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No Winning Combination for Latinos
Like Romney,
Ryan is wrong
on immigration
w ould have severe consequences
fo r L atinos — the nation's largest
and fastest-grow ing m inority group.
Like R om ney, R yan is an im m i
gration hardliner. H e opposes the
D R E A M A ct, a m easure that helps
by R aul A . R eyes
young people brought here w ith
Paul R yan, M itt
out docum ents as children earn
R om ney's running
citizenship. In 2005, R yan sup
m ate, re c e iv e d a
p o r te d a b ill th a t w o u ld 'v e
rapturous w elcom e
crim in alized all u n d o cu m en ted
at the R epublican
im m igrants. H e once said that "an
N ational C o n v en
ch o r babies co st m oney," using
tion in T am pa. The
an offensive term for children bom
a u d ien c e c h ee re d
in the U nited States to parents
as he assailed P resid en t B arack w ithout papers. Instead o f being
O bam a's record. R yan seem ed bois- inclusive, R yan reinforces the Re-
terous and full o f energy. H e could p u b lican P arty 's n eg ativ e im age
alm ost pass for one o f R om ney's am ong H ispanics as hostile to im m i-
s o n s.
g ran ts.
A s a L atino voter, I w as sur-
R yan is best know n fo r his pro-
prised that R om ney ch o se R yan as posals to slash go v ern m en t spend-
his V eep, w hen he has struggled to ing. H is budget w ould turn M edi-
co n n ect w ith H ispanics. U ntil re- care into a v o u ch er system , drasti-
cently, I knew little about this G en- cally cu t social services, and give
eration X law m aker from Janesville, tax breaks to the w e alth y — all w ith-
W isc.
out actually reducing the deficit.
So, w ho is Paul R yan? D em o- R yan is going to have a hard tim e
crats say he's the b o g ey m an w ho selling H ispanics on this. A ccord-
w ants to end M edicare. R epubli- ing to the polling com p an y L atino
cans say he's the new face o f the D ecisions, 73 p ercent o f H ispanics
G O P. U nfo rtu n ately , they're both oppose cutting M edicare to bal-
right. R yan has radical view s about ance the budget, w hile 83 percent
o u r co u n try 's future, and his ideas favor raising taxes on the w ealthy to
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do so.
R yan's plan w ould disproportion
ately im pact the m ost vulnerable
A m ericans. H e w ants to repeal the
A ffordable C are A ct. H e w ants to
cu t funding fo r Pell G rants and food
stam ps, and turn M edicaid over to
the states. A gain, these are ideas
opposed by H ispanics. A n A pril
poll by the Pew C en ter found that 75
percent o f L atinos, in these hard
econom ic tim es, favor a b ig g er gov
ern m en t w ith m ore services, not a
sm aller gov ern m en t offering less.
M illions o f L atino fam ilies and
seniors, in fact, d epend on the safety
net that R yan w ants to slash. T he
N ational C ouncil o f L a R aza, the
A m erican A ssociation o f R etired
Persons, and the N ational A sso cia
tion for the H ispanic Elderly all agree
that the R yan budget w ould be harm
ful to L atinos.
It's iro n ic th a t R y an c o n sid e rs
"b ig g o v e rn m e n t" to be a p ro b le m
b e c a u s e h e h as sp en t ju s t a b o u t
h is e n tire a d u lt life in th e p u b lic
se c to r. H e 's a s e v e n -te rm c o n
g re ssm a n w h o h a s b e en in W a sh
in g to n sin c e c o lle g e , a sid e fro m a
sh o rt stin t w ith h is fa m ily 's b u s i
n e ss. H e c ritic iz e s th e d e fic it th at
h e h e lp e d c re a te by v o tin g fo r the
w a r in Ira q , th e b a n k b a ilo u t, and
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th e B u sh tax c u ts.
T ru e, R y an is a fre sh face w ith
a frie n d ly p e rso n a . B u t lo o k s can
b e d e c e iv in g . R y an is a d e v o u t
C a th o lic , y e t h is b u d g e t h as b een
d e n o u n c e d by th e U .S . C o u n c il o f
C a th o lic B ish o p s as " u n ju stifie d
and w rong." H is fa m ily ’s c o n stru c
tio n b u s in e s s w as b u ilt u p o n p u b
lic w o rk s p ro je c ts su ch as h ig h
w a y s, a irp o rts , an d d e fe n se c o n
tra c ts — th e ty p e o f g o v e rn m e n t
s p e n d in g th at R y an n o w o p p o se s.
R y an ’s budget itse lf is a rehash o f
failed R eagan-era policies. R onald
R eagan's fo rm er b udget guru D avid
S tockm an recently called the R yan
b u d g et "phony" and "dev o id o f
c r e d ib le m a th o r h a rd p o lic y
ch o ices."
T hough R om ney has lately tried
to distance h im se lf from R yan's
budget, he has not put forth one o f
his ow n. F o r all purposes, R yan's
plan is R o m n ey ’s plan, one w ith
d eep ly n eg ativ e im plications for
H ispanics, the m iddle class, seniors,
and the poor. A nd the m ore w e
know about R yan, the m ore o b v i
ous it becom es that he and R om ney
aren't a w inning com b ination for
America.
Raul A. Reyes is an attorney and
columnist in New York City.
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