CPAC 'GOP minority outreach' panel goes as well as you'd expect

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It was already mentioned, but it bears repeating:

The GOP doesn't need "outreach" to minorities when the GOP can simply exclude them from participation through gerrymandered districts, voter suppression, and targeted ICE raids.

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It was already mentioned, but it bears repeating:

The GOP doesn't need "outreach" to minorities when the GOP can simply exclude them from participation through gerrymandered districts, voter suppression, and targeted ICE raids.

Obama's DHS is helping the GOP deport illegal immigrants so they won't be able to vote?

Yes, the GOP enforces immigration laws (that their legislators clamor for) selectively.

The GOP business classes have a great desire for Hispanic illegal migration, as long as the immigrants themselves do not become politically active through unionization/collective bargaining efforts, public demonstrations, voter registration drives, and the like.

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It was already mentioned, but it bears repeating:

The GOP doesn't need "outreach" to minorities when the GOP can simply exclude them from participation through gerrymandered districts, voter suppression, and targeted ICE raids.

Obama's DHS is helping the GOP deport illegal immigrants so they won't be able to vote?

Yes, the GOP enforces immigration laws (that their legislators clamor for) selectively.

The GOP business classes have a great desire for Hispanic illegal migration, as long as the immigrants themselves do not become politically active through unionization/collective bargaining efforts, public demonstrations, voter registration drives, and the like.

I don't know of a single state where illegal immigrants can legally vote.  Indeed, most, if not all, don't allow legal immigrants to vote until they become citizens.  Low rates of voter registration and thus of voting itself in Hispanic communities can be explained by high rates of ineligible adults because of their status as non-citizens.  Now perhaps one can argue that the ICE enforcement has an indirect chilling effect on the political activity of Hispanic citizens, but frankly I don't buy it.  There's no logical connection there.  Of course, voters aren't always logical, but I would expect that if anything Hispanic citizens who feel their community is being unfairly targeted for ICE enforcement would become more politically active, not less.

Many of the Hispanics in states with markedly low Hispanic voter participation rates have been American citizens for generations.