In advance of the Republican National Convention next week, the political chatter in recent days has refocused on the importance of the Latino vote in the 2012 election. Mitt Romney apparently now has a goal of winning at least 38% of the Latino vote nationwide–despite all the polls that...
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Romney’s “Just Trust Me” Campaign Just Doesn’t Cut it On Immigration, Especially Given Campaign’s Tacit Approval of Anti-DREAMer Lawsuit This week has seen renewed chatter about the importance of Latino voters to the 2012 elections. Coverage has focused on the news that Mitt Romney’s campaign has a goal of...
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With the news that Maricopa County’s Sheriff Joe Arpaio will be attending next week’s Republican National Convention, we have compiled a list of convention guests and delegates whose positions on immigration could be described as bad, worse, and worser. As talk show host Carlos Galindo reacted to the Sheriff Arpaio news on Daily...
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Univisión anchor Jorge Ramos has written an insightful “Letter to Republicans” ahead of the Republican National Convention in Tampa. Ramos, along with his colleague Maria Elena Salinas, will host both President Obama and Mitt Romney on Univisión’s “Meet the Candidate” forums on separate nights prior to the 2012 elections....
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Sometimes I really wonder if Rep. Steve King (R-IA) is for real. Think Progress today quoted King’s comments from a recent Iowa town hall: King said: I went to the Iowa State website and I typed in “multicultural” and it came back to me, at the time, 59...
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Kris Kobach today joined with Roy Beck of NumbersUSA and Chris Crane of the ICE union to file a lawsuit against DHS and Janet Napolitano
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Kris Kobach, immigration advisor to the Romney campaign, architect of the infamous Arizona and Alabama immigration laws, and driving force behind the Republican Party’s hard line platform on immigration, today joined with Roy Beck of NumbersUSA, the head of a leading anti-immigrant organization, and Chris Crane, the head of...
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