The harsh stand on immigration by some GOP candidates surprises Lionel Sosa, a Republican ad man who calls the rising anti-immigrant rhetoric "grossly insensitive and irresponsible."
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Freshman Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) remains a Tea Party favorite and, despite his protests to the contrary, the leading vice presidential candidate for the Republican Party in 2012. Central to Rubio's appeal is his Cuban-American heritage.
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Republicans who are eager to repair the party's battered image among Hispanic voters and unseat President Obama next year have long promoted a single-barrel solution to their two-pronged problem: putting Sen. Marco Rubio on the national ticket.
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Republicans at an immigration summit Wednesday in Salt Lake City said that a continuation of harsh rhetoric on the polarizing issue — notably among GOP presidential hopefuls — will cost the party the White House in 2012 — and possibly beyond.
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This October 26th marks the fifth anniversary of President George W. Bush's signing the law to build a 700-mile fence on the U.S.-Mexico border. Five years later the "border security first" approach has gotten us nowhere. Yet, it's still the number one response from GOP Presidential candidates when asked...
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David Frum is an immigration restrictionist who argues that the U.S. is hurt by permitting so many unskilled workers to come here. But he doesn't think that the conservative rank-and-file understands the politics of the issue.
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Writing at the Daily Beast, Michael Medved, the talk show host and self-described "Conservative Champion," has a message for the GOP presidential candidates: stop obsessing about immigration.
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Oct 24, 2011
Ivan Segura, a U.S. citizen who was born in Mexico, shakes his head when the Republican presidential candidates talk about illegal immigration. "They're not talking about what to do about those who are already here," said Segura, who works as an advocate for immigrants in South Carolina.
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Senator Marco Rubio, a rising Republican star, confronted questions on Thursday that he had embellished his family history and misrepresented the year his parents first left Cuba for the United States.
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Republicans have an opening to steal some of the Latino vote, given that President Obama's approval rating among them has hit a new low, but the candidates will have a hard time winning them if they keep throwing red meat to their anti-immigration base.
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