Newt Gingrich came out with a Spanish-language ad on Thursday calling fellow GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney "anti-immigrant" and "goes around using Castro phrases," the Miami Herald reported. The ad is airing on radio stations in Miami. The race for the GOP nomination moves to Florida after South...
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The Obama administration announced a relaxation of visa rules and a new comprehensive plan to increase tourism at home — the latest in a series of executive actions intended to create jobs and stimulate the economy.
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It's unclear whether farmers in Georgia and Alabama will face a shortage of workers due to tough new laws targeting illegal immigration, but some producers said they have begun changing their plans for planting and harvesting this year's crops.
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Students from several area colleges and universities will announce plans today to hold a week of events protesting Alabama's tough new immigration law. The events will run from Jan. 30 through Feb. 3 and should involve students from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Samford University, Birmingham-Southern College, the...
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Mitt Romney's attempt to simultaneously run very different campaigns in English in South Carolina and in Spanish in Florida has not proceeded as planned. In the past several days, both La Opinión and Jorge Ramos have called out the Romney campaign's two states, two languages, two faced effort.
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Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign appears to be struggling with what exactly to do with Romney's endorsement from Kris Kobach, the current Kansas Secretary of State and the controversial architect behind some of the recent past's most incendiary immigration laws.
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The Republican Party has been stuck in the middle of the immigration debate for some time. On one side, there are hardliners who oppose amnesty and on the other are more moderate GOP voters who want a pathway to citizenship for law-abiding undocumented immigrants.
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Mitt Romney faced a trying moment outside a fundraiser on Tuesday when an illegal immigrant demanded to know why he wouldn't support the DREAM Act. Romney has made no secret of his opposition to the legislation, which provides a path to citizenship for children brought into the country illegally.
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Hoping to win the hearts of Southern conservatives, Newt Gingrich leaned into his argument that President Barack Obama is a "food stamp president" and that poor people should want paychecks, not handouts — a pitch that earned him a standing ovation in South Carolina during a presidential debate on...
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Federal inaction on comprehensive immigration reform has forced the issue on state and local leaders, but Arizona-style approaches are not the solution, a group of mayors was told Wednesday.
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