Turmoil at LULAC

¿Qué está pasando? Congressional Republicans were quick to spread word yesterday that Donald Trump’s immigration proposal had been endorsed by the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) -- the oldest Latino civil rights organization in the U.S. Well, it turns out that LULAC National President Roger Rocha wrote a letter to Trump over the weekend saying that the WH’s framework was one “LULAC can support.” Sources tell The Beat DC that this was done without the knowledge of LULAC staff and its board, who last night were circulating calls for Rocha’s removal. Some LULAC members took to Twitter to demand Rocha’s resignation, using #FueraRocha -- Spanish for “get out, Rocha.” LULAC CEO Brent Wilkes, the organization’s representative to the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda coalition, has stated that, “President Trump’s immigration framework is an unacceptable wish list of far right anti-immigrant policies that will impose draconian measures on hardworking immigrants, separate families, slash legal immigration and build an offensive US tax-payer funded wall on our border with Mexico. ... The President is holding the lives of 1.8 million DREAMers hostage to meet his divisive campaign promises and we urge Congress to reject the framework as a non-starter.” See Rocha’s letter here.