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Originally Posted by mcraig
Politically speaking the Republicans are the only ones that have done anything towards immigration reform. Reagan, McCain. Reagan legalized immigrants and McCain bill was the closest you have come to getting something done he even had the agreement of GWB to sign the legislation. Factually speaking your are completely incorrect. Republican freed slaves, passed Civil rights bill on and on and on . And some how partisans think the democrats have been the ones to something for them. When you are sold a bad bill of goods for your vote like Gutierrez,Obama, Reid , Durbin do realize you are getting screwed and ask for your vote back.
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All that may be true, but what have the Republicans done for Hispanics or Blacks lately? Since civil rights in the 1960s, Republicans deliberately have sought to win the vote of whites in the South by exploiting the latent racism here. More relevant for this forum, they are now stoking hatred toward toward the undocumented--with racist undertones--in their electioneering and rhetoric. This has been the case since 2006/2007, and it gets worse by the day. It is easy to say that Republicans were our advocates years back, but they are currently not. Witness the 2010 gubernatorial election here in Georgia: Nathan Deal actually ran ads deliberately intended to spark fear of Mexicans, with one that went so far as to say Roy Barnes wants to take jobs from Americans and give them to Mexicans, and another that lied to say Barnes tried to make it so illegals could vote.
Democrats don't do this kind of crap, no matter what their other failings are.