Illegal Immigration: Demoncrats Put Politics Over Principle

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ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION / DEMONCRATS PUT POLITICS BEFORE PRINCIPLE

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Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and other congressional leaders have tried to avoid the appearance that they are trying to capitalize politically on the widespread Hispanic anger directed at the House Republican bill. But Democratic National Committee officials helped organize the rallies and promoted the party at the gatherings.

In fact, Democratic Party operatives conducted voter registration drives at the largest pro-immigrant rallies [Ed. Note: Registering illegal, non-citizen, aliens to vote in U.S. elections?].

Democrats Campaign To Lock Up Latino Vote

Democratic strategists are seeking to turn the Hispanic community's discontent over immigration policy into an opportunity to win over Latino voters.

The activists believe the recent pro-immigration rallies -- which are a reaction to the Senate's failure to pass a guest-worker program to counter a strict House-passed border-security bill -- give them a chance to roll back President Bush's nearly 40 percent support among Hispanics in the 2004 election.

"Groups such as the New Democrat Network, the Service Employees International Union and People for the [Ed.: Anti-] American Way are stepping up operations in hopes of translating the high political energy among Hispanics into Democratic votes," the Washington-based publication The Hill reports.

Maria Echaveste of the Hispanic Strategy Center, a former Clinton White House deputy chief of staff, said in reference to the pro-immigrant rallies: "How do you transform that high energy into voters?

"That's something we at the Hispanic Strategy Center are going to be looking at very closely."

Other Clinton administration officials on the Hispanic Strategy Center's advisory board include Bill Richardson, the governor of New Mexico and former secretary of energy; Aida Alvarez, former administrator of the Small Business Administration; Henry Cisneros, former secretary of housing and urban development; and Federico Peña, the former secretary of transportation.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and other congressional leaders have tried to avoid the appearance that they are trying to capitalize politically on the widespread Hispanic anger directed at the House Republican bill. But Democratic National Committee officials helped organize the rallies and promoted the party at the gatherings.

In fact, Democratic Party operatives conducted voter registration drives at the largest pro-immigrant rallies, as NewsMax reported earlier [Ed. Note: Registering illegal, non-citizen, aliens to vote in U.S. elections?].

Robert de Posada, president of the GOP-allied Latino Coalition, said the Republican National Committee would have to counter the Democrat plans or "they're in deep trouble."

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