Statement of Purpose

 

The Jon Garrido Network, owner of Hispanic News, Latino News, New Mexico News and Jon Garrido News, adds Solidarity USA to address key issues that affect America's Hispanics, seniors, students, and unions. Immigration Reform continues to be the number 1 issue followed by Medicare that must be enhanced to provide glasses, hearing aids, dental work, long term care and bulk prescription prices instead of retail prices for seniors, Medicaid providing health care for all in need, and Social Security. For those in need of work, America needs to educate a work force and create jobs at every level. Other issues are No to abortions and gay marriage and the right to bear arms. Federal programs require federal tax revenue making tax reform an absolute necessity so all Americans pay the same percentage tax rate without tax loopholes. To achieve equality in America, the responsibility is given to the United States Congress and now with a substantial increase of Hispanics everywhere in the United States, the time has come to spearhead a movement to elect Mexican American Conservative Democrats to Congress. Mexican Americans are 65% of all America's Hispanics who experience draconian unfair Immigration requirements Cuban Americans and Puerto Ricans do not have to comply with. Solidarity USA is establish to elect Mexican American Conservative Democrats to National Congressional Offices (House & Senate) in 2012 to win immigration reform, enhance Medicare, Medicaid & Social Security, prevent abortions and gay marriage, protect the right to bear arms, create jobs and win tax reform..

 

Issues historically not included in Hispanic News and Latino News (Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, Education, Jobs and Tax Reform) now take on added importance as we take our rightful place in America.  Hispanics, now the largest minority population in the USA and projected to become the majority USA population, are now concerned with the same issues as all other Americans.  Solidarity USA is now established forging a new coalition of Hispanics/Latinos, seniors, students, unions and others who support the Solidarity USA Statement of Purpose.

 

Nexus

 

Hispanic News and Latino News will continue to focus on Immigration Reform; Solidarity USA will focus on electing Mexican Americans to Congress, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, No to Gay Marriage and Abortions, the Right to Bear Arms & Tax Reform; New Mexico News will focus on the state of New Mexico and Jon Garrido News will focus on national news.


I will not Support the Re-Election of Obama unless...


Why Immigration Reform is Vital for the USA


Why Medicare & Medicaid is Vital to the USA (Coming)


Democrats Losing Favor with Hispanics
Luis Gutierrez Labels Marco Rubio Extremist Hypocrite
Marco Rubio Sells Out Hispanic Community; Champions Smith/Grassley Mass Deportation Plan
America's Hispanics need a Leader in the White House, not a Politician We can't Trust
Democrat Wins Republican Seat; Rebuke Seen to Medicare Plan
Republican Proposed Medicare & Medicaid Cuts Unpopular across USA
Republican Plan to cut Medicare and Medicaid Targets Poor
Immigrant Students after Obama Dream Act Failure now Target of ICE Deportations
The Economic Justification for Immigration Reform
Before a Hispanic White House, Comes a Hispanic Leader
The Battle Begins over the Meaning of the U.S. Constitution
The Constitution of the United States
Immigration Reform, an Anathema for All except Mexican Americans
STANDING with the ELEVEN MILLION, Welcoming the Strangers in Our Midst
81 Percent of Americans Favor Legalizing Undocumented Immigrants
The Obama Presidency Continues to Dim
The Enthusiasm for Obama has Come and Gone, We must Look for Another
Birthright Citizenship Looms as Immigration Fight
Political Battle on Illegal Immigration Shifts to States
Immigration Overhaul Effort is Dead
More States Duplicate Arizona's Tougher Immigration Rules
Domestic Car Brands Fall Behind With Hispanics
The Dream Act Joins Operation Wetback as Shameful Tradition
Failed Immigration Dream Act Vote Leaves Obama Policy in Disarray

Defeat of Dream Act Reveals Once Again Failed Obama Strategy

The Coming Hispanic Revolution, Viva La Revoluciσn
Obama should Not Seek Re-Election in 2012
Obama's Promesa Por Cumplir (Unkept Promise)

How Cubans Come to America

How Mexicans Come to America

How Puerto Ricans Come to America

Why Cubans Vote Republican

Marco Antonio Rubio

Numbers USA, a Little Known Group, Claims Immigration Defeat Victory

New Mexico News begins Solidarity USA

 

SANTA FE, NM (By Jon Garrido, The Jon Garrido Network) December 6, 2010, revised July 31, 2011 —  With the outcome of the 2010 elections, the probability of Immigration Reform is less than zero.

 

The only way now to achieve Immigration Reform is to organize a new organization modeled after the Solidarity movement used in Poland that was molded from labor unions, the Catholic Church and the people of Poland.

