Mitt Romney likes Arizona's law mandating that employers verify workers' immigration status so much that he'd push to make it national. Rick Santorum has suggested he'd be willing to split up families if some members are in the U.S. illegally. Both want tougher border security.
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Reporting from San Juan, Puerto Rico— When Mitt Romney heads to Puerto Rico on Friday on the hunt for delegates before Sunday's primary, his campaign hopes to telegraph his message not just to American voters of Puerto Rican descent but to the broader universe of Latinos, who will play...
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Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said on Thursday that he supports the Dream Act in some form. He wants undocumented students to have the chance to stay, but he doesn't want to hand them citizenship on a platter.
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The conditions are converging for another presidential election that will sharply divide the country along racial lines, with troubling implications no matter which side prevails. From one direction, the Republican presidential primaries have witnessed an epic failure by the GOP contenders to attract and engage minority voters.
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We provided an analysis of the POLITICO article, How Mitt Romney Lost Latinos, in the post below. There's a lot in that article, including a mention that Texas Senator John Cornyn (R) is trying to be the voice of reason.
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We provided an analysis of the POLITICO article, How Mitt Romney Lost Latinos, in the post below. There's a lot in that article, including a mention that Texas Senator John Cornyn (R) is trying to be the voice of reason.
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Here's a memo to Rick Santorum: you're not winning the GOP primary. You don't have delegates you can afford to lose. And alienating people by dismissing their culture is no way to win votes.
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In an article entitled, "How Mitt Romney Lost Latinos," POLITICO's Glenn Thrush details how the Republican presidential frontrunner may have sealed his fate with Latino voters by fully embracing the vision of anti-immigrant architect Kris Kobach.
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Republicans had high hopes of eroding President Barack Obama's dominance among Hispanic voters in 2012 — so great was Latino frustration with Obama's tough deportation policy and his failure to fulfill the promesa of immigration reform.
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Arizona Rep. Raul Grijalva has developed a reputation as a blunt, staunch liberal since being elected to represent his state's 7th District in 2003. His outspokenness garnered him national headlines in 2010, when he called for an economic boycott of Arizona following the passage of SB1070.
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