to place their party's immediate electoral interests ahead of our community's urgent needs, and then try to spin it by counseling for more "patience" (!), "having faith in the president (!!)," or conjuring up false dangers, such as what would happen if the Republicans end up in control of the Senate.

Apart from the fact that this might happen anyway - in no small part due to disillusionment of the Democratic Party's base for its failure to stand up to the Republicans on so many issues -, if the GOP ends up in control of the Senate by a small margin,?the president can veto?any bill it and the House pass that attacks immigrant rights, women rights, etc.

Yes, Obama will have a harder time getting congressional cooperation, but he hasn't gotten any in the House on immigration reform, equal pay, etc, over the past 6 years anyway: bi-cameral non-cooperation adds up to the same result that just one-chamber non-cooperation has yielded so far: no bill ever becomes law. (When the Democrats controlled both chambers in 2009-10, by the way, they did nothing on immigration, either; and in Bush II years, stubborn opposition to a just and lasting immigration reform was robustly bipartisan).

So it's a specious argument that Ms. Huerta uses to, in effect, excuse and give political cover to the president, sadly more out of her well-known partisan loyalty than any honest concern for the ever-deemer prospects of immigration reform and other needed reforms. Truth is, this president should have acted years ago and those that have consistently made excuses for his executive inaction and lack of political courage while "waiting for Godot" - and even pleaded for him to delay taking action, as some did last June, to their everlasting shame -, or only criticize and denounce the Republicans while studiously remain silent on the Democrats, have not been helpful to our immigrant cause nor to our community.

The price to pay by our Latino elected and community leaders for putting party politics ahead of social justice and defending the community is the loss of credibility and legitimacy, which is too bad for someone of the stature of Ms. Huerta and other prominent Latino leaders who have, for far too long, been abjectly apologizing for Mr. Obama's, and his party's, failing record on a long list of issues. It's time they realized this, and began fighting not just the Republicans, for their anti-immigrant and anti-Latino phobias and hateful attacks

 

- which we all must -, but the Democrats as well, for their proven opportunism, their constant neglect of our community's demands, and their repeated broken promises and betrayals.

Not for nothing when I became a citizen last year I registered as an Independent; and today, I advise everyone else to do the same. In the upcoming elections, I certainly intend to vote and encourage everyone else to register and vote, too. There are important propositions and candidates that have earned our support.?But I do not intend to vote for any Democrat that has not directly and publicly challenged Obama on his appalling record of massive deportations and broken promises.?Neither should you! Until we see?deeds?- not hear promises - we should not support, let alone have faith and trust, in this president, or any other elected leader or candidate.

I say, enough being taken for granted, people!

Dolores Huerta: Obama was right in delaying action on immigration

By Griselda Nevarez

Labor leader and civil rights activist Dolores Huerta is standing by President Barack Obama on his decision to delay executive action on immigration and is asking the immigrant community to have patience.  "We have to look at the big picture and don't get caught up in saying we want it now," she said, referring to action on immigration. "We've been waiting-we are a community that can wait. And we have to have faith in our president, because the Republicans have shown their hand. We know what they want to do." 

Many Latinos have been critical of Obama's move to delay executive action to reform portions of the nation's immigration system until after the November elections, but not Huerta. She said in an interview with VOXXI ?on Tuesday that an immigration announcement by the president before the midterm elections could possibly cripple Democratic efforts to maintain control of the Senate.

Currently, Democrats hold 53 seats in the Senate and Republicans hold 45. There are also two independents who caucus with the Democrats. According to The New York Times, Republicans have a 54 percent chance of gaining a majority in the Senate.

Huerta noted that Republicans in the House of Representatives have approved a number of bills that would hurt Latinos and immigrants. One of the bills she pointed to seeks to defund and ultimately get rid of Obama's deferred action program that protects undocumented youth from deportation and allows them to work.

She added that House Republicans have also approved bills that would deny millions of women reproductive health care coverage-an issue she cares about as a champion of women's rights.

"Right now, none of those laws have been able to pass in the Senate because the Democrats have control of the Senate," Huerta said. "If in this next election we lose the Senate, all of those bad bills that they passed against

immigrants will become law." 

The longtime immigration reform advocate also expressed concern about Latinos who threaten to not vote in the upcoming elections as a way to protest Obama's delay on immigration. She said that sitting out the elections could not only affect the outcomes of congressional races that include Latino candidates, but also other local races like city council, board of supervisors and school board.

"We have to be careful. We have to look at the big picture," Huerta insisted.

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