 

If the same model is used in the USA, Immigration Reform will have a better probability of being achieved primarily for Mexican undocumented and those that come from Central and South America.

 

A three prong national campaign strategy to achieve Immigration Reform in 2013 will be first to orchestrate a national political campaign to elect members of Congress who support Immigration Reform in the November 6, 2012 elections.

 

Priority will be given to defeat members of the U.S. House of Representatives and United States Senate who do not support Immigration Reform. At the top of the list as they come up for re-election is Jeff Sessions from Alabama, Jon Kyl and John McCain from Arizona, John Cornyn from Texas, and Charles Grassley from Iowa. Unfortunately, they are many more! All names are provide below who voted Nay!

 

Equally important is the second component of Solidarity USA to use similar processes Numbers USA uses in mobilizing support across the United States that primarily uses hate talk radio, position papers, emails and faxes sent to members of Congress to vote "no" on Immigration Reform.

 

Solidarity USA will uses some of the processes used by Numbers USA obviously with modifications to support electing members of Congress who support Immigration Reform and to lobby all members of Congress to vote for the approval of Immigration Reform.

 

The third prong will be to elect a United States senator who is a Mexican American to lead the debate in the well of the United States Senate. Immigration Reform is a Mexican American issue. It is not a priority in the Cuban American or Puerto Rican American communities.

 

The first opportunity to elect a Mexican American senator is November 6, 2012, taking office in January of 2013.

 

To achieve all goals, Solidarity USA will establish a national grass roots organization with state and local offices throughout the USA.

 

The national office will be located in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

 

To finance a national political campaign, Solidarity USA will solicit funds from corporate sponsors who will be identified as friends of Solidarity USA.

 

Solidarity USA will endorse and recommend America's Hispanics purchase goods and services from our "friends" across the United States.

 

On June 20, 2011, The Jon Garrido Network purchased www.SolidarityUSA.org which is now the Solidarity USA website as the organization is chartered and incorporated to pursue its mission.

 

Posada Strategy to include all churches

Discontent presently fills the air in Hispanic political circles, much of it aimed at President Obama.

Hispanic community feelings run deep on the subject of immigration reform. Little is more painful to the Hispanic voter coalition than the vision of beloved, upstanding children, educated in American schools, being deported to countries they barely know because years ago, their parents brought them to the U.S. for a better, poverty-free life.

California pastor Ryan J. Bell reflected prevailing political bitterness over the DREAM Act defeat, Still No Room in the Inn:

"It is more than a little ironic Jesus, within days of his birth, found himself immigrating to Egypt with his family to escape the tyranny of King Herod the Great who ordered the execution of all male children in Judea. Had he grown up in similar circumstances in our country, Jesus would have been the perfect candidate for the DREAM Act...

"Many of the children who come to this country without proper documentation, come... for the same reasons Jesus fled to Egypt -- to escape poverty or physical danger (or both) and to seek better opportunities for themselves and their children...

"... many of the 41 Senators who voted against the DREAM Act sing songs celebrating the birth of Jesus and shower one another with gifts they might bear in mind Jesus lived and died for precisely the people who would most benefit from legislation like the DREAM Act. In fact, Jesus was one of those immigrant kids himself."

Traveling With Mary and Joseph Praying Las Posadas by Mathew Kessler, writes: The Bible mentions the travels of countless personalities: Abram and Sarai left Ur and set out for Canaan. The people of Israel traveled from slavery in Egypt to a new life and identity in the Promised Land.

Elijah walked (or ran, rather) to escape the army of Jezebel, who wanted him killed. Joseph and Mary traveled too. According to Saint Matthew, they went to Bethlehem for the census, where God provided them shelter as God had provided shelter for their ancestors. And the Second Vatican Council evoked strong biblical images when it called the Catholic Church a “pilgrim Church” (Lumen Gentium 48).

Hispanics experience God here and now. They know God travels with them whether they are migrants from Mexico thinning beets in Colorado, dishwashers from Guatemala in St. Louis, gardeners from Venezuela in Chicago, or garment workers from Ecuador in New York. For nine
days before Christmas, Hispanics remember the journey of Joseph and Mary as they searched for lodging (posada) in Bethlehem. Throughout small pueblos and in the neighborhoods of large cities, Hispanics relive the anxiety of the holy couple. They also add prayers for their loved ones who have made a trip to the north in search of a better life.

Las Posadas is a touching ceremony that can help Christians today see the real needs of those who live without the security of health insurance, a steady job, or a loving family.

May this novena stir hearts to make room for those who travel and do not know what they will eat or where they will sleep tonight.

Hispanic News is organizing Solidarity USA using America's churches to join together to build a national constituency to support Immigration. The concept is now being drafted.

