U.S. Senator John Boozman: ‘Hispanics overwhelm police’, speak jive Spanish and are unable to be educated.
Long deleted article of then Representative and now Senator John Boozman resurfaces.
The article was originally posted by the Northwest Arkansas Gazette in 2007, as part of an article by Associated Press reporter Jon Gambrell, but then mysteriously vanished from all online news sources. It was recovered by reaching out to the reporter himself.
LITTLE ROCK (AP) _ U.S. Rep. John Boozman said Hispanic immigrants coming to northwest Arkansas overwhelm police and courts with false identities, leaving warrants unserved and cases unprosecuted.
Boozman said the influx of Hispanic workers also affects schools, where children of Hispanic immigrants speak what he called “jive Spanish” and need remedial help in their own language before learning English. Boozman also wondered what effect Hispanic immigrants would have on Medicare as they age.
¶ “You’re not going to be a roofer until you’re 65 years old, working 16-hour days,” Boozman said. “We’ll pay disability for people who have carpal tunnel syndrome and can’t work. Many of those people will become disabled. They’ll become unemployable because we can’t retrain them” because their level of education is too low.
Among them was Arturo Reyes, who has owned the Acambaro Mexican Restaurant in Rogers for 16 years.
Reyes is facing deportation this month. Reith reached out to Boozman for help in allowing Reyes to remain in Rogers.
“He might be deported next week, leaving his citizen child behind,” she said, pointing to four-year-old Jesus, whom Reyes held in his arms.
Boozman took down some notes on the case and said he would ask his staff to see what could be done.
The Senator needs to be held to account. He is being challenged by former US Attorney Conner Eldridge, who won national media attention for forcing Boozman to condemn the rhetoric of Donald Trump.