Tonight on The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, House Minority John Boehner showed why the GOP nationally will never recover and why people such as me can never join its ranks.
Boehner, in a live interview, responded to comments from President Bush earlier in the week that the Republican Party has come off nationally as appearing it does not like immigrants.
He said: The Republican Party has always welcomed legal immigrants."
Boehner's comment shows a willful ignorance of this nation's history. from American companies and armies repeatedly crossing the Mexican border for workers, treasures and men to put in uniform in the war on terror. Green Card soldiers are laughed at by the Arab Press, because they represent the unwillingness of supposed legal Americans to fight its own country's battles.
The Republican Party will miss out on new members and voters from the fasting growing group of Americans in this nation: Hispanics. Our numbers are growing because of our people born in this nation as citizens, not from immigration. That has been the case, according to Census figures, since the year 2000. And the spiraling economy has led many undocumented human beings to return to Latin America.
Boehner's just reinforces in our minds that the GOP hates all of us. And payback at the ballot box for the rest of this century is going to be a bitch, since by the year 2050, we'll represent an entire third of the U.S. population.
We won't forget Boehner's comments and those of too many other Republicans.
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