Apr 10, 2012
A siete meses de las elecciones generales, la inmigración sigue surgiendo como la papa caliente que ha solido pasarse de mano en mano entre los que dicen estar haciendo algo para solucionarlo y los que critican pero tampoco hacen nada. En el típico viraje que suelen dar los candidatos...
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As the recent FOX News Latino poll showed, Republicans are in serious trouble with Latinos. Serious trouble — as in losing to Obama by a six-to-one-margin trouble. And they’re looking for ways to dig themselves out of that ditch. So, it caught our attention when we learned that a...
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A "Colbert Report" segment this week wonders how Republicans are going to capture the Latino vote "instead of their current strategy of capturing Latinos." Colbert cites the recent Fox News Latino poll which found that no more than 14% of Latino voters would swing for the Republican Party...
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As Mitt Romney begins to pivot toward a general election match up with President Obama, he's looking to keep the focus off some of his tough statements on immigration, which have hurt his standing with Latino voters, and target the president.
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The Mississippi legislature's anti-immigrant bill, HB 488, is dead for the session, after failing to move in the State Senate. That led The Birmingham News' Joey Kennedy to write, "As bad as our Legislature is, I never thought I'd have to say that even Mississippi's Legislature is smarter than...
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The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has been in the news a lot lately. As we've reported, a lot of activists, including some of our allies in immigration advocacy, have been trying to expose ALEC and its shady dealings for awhile. It's working. Coca-Cola and Pepsi have ended their...
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Sen. Marco Rubio's recent proposal to offer a "conservative-Republican alternative" to the DREAM Act continues to draw criticism from media outlets that say it could result in "a half-measure that produces only a different sort of legal limbo" for immigrants.
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