Stirrings in the Senate Republican caucus suggest that some members are seeking a way to smooth the party's bumpy relations with Hispanic voters. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida says he is working on legislation to enable illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children to gain some form...
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Word is leaking from the Senate that Republicans, facing stiff and well-deserved opposition from most Hispanic voters, are crafting a bill similar to but not nearly as good as the DREAM Act, a bill to legalize the immigration status of young people who grew up in the United States...
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On Tuesday The Hill reported Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., was drafting an alternative Dream Act that he hoped to bring to Congress in the near future. The newspaper that covers Congress said Rubio offered no specifics on how his bill would differ from previous versions of the Development, Relief...
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I recently met Daniela and Dayanna Pelaez, two exceptional young Floridians from Miami whose struggles to gain citizenship this paper has documented well. Within the complicated immigration debate, Daniela and Dayanna represent an area of common ground.
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A range of stories today focus on Republican problems with Latino voters. It appears that across the Party GOP leaders are finally recognizing that courting Latino voters in the fall is threatened by an anti-immigrant, anti-Latino brand that has been cemented by the Republican primary.
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We got an update on this year's Walk Against Fear. The marchers, who are following the 1966 path of civil rights pioneer James Meredith, will hold a Rally Against Racism on April 7th in Jackson, Mississippi.
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We got an update on this year's Walk Against Fear. The marchers, who are following the 1966 path of civil rights pioneer James Meredith, will hold a Rally Against Racism on April 7th in Jackson, Mississippi.
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Democrats have a plan if Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida becomes the first Hispanic on a national ticket: wage a policy battle over immigration. The strategy has been emerging since the Cuban-American rising star was elected to the Senate in 2010, and it became more apparent after Rubio endorsed...
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The Senate GOP seems to be banking on the assumption that Latino voters are stupid, don't read the fine print -- or are not paying any attention at all. Panicking from a series of polls that show their years of bashing Latinos haven't been endearing them to Latino voters,...
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The news that Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) endorsed Mitt Romney for President has led to another round of pundit speculation about Rubio's vice presidential prospects, which Rubio demurely "rejects." But the chatter continues because some within the GOP apparently think that adding Rubio to the ticket could help...
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