{"id":601120,"date":"2023-12-14T21:18:50","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T18:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/hispanic-leaders-on-border-talks-its-a-trap\/"},"modified":"2023-12-14T21:18:50","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T18:18:50","slug":"hispanic-leaders-on-border-talks-its-a-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/hispanic-leaders-on-border-talks-its-a-trap\/","title":{"rendered":"#Hispanic leaders on border talks: It\u2019s a trap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/11\/padillaalex_100423mn01_w.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Hispanic leaders are warning President Biden and Democratic leaders to step away from border policy talks with Republicans, or risk losing political support ahead of a crucial election year.<\/p>\n<p>The Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) and Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) on Wednesday came out in a show of force, amid reports that the White House has officially joined Senate talks pairing permanent changes to border laws with temporary aid to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cRepublicans continue to hold funding for America\u2019s allies hostage at the expense of migrants and to pass Trump-era border policies. Republicans are pitting vulnerable groups against each other to strong arm policies that will exacerbate chaos at the southern border,\u201d said CHC Chair Nanette Barrag\u00e1n (D-Calif.).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are urging the Biden administration to say no, do not take the bait.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hispanic and immigration leaders both within and outside the halls of Congress are irate that Democrats, including the White House, are considering policies they decried under the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we hear is on the table in these quote-unquote negotiations \u2014 a return to Trump era policies \u2014 is not the fix, in fact it will make the problem worse. Mass detention, gutting our asylum system. Title 42 on steroids. It is unconscionable. That is not the way to fix our immigration system,\u201d said Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Immigration Subcommittee.<\/p>\n<p>But CHC members are not just incensed about the substance of talks, they are <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>alled by negotiators horse-trading on immigration without consulting the group.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot a single member of the CHC was given a heads up that the administration would be proposing or considering these right-wing nonstarters, despite outreach for many of us over the last several weeks from requesting to meet in person with a White House chief of staff,\u201d said Sen. Bob Men\u00e9ndez (D-N.J.), who had stepped back from the limelight after a federal corruption indictment in September, but has been vocal in opposition to the border-Ukraine talks.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThat is a hard slap in the face to all the Latino and immigrant communities we represent. Imagine the administration trying to cut a deal on voting rights or civil rights without bringing any members of the Congressional Black Caucus to the table \u2014 that would never be tolerated. And we absolutely cannot tolerate this either.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The implication behind excluding the CHC is twofold: that the group is neither powerful nor united enough to stand up to leadership and the White House, and that its members are incapable of providing a sober assessment of the issue.<\/p>\n<p>The CHC has not taken kindly to that apparent condescension.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not the don\u2019t-do-anything caucus. Do we want to address, do we want to update and modernize our immigration system? Absolutely. We know it needs to happen and we know what needs to happen if you\u2019re genuine about improving the system. This is not it,\u201d said Padilla.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Grassroots Hispanic groups are backing the CHC, in large part because the current negotiations reflect a historical trend where immigration policy has been dictated to, rather than with, immigrant communities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor too long, we have been the political pi\u00f1ata, enduring broken promises that fail to address decades of neglect and abuse through an outdated immigration policy that is not working,\u201d said Domingo Garc\u00eda, national president of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), the country\u2019s oldest Latino civil rights group.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Janet Murgu\u00eda, president and CEO of UnidosUS, the largest Latino civil rights organization, noted the policies under consideration would \u201cexpand the mandatory detention of migrants \u2014 including children and families \u2014 and lead to the rapid deportation of long-term immigrants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Latino community \u2014 over 62 million strong \u2014 wants effective and humane solutions to strengthen our borders and protect people who are seeking security and opportunity in our country,\u201d said Murgu\u00eda.<\/p>\n<p>Latino leaders say Biden\u2019s political calculation \u2014 throwing the kitchen sink at the issue to appease voters worried about border security \u2014 is destined to fail, because it will depress Latino participation in key states.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cI have to go and ask people to vote for Biden, and get them out next November, because the alternative is so bad. But why does it have to be that we have to ask Latinos to vote for the Democrat because the Republican is so bad?\u201d asked former Rep. Luis Guti\u00e9rrez (D-Ill.), a vocal immigration advocate who will spend the next year campaigning among Hispanic voters in Virginia, Pennsylvania and Georgia with Casa en Acci\u00f3n, the political arm of a top mid-Atlantic immigrant advocacy group.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy can\u2019t we say because we\u2019re good? Why don\u2019t we give them a good reason? We always have to give them \u2014 how would I say \u2014 \u2018The monster\u2019s coming. We must all stop the monster.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The White House saw its position bolstered, however, with a national poll conducted by YouGov for Blueprint, an initiative to direct Democratic strategy through public opinion.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>According to the poll, first reported by Politico, a majority of voters support the Ukraine-border deal, and 55 percent would rather get Ukraine aid tied to border policy, risking the aid, than passing it now and dealing with border policy later.<\/p>\n<p>The poll was conducted nationally \u2014 entirely in English \u2014 among 1,012 voters between Dec. 2 and Dec. 5, long before controversy over negotiations had heated up; it has a margin of error of plus minus 3.4 percent.<\/p>\n<p>But Hispanic and immigrant community leaders say the White House is flying blind without their advice and that what\u2019s being negotiated won\u2019t improve conditions at the border.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cIt is imperative that my Senate colleagues and the White House understand what is on the table are policies so extreme that if enacted, it would literally be the most exclusionary restrictive immigration legislation since the racial quota laws of the 1920s, literally turning the clock back 100 years,\u201d said CPC Chair Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.).<\/p>\n<p>If those policies are enacted, CHC members say, conditions at the southern border will worsen, further alienating voters who worry about chaos there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRepublicans have set up this trap, where if they make it harder to legally migrate here, there will be more irregular migration. Then they can go and complain about that irregular migration and try to win elections. We can\u2019t fall into that trap,\u201d said Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas), adding, \u201cHispanic Caucus members know it\u2019s a trap.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd we\u2019re trying to warn the rest of the Congress, the rest of our Democratic colleagues not to take this Republican bait.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though Senate negotiators seem to be all in with White House and leadership support, House Democratic leadership is keeping its powder dry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hard for me to evaluate anything that\u2019s theoretical until I actually am able to look at the substance of what\u2019s presented, and nothing has been presented to me so far,\u201d House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) told The Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, the debate is driving a wedge between Biden and Latino leaders, a wedge some say is not new but is growing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor Biden, we\u2019re invisible. We\u2019re just invisible. They don\u2019t do any outreach. They don\u2019t do any consultation. They didn\u2019t even think of calling the CHC to consult with them. And I think the CHC did the right thing,\u201d said Guti\u00e9rrez.<\/p>\n<p>Though Biden campaigned on morally guided border and immigration policy and has surrounded himself with top-level Hispanic advisers, both at the White House and in his campaign, his immigration policies have been a constant source of friction with Latinos.<\/p>\n<p>And millions in immigrant communities have for decades seen legislative action consistently make their lives harder on the immigration front, even though some executive actions \u2014 including many by the Biden administration \u2014 have allowed hundreds of thousands of people to freely live and work in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLatinos won\u2019t come out to vote. And our efforts to knock on their doors to canvass and to get them out to vote will only become increasingly more difficult. 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