Feb 10, 2012
As the Republican presidential race continues its unexpected twists and turns, Arizona has suddenly emerged as a critical state in the fight for the GOP nomination. The Grand Canyon State, along with Michigan, will host presidential primary elections on Feb. 28, and represent an opportunity for the Republican contenders...
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DENVER-They may be undocumented, naturalized, or first- second- or third-generation citizens, but if one thing unites many Hispanics in Colorado it's their discontent with the anti-immigrant rhetoric coming out of the Republican primary.
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Earlier this week, Mitt Romney's campaign unveiled the endorsement of former California Governor Pete Wilson (R), champion of California's Proposition 187 in 1994. Proposition 187 was the precursor to the anti-immigration laws passed this decade in Arizona, Alabama, and other states that have inspired nationwide outrage from the...
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As HB 56, the Alabama immigration law, undergoes more scrutiny, the backlash against its architect, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, continues to grow. People are fed up with HB 56, and they know Kris Kobach is the one to blame.
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Kris Kobach's ears should be burning. Backlash built this week against the Kansas secretary of state for gallivanting state-to-state, drumming up support for laws bent on driving illegal immigrants out. The rebukes aren't coming from his usual critics, those who display sanity about the federal reforms needed to effectively...
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Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, a Democrat, plans to dig into Mitt Romney in a speech on immigration reform Wednesday, when he will call the candidate's rhetoric and anti-immigrant endorsers "beyond the pale."
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During one of the Republican debates in Florida, Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney agreed that the only way they'd support the DREAM Act is to take out the educational component.
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Feb 8, 2012
Does anyone (besides Mitt Romney) listen to the chair of the House Judiciary Committee anymore?
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Pete Wilson could help Mitt Romney. Pete Wilson could hurt Mitt Romney. Both of these things are true. But the help Romney could receive from Wilson, the former California governor, during the Republican presidential primary could further wreck his reputation with Latino voters, the fastest-growing voting bloc, in the...
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As he pushed further and further to the right in his effort to fend off the corps of arch-conservative rivals for his party's presidential nomination, Republican front-runner Mitt Romney probably didn't think some of what he was doing would have much effect in the larger states that will provide...
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