Sen Rand Paul says that Texas could turn BLUE!! (legal, health care, Brown)

[urbanlife78]

When I see Texas turn blue in a presidential election is when I pop the champagne and call the election in favor of the Democrat candidate.

[wehotex]

Originally Posted by urbanlife78

When I see Texas turn blue in a presidential election is when I pop the champagne and call the election in favor of the Democrat candidate.

Yeppers. The Repubs CANNOT win without Texas.

[Chimuelojones]

Originally Posted by BentBow

Under Operation Wetbacks, the idea was to get them to self deport, keeping their families together and save the tax dollars.
Those they did deport were put on a slow boat to south Mexico.


It worked really well and very little taxpayer money was spent on the program.

"Opperation *******" was about rounding up and deporting.


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OPERATION ******* | The Handbook of Texas Online| Texas State Historical Association (TSHA)

The resulting Operation *******, a national reaction against illegal immigration, began in Texas in mid-July 1954. Headed by the commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization Service, Gen. Joseph May Swing, the United States Border Patrol, aided by municipal, county, state, and federal authorities, as well as the military, began a quasimilitary operation of search and seizure of all illegal immigrants. Fanning out from the lower Rio Grande valley,

In 1949 the Border Patrol seized nearly 280,000 illegal immigrants. By 1953, the numbers had grown to more than 865,000, The Border | 1953 Operation *******

http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/pqo01

It is difficult to estimate the number of illegal aliens forced to leave by the operation. The INS claimed as many as 1,300,000, though the number officially apprehended did not come anywhere near this total. The INS estimate rested on the claim that most aliens, fearing apprehension by the government, had voluntarily repatriated themselves before and during the operation.

[wutitiz]

People forget that only a generation ago, Texas was solidly blue. People like Phil Gramm left the party when it went insane. We are coming to the end of the baby boom generation, and fairly dramatic change should be expected again.

It is up to conservatives and Republicans to figure out how to adapt and overcome. Conservatives must figure out how to get Hispanics to vote 'R,' or watch as liberals take over, and turn a once-great nation into history's biggest insane asylum.

[BentBow]

Originally Posted by wutitiz

People forget that only a generation ago, Texas was solidly blue. People like Phil Gramm left the party when it went insane. We are coming to the end of the baby boom generation, and fairly dramatic change should be expected again.

It is up to conservatives and Republicans to figure out how to adapt and overcome. Conservatives must figure out how to get Hispanics to vote 'R,' or watch as liberals take over, and turn a once-great nation into history's biggest insane asylum.

40% of the States hispanic population are conservative.

[BentBow]

local INS officials claimed that an additional 500,000 to 700,000 had fled to Mexico before the campaign began.

[summers73]

Originally Posted by Screen

I bet Rand Paul doesn't even support Jim Crow...RINO!!!

I bet he doesn't support ObamaCheney NSA Jim Crow laws.

[urbanlife78]

Originally Posted by BentBow

40% of the States hispanic population are conservative.

Quick, deport them now, isn't that what you right wingers want to do? And you wonder why you struggle go get the Hispanic vote.

[HappyTexan]

Hispanics aren't as liberal as many think.
The recent immigrants (legal and illegal) are pretty conservative and very religious.

Now you may need to wait a few generations for their kids to grow up with more left leaning values.

[Chimuelojones]

Originally Posted by BentBow

local INS officials claimed that an additional 500,000 to 700,000 had fled to Mexico before the campaign began.

INS gave that estimate...never proven to have happend. The numbers deported were actual persons deported.