The explosive issue of immigration is poised to creep back into the Republican primary battle as the candidates prepare to barnstorm South Carolina, one of a handful of states being sued by the federal government for their illegal immigration crackdowns.
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South Carolina might be south of New Hampshire, but Mitt Romney just took a hard right out of Manchester to get there. Today he proudly announced the endorsement of Kris Kobach, Kansas Secretary of State and anti-immigrant restrictionist.
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Mitt Romney, who used to try to sound like a moderate on immigration, has dropped the pretense. On Wednesday, he proudly accepted the endorsement of the anti-immigrant activist Kris Kobach, architect of the nation's most radical immigration crackdowns, including the unconstitutional show-your-papers laws in Arizona and Alabama.
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Today, FOX News Latino published an article titled, Mitt Romney Pushes Hardline on Immigration in South Carolina. That's no surprise given Romney's increasing hard-line stance on immigration reform. As we have reported, two weeks ago, Romney stated that he would even veto the DREAM Act.
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Today, Mitt Romney issued a press release highlighting his endorsement by anti-immigrant ringleader Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R). Kobach is the leading architect of the "papers, please" anti-immigration laws in states like Alabama and Arizona and has a long track record of opposing positive immigration reforms—including...
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The effort to repeal the California DREAM Act through an initiative failed to gather enough signatures to place the measure on the ballot. The deadline was last Friday. And, the leader of that effort, Assemblyman Tim Donnelly (R), was arrested for trying to carry a loaded handgun on to...
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Romney may have just become the first Republican candidate to win both Iowa and New Hampshire — and is looking increasingly like the eventual nominee — but the primary is about to spread to the rest of the country where the Latino vote is significant. Once in the general...
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Four years after electing its first black president, the U.S. could soon have its first presidential nominee whose father was born in Mexico. It's already been published: Mitt Romney's father is Mexican. George Romney was born in 1907 in an American colony in the Mexican state of Chihuahua.
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Jan 9, 2012
Fresh from his narrow victory in Iowa, Republican party hopeful Mitt Romney is facing blistering attacks from Latino and immigration activists today, who said Romney's opposition to the Dream Act is a "bridge to nowhere" which will cost him the Latino - as well as some non-Latino - votes....
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Jan 6, 2012
An informal adviser to the Mitt Romney campaign recently lobbied Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform and the DREAM Act, stances that are at odds with Romney's increasingly hard-line position on the immigration in general and opposition to the DREAM Act in particular.
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