Earlier this week, Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul told Univision’s Jorge Ramos he was not willing to “kowtow” to win the Latino vote, causing one to wonder if he can win without it.

On “Al Punto”, Paul reiterated to Ramos he was against giving undocumented immigrants a special path to citizenship that would make it easy , and adding his take on the 14th Amendment.

Paul said he does not believe the 14th Amendment was intended to grant citizenship to just anyone born in the U.S. He said that children of undocumented parents should not automatically be given citizenship, because the undocumented are not under the jurisdiction of the U.S. government, therefore are not necessarily able to claim citizenship for their child.

When Ramos told Paul that his opinion is a hard pill to swallow for many Hispanics Paul told him that having a different message for each U.S. demographic is “unnecessary” and pandering.

“I think Hispanics have as much interest in freedom as everybody else. So to say that I have to kowtow, in a sense saying ‘well, the only way you can get a vote for any special group is by giving special privileges.’

Read more here.

“He also stated that the borders need to be secured and that people should be rewarded with citizenship for breaking the law,”

He said no such thing on the video. Maybe a ‘not’ belongs somewhere in there. I don’t know, I’m not an editor.

chupacabra - 06 October 2011 03:07 PM

“He also stated that the borders need to be secured and that people should be rewarded with citizenship for breaking the law,”

He said no such thing on the video. Maybe a ‘not’ belongs somewhere in there. I don’t know, I’m not an editor.

You are absolutely correct. The word “not” was accidentally omitted and the correction has been made. Thank you.

Uh, missed another one…
Paragraph 3: “He said that children of undocumented parents should <NOT> be automatically given citizenship”

Is that a freudian slip? Or do you guys just automatically type “should be automatically given citizenship” out of habit?

Back to the subject at hand…
I believe Ron Paul could do quite well without the “hispanic” vote, though I like to think he will get much more than you think. He would end the drug war which would be a great benefit to the people of Mexico. Lots of Democrats upset with Obama are registering Republican just to vote for Ron Paul in the primaries.

From another web site…
“One-third of Hispanics are below voting age, and another quarter are not citizens. Thus, for every 100 Hispanics, only 40 are eligible to vote, 23 are likely to register, and just 18 are likely to cast ballots. For blacks the comparable number is 37, and for whites, nearly 50.
White voters make up 86 percent of all voters in the most competitive states.”

HS News Staff - 06 October 2011 11:49 AM

Earlier this week, Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul told Univision’s Jorge Ramos he was not willing to “kowtow” to win the Latino vote, causing one to wonder if he can win without it.

On “Al Punto”, Paul reiterated to Ramos he was against giving undocumented immigrants a special path to citizenship that would make it easy , and adding his take on the 14th Amendment.

Paul said he does not believe the 14th Amendment was intended to grant citizenship to just anyone born in the U.S. He said that children of undocumented parents should not automatically be given citizenship, because the undocumented are not under the jurisdiction of the U.S. government, therefore are not necessarily able to claim citizenship for their child.

When Ramos told Paul that his opinion is a hard pill to swallow for many Hispanics Paul told him that having a different message for each U.S. demographic is “unnecessary” and pandering.

“I think Hispanics have as much interest in freedom as everybody else. So to say that I have to kowtow, in a sense saying ‘well, the only way you can get a vote for any special group is by giving special privileges.’

Read more here.

i think they (whites) are not in no jurisdiction to tell us we are illegals when our ancestors have been here before they even were seen on this planet! so f him and f the white house and their votes!!! i use to think he was the only bright “white” but guess not! hatred and simple ignorance really is inheritances by blood!