Phoenix, AZ — SOMOS REPUBLICANS is rejecting Senator Marco Rubio’s position when he stated Mitt Romney is not anti-immigrant.  Indeed Romney is anti-immigrant when he chose to receive the endorsement of Kris Kobach who is responsible for almost all anti-DREAM Act and anti-immigrant laws that have swept our nation.  Rubio is out of line to demand that Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich stop airing a truthful political ad in Florida calling Romney anti-immigrant.  Romney promised to veto the DREAM Act.

Somos Republicans advocates for policies that promote legal migration rather than undocumented migration, and we reject being lied to.  Our immigration system is broken. Our dysfunctional immigration system was last revamped in 1986 and has not provided for legal mechanisms to bring in needed workers in many industries. We have about 8 million undocumented workers, because there was “no line to get behind”.  Speaking of the undocumented as “criminals” and simply enforcing a broken law when many of them are parents of United States citizens is not only anti-immigrant — it is anti-American. Latinos will no longer accept the deceiving language espoused by many who have taken protectionist and restrictionist positions when they simply call for the deportation of the ten million.  Regretfully, it seems that Romney has only received immigration policy advice from Kris Kobach who is associated with groups like Federation Americans Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) labeled correctly by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group.

Somos Republicans is the voice of thousands of Latinos that find a home within the Republican Party, yet such home is becoming unwelcoming.   Somos Republicans rejects the efforts to  attempt to divide Latinos and disregard our voice.  We ask  Rubio to be the voice of reason,  the voice of compromise and to hear the voice of many conservative Americans, many in the business community who know that the immigration system is antiquated and must be reformed  to promote legal migration and make us globally competitive for the 21st century.

Mitt Romney’s position on undocumented immigration and the DREAM Act demonstrates that he fails as a leader to understand the most basic premise; that the system is broken and that enforcing a broken law is as unjust as enforcing an unjust law. We remember with much sadness  the time  in our nation’s history when “separate but equal ” was the law that was enforced.

Somos Republicans is asking Rubio to have the courage to confront  Romney on his ill advised stance on undocumented migration, for the good of our party and most importantly for the good of our nation.  We would like to see Rubio ask Romney to denounce Kris Kobach and FAIR before the Florida Primary elections.

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