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Roan Garcia-Quintana was born in Cuba. He and his family fled to America when he was ten years old. Growing up in Savannah, Georgia Roan lived the life of countless thousands of legal, law-abiding immigrants before him – with pride in his cultural and linguistic heritage melting into a love and deep appreciation for his adopted country. In the past twenty years, however, Roan witnessed a new and disturbing phenomenon – massive illegal immigration into South Carolina. Mr. Garcia-Quintana tells the story, chapter and verse, naming the names of the exploiters and the exploited, of the rampant disregard for the law and the attendant devastating consequences for his home-state. Mr. Garcia-Quintana is currently the Executive Director of The Americans Have Had Enough Coalition. This is part 1 of a 2 part interview.

Submitted on: 12/28/2007 12:00 AM | Category Interview with Roan Garcia-Quintana
Interview with Road Garcia-Quintana Part 2 of 2
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Roan Garcia-Quintana was born in Cuba. He and his family fled to America when he was ten years old. Growing up in Savannah, Georgia Roan lived the life of countless thousands of legal, law-abiding immigrants before him – with pride in his cultural and linguistic heritage melting into a love and deep appreciation for his adopted country. In the past twenty years, however, Roan witnessed a new and disturbing phenomenon – massive illegal immigration into South Carolina. Mr. Garcia-Quintana tells the story, chapter and verse, naming the names of the exploiters and the exploited, of the rampant disregard for the law and the attendant devastating consequences for his home-state. Mr. Garcia-Quintana is currently the Executive Director of The Americans Have Had Enough Coalition. This is part 2 of a 2 part interview.

Submitted on: 12/27/2007 12:00 AM | Category Interview with Road Garcia-Quintana


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Roan Garcia-Quintana, is an American citizen who came to the US as a political refugee from Cuba.  He likes to say that he was made in Havana (Cuba) and raised in Savannah (GA), a place that he calls home.  Mr. Garcia-Quintana was a research statistician for the SC Department of Juvenile Justice and the SC Department of Education, where he also was a psychometrician, in charge of constructing, analyzing and reporting the tests that are administered to the children who attend public schools in SC.

After working for the Reagan 1980 campaign as a pollster with the late Lee Atwater, he received a Presidential Appointment to the US Department of Education’s National Institute of Education, under President Ronald Reagan, where he was a Deputy Director.

He worked for the Gallup Organization, which produces the famous Gallup Poll, as a senior research analyst. He was a research director for the SC Joint Legislative Committee of Families and Children under the direction of Senator Mike Fair.  After that, he became Director of Information Resource Management at Savannah Technical College in Georgia.  This was followed by his appointment to the Georgia Department of Education as Director of Title I, ESOL and other federal programs.

Mr. Garcia-Quintana has taught mathematics and computer languages at University of SC and Midlands Technical College in Columbia, SC.  He has been a political consultant to numerous candidates in SC and other parts of the US and is now the Executive Director for the Americans Have Had Enough Coalition and the newly formed Coalition for a Traditional America.
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