Dream Act Students

 

Now being drafted

 

Corporate America

 

Now being drafted

 

Solidarity USA

 

This mission can not be achieved in a vacuum. Only with the support of all who endorse Immigration Reform are invited to join and participate. We do not have all the answers. Your comments are welcomed on the formation of Solidarity USA.

 

Jon Garrido

Jon@JonGarrido.com

Solidarity USA

Santa Fe, New Mexico

Immigration Reform in 2013

 

Voting on Dream Act, U.S. Senate, December 18, 2010

 

Three Republicans - Indiana's Dick Lugar, Utah's Bob Bennett and Alaska's Lisa Murkowski - were among the yes votes. Six Democrats voted no: Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Max Baucus and John Tester of Montana, Kay Hagan of North Carolina, Ben Nelson of Nebraska, and Mark Pryor of Arkansas. The bill had already passed the House.

 

Hispanics beginning in with the 2012 election should target all senators (mostly Republicans but some Democrats) who voted Nay for defeat.

 

Vote Counts: YEAs   (For Dream Act) 55
  NAYs  (Against Dream Act) 41
  Not Voting 4

 

Alphabetical by Senator Name
Akaka (D-HI), Yea
Alexander (R-TN), Nay
Barrasso (R-WY), Nay
Baucus (D-MT), Nay
Bayh (D-IN), Yea
Begich (D-AK), Yea
Bennet (D-CO), Yea
Bennett (R-UT), Yea
Bingaman (D-NM), Yea
Bond (R-MO), Nay
Boxer (D-CA), Yea
Brown (D-OH), Yea
Brown (R-MA), Nay
Brownback (R-KS), Nay
Bunning (R-KY), Not Voting
Burr (R-NC), Nay
Cantwell (D-WA), Yea
Cardin (D-MD), Yea
Carper (D-DE), Yea
Casey (D-PA), Yea
Chambliss (R-GA), Nay
Coburn (R-OK), Nay
Cochran (R-MS), Nay
Collins (R-ME), Nay
Conrad (D-ND), Yea
Coons (D-DE), Yea
Corker (R-TN), Nay
Cornyn (R-TX), Nay
Crapo (R-ID), Nay
DeMint (R-SC), Nay
Dodd (D-CT), Yea
Dorgan (D-ND), Yea
Durbin (D-IL), Yea
Ensign (R-NV), Nay
Enzi (R-WY), Nay
Feingold (D-WI), Yea
Feinstein (D-CA), Yea
Franken (D-MN), Yea
Gillibrand (D-NY), Yea
Graham (R-SC), Nay
Grassley (R-IA), Nay
Gregg (R-NH), Not Voting
Hagan (D-NC), Nay
Harkin (D-IA), Yea
Hatch (R-UT), Not Voting
Hutchison (R-TX), Nay
Inhofe (R-OK), Nay
Inouye (D-HI), Yea
Isakson (R-GA), Nay
Johanns (R-NE), Nay
Johnson (D-SD), Yea
Kerry (D-MA), Yea
Kirk (R-IL), Nay
Klobuchar (D-MN), Yea
Kohl (D-WI), Yea
Kyl (R-AZ), Nay
Landrieu (D-LA), Yea
Lautenberg (D-NJ), Yea
Leahy (D-VT), Yea
LeMieux (R-FL), Nay
Levin (D-MI), Yea
Lieberman (ID-CT), Yea
Lincoln (D-AR), Yea
Lugar (R-IN), Yea
Manchin (D-WV), Not Voting
McCain (R-AZ), Nay
McCaskill (D-MO), Yea
McConnell (R-KY), Nay
Menendez (D-NJ), Yea
Merkley (D-OR), Yea
Mikulski (D-MD), Yea
Murkowski (R-AK), Yea
Murray (D-WA), Yea
Nelson (D-FL), Yea
Nelson (D-NE), Nay
Pryor (D-AR), Nay
Reed (D-RI), Yea
Reid (D-NV), Yea
Risch (R-ID), Nay
Roberts (R-KS), Nay
Rockefeller (D-WV), Yea
Sanders (I-VT), Yea
Schumer (D-NY), Yea
Sessions (R-AL), Nay
Shaheen (D-NH), Yea
Shelby (R-AL), Nay
Snowe (R-ME), Nay
Specter (D-PA), Yea
Stabenow (D-MI), Yea
Tester (D-MT), Nay
Thune (R-SD), Nay
Udall (D-CO), Yea
Udall (D-NM), Yea
Vitter (R-LA), Nay
Voinovich (R-OH), Nay
Warner (D-VA), Yea
Webb (D-VA), Yea
Whitehouse (D-RI), Yea
Wicker (R-MS), Nay
Wyden (D-OR), Yea