CA-Gov debate highlights Whitman's immigration hypocrisy following housekeeper kerfuffle. Poll shows DREAM debate helped Dems with Latino voters. Murdoch, Bloomberg latest to lobby Congress for immigration reform. Menendez introduces comprehensive bill; Hatch fires back with enforcement-only. DREAM Act helps spur unprecedented GOTV efforts across the country.
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Various outlets report on a $300,000 radio ad campaign launched yesterday to mobilize the Latino vote heading toward the November 2nd elections. In California, Meg Whitman takes a stand against immigration reform in her first debate in the governor's race, and in New Mexico President Obama makes the case...
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Check out America's Voice new weekly resource on immigration politics, leading up to November's election-- SUBSCRIBE and get Immigration Insider in your inbox every Tuesday-- absolutely gratis. "A vote on the DREAM Act is delayed, but the debate itself could boost Dems' chances this fall. GOP Congressman blasts...
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Via Huffington Post's Amanda Terkel, Florida's Independent Senate candidate Charlie Crist says immigration reform is key to keeping social security solvent: "Studies show that 11-14 million people are in the country as non-citizens, and if we are willing to have a thoughtful, reasonable pathway to citizenship -- earning...
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In the second part of his interview with Telemundo, President Barack Obama declared that since he's not the king or emperor of the United States, he can't unilaterally change immigration law. After Tuesday's vote blocked addition of the DREAM Act to a Senate bill, Republicans who voted against it...
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The Spanish-language press devotes much of its coverage today to the setback suffered yesterday for the DREAM Act after the Senate was unable to pass a motion to debate the Defense appropriations bill to which Democrats planned to add the DREAM Act as an amendment.
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The Spanish-language press devotes much of its coverage today to the likely vote on the DREAM Act in the Senate this week.
DREAM vote this week. La Opinión publishes the editorial "A reasonable strategy" ("Una estrategia razonable"), arguing that the Senate should put aside electoral politics to pass the DREAM...
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Outlets throughout the Spanish-language press report this morning on the nationwide efforts to mobilize for the DREAM Act and President Barack Obama's commitment to support efforts to pass the bill.
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Today’s top story in the Spanish-language press is Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-NV) announcement yesterday that he plans to introduce the DREAM Act, which would legalize undocumented youth, as an amendment to the defense appropriations bill to be debated in the Senate next week. Senate to vote on...
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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute conference that Congress needs to get serious about reforming the immigration system, and Latinos need to make their voices heard by voting. She also expressed the President's support for the DREAM Act, which Jorge Ramos endorses elsewhere in...
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