The debate over how badly Republicans have damaged themselves among Latinos during the nomination battle understandably focuses on their efforts to woo primary voters by outshouting one another with ever-more-incendiary immigration rhetoric. But what if Latinos also agree with Dems about health care, jobs and the economy?
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Nelson Javier Avila Lopez was deported by the U.S. to Honduras in October despite a court order barring his removal. Now it turns out that Lopez, 20, was among the estimated 360 trapped inmates killed in a massive Honduran prison fire last month.
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With immigration still a contentious issue around the country, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and Republican lawmakers have maintained a noticeable distance from New York State proposals that would make financial aid available to illegal immigrants at colleges and universities.
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DREAMers from the DRM Capitol Group have been hot on Mitt Romney's tail, following him to campaign stop after campaign stop in Arizona, Nevada, Florida, and New York to hold him accountable for his promise to veto the DREAM Act.
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National labor leaders have come out in strong opposition to Alabama's "show me your papers" anti-immigration law, noting the disturbing parallels with Alabama's civil rights history and calling on the state to repeal its divisive law.
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President Obama Tuesday uttered a now-familiar refrain at his first news conference of the year: a large Latino turnout in November could trigger greater support for immigration reform.
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Cristina Espinosa has a problem. A dyed-in-the-wool Republican, she longs to see President Barack Obama ousted from the White House. "How horrible the Obama administration has been, particularly with Mexican-Americans and Mexican immigrants.
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A Mexican immigrant who passed the New York bar exam last year cannot work as a lawyer because he was brought to the U.S. illegally as a child, and his situation could soon become part of a national debate.
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Arizona's extremist immigration law has gone another round in federal court — and lost again. The judge who rejected several of its provisions in 2010 temporarily blocked another section last week, the one making it a crime for day laborers to look for work on the street.
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A high school valedictorian in Miami who had been threatened with imminent deportation has won at least a two-year reprieve, The Miami Herald reports. Daniela Pelaez, of North Miami Senior High School, was ordered by a federal immigration judge last week to leave the country by the end of...
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