Washington, DC – Today, Mitt Romney’s campaign released a new Spanish-language ad featuring Romney’s son Craig speaking to the camera in Spanish, along with images of the Romney family and people assumed to be Latinos. Despite being entitled “Nation of Immigrants,” the ad continues the Romney campaign’s strategy of...
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In New Analysis, Pollsters Also Outline Methods Used to Capture Latino Voter Opinion Accurately Washington, DC – After a busy month of immigration news, including the Supreme Court ruling on Arizona’s SB 1070 law and President Obama’s decision to protect DREAMers from deportation, a new nationwide poll of Latino...
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Sheriff Joe Arpaio Trial Begins This Week as Momentum to Discredit Arpaio & Jan Brewer Approach to Immigration Builds This week, notorious anti-Latino and anti-immigrant Sheriff Joe Arpaio is headed to court as a civil rights lawsuit against Arpaio’s tactics moves forward. In conjunction with the recent Supreme Court...
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The Guardian Highlights the Personal Stories of Those Affected by President Obama’s DREAMer Protection Announcement Washington, DC – While much of the reaction to President Obama’s June DREAMer protection announcement has focused on political implications and related public opinion, a new story and online feature in The Guardian (UK) focuses...
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Flake/Cardon AZ Senate Primary Battle Joins Romney 2012 Campaign as Evidence of GOP’s Outdated & Counterproductive Immigration Thinking Washington, DC – When it comes to immigration, Republican candidates remain stuck between a nativist rock and a demographic hard place. This week, a few sensible voices like Condoleezza Rice, George...
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Rising Share of 2012 Electorate Likely to Be Pro-Immigration; New Poll Shows Voters Frustrated With Inaction New polling released by Washington Post/ABC News shows that while Americans remain frustrated with the status quo on immigration, they don’t think Mitt Romney would do a better job on the issue than...
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State Comes Full Circle from Prop 187 Days to Model Smart Immigration Enforcement Washington, DC – Yesterday, California took a key step in positioning itself as the “anti-Arizona” on immigration enforcement, with the state Senate passing a bill that would restore common sense to the proper role for states...
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GOP Candidate’s Continued Mishandling of Immigration Keeps Issue Front and Center in Campaign Washington, DC – Heading into the final four months of the presidential campaign, the immigration issue remains front and center. And, GOP nominee Mitt Romney keeps ensuring that the issue will be a central topic until...
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