TKC EXCLUSIVE: Blunt's Chief of Staff says any gathering of Latino workers "probably" includes illegal aliens

This is a story that is soon to break in other media outlets and CLEARLY DEMONSTRATES THAT GOV. BLUNT'S EFFORTS TO CRACK DOWN ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION ARE AIMED AT RACIALLY PROFILING LATINOS IN MISSOURI.

Apparently, Ed Martin - Gov. Blunt's Chief of Staff - has stirred a lot of angry letters and sentiments because of comments he made in an August 17th meeting in front of the Missouri Housing Development Commission (MHDC).

When speaking about workforce immigration policy, Martin reportedly said:

"I'll tell you what's available to every developer in order to figure out who's illegal. When there's a bunch of Mexicans out there, there's probably some of them who are not legal."

For some of you this might not be a big deal but what it means for any Latinos working in the construction field is that they are RACIALLY PROFILED SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY'RE WORKING A CONSTRUCTION JOB!!!

Anti-immigration opponents don't want Latinos to speak Spanish. Fine, my mastery of the language is at a 4th grade level anyway.

Reactionaries refuse to listen when Latinos express their concern about vigilante groups gaining access to City Hall. Cool. Ignore the Latino constituency in Kansas City but remember that Mayor Funkhouser pandered to La Raza when he wanted into office.

However, IT'S SIMPLY UNACCEPTABLE TO DEPICT ANY AND EVERY GROUP OF LATINO LABORERS AS CRIMINALS SIMPLY BECAUSE OF THEIR ETHNICITY OR THEIR LINE OF WORK. And this statement from the Blunt Administration shows that their efforts are aimed against Latinos and even Latino CITIZENS who simply want to WORK and will subsequently be the target of a racist initiative to rid the state of illegals while consequently treating every Latino like a criminal.

Sadly, Blunt has failed on health care, education and jobs and his last cynical effort to stir up any kind of support is to use immigration as a wedge issue.

I don't know why, but I think people of Missouri are smarter than to believe that a Governor who has failed on so many fronts deserves another term in office simply because he panders to a small ANTI-LATINO contingent that claims to work against illegal immigration but really seeks to crack down on the growing power, influence and number of Latino CITIZENS in Missouri.