There’s nothing like having experienced socialism, poverty and repression in your native country to make you a conservative and draw you to the Tea Party movement.
“If the immigrants understood what was happening in America there would be a revolt against those politicians,” said Muñoz, who became a citizen in 2008. “Obama’s talking one way and doing another and the Hispanics do not know about that hanky-panky.”
He has launched a state political action committee, TitoPAC, and a federal 527 called the Conservative Hispanic Coalition, to fund his run for state Senate.
“Why do immigrants leave their country? Because they don’t have opportunity and they don’t have freedom, because politicians control everything,” he said. “We come to America and we are going to have the same crap? Then we might as well go back there.”
One thing that is making these immigrants activists is the news media. When your opinion can’t get a fair hearing, you take to the streets and become a candidate yourself. The media are turning the immigrant community against the Democrats. These are not stupid people yet the media treats them that way.
Muñoz and tea party-affiliated immigrants said the news media are just as complicit as the politicians, casting the tea party as anti-immigrant and racist – which he calls lies and propaganda.
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