Texas student "conservative" group puts on racist game...

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"Ketch da illegal, win 25 bucks!"

Texas Conservative Student Group Hosting 'Catch An Illegal Immigrant Game'

Submitted by Brian Tashman on Monday, 11/18/2013 1:45 pm

On Wednesday the University of Texas at Austin chapter of Young Conservatives of Texas (YCT) plans to host a “Catch an Illegal Immigrant Game.” According to its Facebook page, students will have to find a person “walking around the UT campus with the label ‘illegal immigrant’ on their clothing” and then turn that person in to a YCT table for a $25 gift card reward. YCT will be having a "Catch an Illegal Immigrant" event this upcoming Wednesday. The details of the game goes as follows: There will be several people walking around the UT campus with the label "illegal immigrant" on their clothing. Any UT student who catches one of these "illegal immigrants" and brings them back to our table will receive a $25 gift card. The purpose of this event is to spark a campus-wide discussion about the issue of illegal immigration, and how it affects our everyday lives. Last month, the same group hosted an Affirmative Action bake sale which charged students different prices based on their race and gender.

- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/texas-conservative-student-group-hosting-catch-illegal-immigrant-game#sthash.6UPOZcxM.dpuf

[sharp_stick]

1. Maybe we'll get lucky

and they'll start shooting each other. You know how literally these assholes take their challenges.

[LuvNewcastle]

2. How are they going to catch them?

[Gothmog]

3. One of Abbott's supporters is sponsoring this game

http://us7.campaign-archive1.com/?u=824cb3251abbeba9dfdf52496&id=143331b7c3&e=88f3e58ec1

An individual who formerly served as a Greg Abbott campaign field representative has sent out a press release promoting a “Catch an Illegal Immigrant Game” on the University of Texas campus. The press release states “There will be several people walking around the UT campus with the label "illegal immigrant" on their clothing. Any UT student who catches one of these "illegal immigrants" and brings them back to our table will receive a $25 gift card.”

The “game” at the University of Texas Campus goes far beyond a display of bad taste or insensitivity. It reflects Greg Abbott’s open hostility to Hispanic Texans. As State Attorney General, Greg Abbott played the lead role in advising the Texas Legislature to adopt redistricting plans that intentionally discriminated against Hispanic and other Texas minority voters. He has spent millions of dollars in Texas taxpayer money to defend the discriminatory plans and to argue that key US Voting Rights Act provisions designed to protect minority voters against discrimination be overturned. Most recently, Abbott has refused to support the bipartisan Dream Act which allows Hispanic students who grew up in Texas to attend Texas colleges and universities as state residents.

The former Abbott staffer, Lorenzo V. Garcia, is the same person who helped promote an equally offensive “affirmative action bake sale” while serving as an Abbott staffer.

In addition to having served as an Abbott staffer, Lorenzo V. Garcia is Chairman of the Young Conservative Texans at the University of Texas. He previously served as an intern for Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz. A copy of his “Catch an Illegal Immigrant Game” press release along with screen shots confirming his previous work on behalf of Greg Abbott are pasted below.

[rurallib]

4. Let's hope the conversation starts with how to throw

YCT off campus.

[jazzimov]

5. What if the "illegal immigrants" turn themselves in?

Do they get the gift card?

[11 Bravo]

6. When I was younger, I would have been sorely tempted to don an "illegal immigrant" label ...

and walk around the campus. The minute one of those "Young Conservatives" placed their hands on me I would have proceeded to defend myself from their assault ... vigorously.
It being Texas, the goofy fuckers will be lucky if someone doesn't decide to "stand their ground" and shoot one of them.

[Gothmog]

7. Juanita Jean is also linking Greg Abbot to this story

http://www.juanitajean.com/2013/11/18/ins-badges-not-required/

Okay, hook ‘um low today.

Texas Attorney General and Governor Wannabe Greg Abbott has a former field representative named Lorenzo V. Garcia. Lorenzo is an Idea Man.

Here’s his latest idea.

He declared to to be Catch an Immigrant Day at the University of Texas in Austin.