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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Jan 10, 2012
GOP Presidential candidate Mitt Romney has taken harsh, anti-immigrant positions over the past few months. He even vowed to veto the DREAM Act. Last night, NBC's Rock Center on Romney's ties to Mexico. His father was born there. He's got lots of relatives still living there. And, they don't...
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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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On Friday, the Administration announced a welcome policy change known as the "Family Unity Visa Waiver", which enables undocumented spouses of US citizens to apply for a waiver before returning to their home countries to obtain their green cards.
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Why is it that Republican politicians in Nevada can't learn from recent history when it comes to Latino voters and the politics of immigration? In a key development for one of the 2012 cycle's most prominent Senate battleground races, Senator Dean Heller (R-NV) used the occasion of a...
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Gallegly is one of the worst of the worst when it comes to immigration in Congress, as we've documented repeatedly. He's currently the Chair of the House Subcommittee on Immigration. Over the weekend, we learned that Gallegly is retiring.
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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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Republican U.S. Sen. Dean Heller took a hard stance against immigration reform that would grant illegal immigrants amnesty Friday, telling a Hispanic group in Las Vegas that he does not support the DREAM Act or birthright citizenship for some children.
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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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Largely lost in the build-up to the Iowa caucuses was a moment that could ultimately prove decisive in this year's presidential election: Mitt Romney's threat to veto the DREAM Act, a bill that would provide a path to citizenship to some undocumented children of immigrants who attend college or...
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