What makes you think that because someone is a Latino, that makes them a labor left Democrat voter? Or even a voter at all?
Btw, the INS hasn't been busting non-union building trades contractors who use illegal or under age illegal immigrants as scabs for some months now! Clinton/Sweeney policy?
Tom
Nathan Newman wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> >
> > Instead of losing one congressman we will probably lose two congressman
> > here in Ohio if the Clinton/Sweeney plan goes through. The Republicans
> > will in all probability control the re-districting process in Ohio after
> > the 2000 census and both congressional seats lost will be labor
> > Democrats.
>
> Aside from it being the right thing to do and a boon for labor organizing by
> getting rid of an easily exploitable group of employees, the plan will help
> win progressive Congressional seats in places like California and hopefully
> Texas. Bob Dornan was defeated because of his anti-immigrant attitudes and
> the GOP lost control of the state legislature largely because latinos and
> even traditional GOP groups like the Vietnamese turned so decisively against
> the anti-immigrant attitudes of the GOP.
>
> So if there are a few seats lost because of white male backlash, so be it.
> In the long run, labor and the Dems will gain far more over time as the
> population because increasingly non-white. GOP racism against immigrants
> left a long memory with a whole range of Eastern European and other
> immigrants earlier in this century, and the GOP took another fifty years to
> woo those groups to even consider voting their way. Jack Kemp noted this
> in 1994 when the GOP lined up behind Prop 187-- his predictions were
> fulfilled even sooner than he expected with the near extermination of GOP
> power in California.
>
> So three cheers for labor on taking the right stand. They will have to
> spend some time explaining the advantages of this stance to their members
> and key districts, but explaining the right thing is a hell of a lot easier
> than explaining the wrong thing in other districts.
>
> -- Nathan Newman