President Barack Obama's top campaign officials said Wednesday that the Republican candidates' intensifying efforts to appeal to the most conservative segment of the GOP were alienating Hispanics and other potential voters.
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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 HB 56 anti-immigrant law, noting the disturbing parallels between the law and Alabama's civil rights history, and calling on the state to repeal the law.
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For the last three years, America's Voice has been sending immigrant rights activists to Netroots Nation as "Immigration-Blogger-Scholars", and it's one of the programs we're most proud of. The conference, which has been billed as the biggest progressive conference of the year, attracts many of today's most popular...
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Some of Silicon Valley's big names are lending support to Educators for Fair Consideration (E4FC.org). Via The Wall Street Journal, we get details on this major development involving a plan by some significant players from tech world to aid DREAMers.
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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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