Mitt Romney's promise to veto a measure that would create a path to citizenship for some illegal immigrants threatens to turn off some Hispanic voters, whose support could be critical in a general election match-up against President Barack Obama.
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Newt Gingrich on Friday backed at least a portion of the Dream Act, saying that he would grant a path to citizenship to illegal immigrant youths who agree to sign up and serve in the U.S. military.
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On a humid, rainy winter morning on the outskirts of Charleston, Shirley Juarez is setting tables, laying out doormats and getting ready for another weekday lunch rush at El Chapin, a Central American restaurant here. It's a taste of home for the Guatemala native who came to the United...
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Republicans think that Marco Rubio is a sort of magic elixir that can instantly cure what ails them. And what is this ailment? It's the fact that many Latinos — especially Mexicans and Mexican-Americans who represent more than two-thirds of the Hispanic population — consider the GOP to be...
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Living in Los Angeles I drive by multi-car pile-ups on the freeway at least once a week. An occurrence so common that it no longer shocks or surprises. Yet it is impossible to take your eyes off the wreckage.
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As Newt Gingrich seizes the momentum in the South Carolina primary and attention starts to turn toward the next primary battle in Florida, both the Gingrich and Mitt Romney campaigns are up with Spanish-language advertisements targeting Latino Republicans in Florida.
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When Newt Gingrich stopped by WAQI-AM (710), better known as Radio Mambí, last Friday, he promised to soon be on the South Florida airwaves in English and Spanish. He has followed through, at least in part, airing a Spanish-language ad on some of the most influential radio stations in...
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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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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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