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This week, President Barack Obama will arrive at the annual conference of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) in Orlando, Florida, with more in hand than a broken promise to pass comprehensive immigration reform. He’ll arrive on the heels of his announcement of temporary relief... Continuar »

Breaking news this morning via Associated Press: The Obama administration will stop deporting and begin giving work permits to younger illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children and have since led law-abiding lives. The election-year initiative addresses a top priority of a growing Latino electorate that has... Continuar »

As the media buzz around Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) and his impending “DREAM Act lite” continues, important questions remain about what the bill will look like and what its legislative chances will be. As Alex Leary writes today in the Tampa Bay Times of the impending Rubio bill: It’s... Continuar »

WASHINGTON – Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, still hasn’t offered any immigration proposals that might  make him more sympathetic to many Latino voters-especially after taking positions in the primaries promoting “self-deportation” and promising to veto the DREAM Act. But some on the Republican side are looking... Continuar »

ORLANDO, Florida – If the Obama campaign counts Florida among the states that could swing either way come November 6th, a visit to the central region of the state shows why. The Hispanic voters I interviewed here expressed a lack of enthusiasm with the political process; some are already... Continuar »