La Opinión has a withering editorial today about Secure Communities (a.k.a. S-Comm). It’s a brutal takedown of a failed program: Because of its inability to act in a consistent manner, the Secure Communities program has set an example of incompetence in the federal bureaucracy. Through confusion and a lack of...
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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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Apr 4, 2012
When I said recently that President Obama has a habit of not being truthful about his immigration record, an angry Obama supporter demanded that I give specifics. There are so many examples that it's tough to keep track.
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While campaigning in Wisconsin yesterday, Mitt Romney debuted a new line of attack against President Obama—focusing on immigration. Said Romney, referring to immigration, "This has always been a priority for the President he chooses to do nothing about."
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Mar 26, 2012
President Obama's reelection team wants to turn Arizona from red to blue in 2012 with the help of Latino voters, but it will have to reverse a decades-old problem to accomplish that goal.
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In the run-up to the 2012 presidential election, many Hispanics are talking about voting for the lesser of two evils. The hard part is figuring out the lesser evil. African-Americans aren't facing the same dilemma, and yet many of those on the far left are also disappointed in President...
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A positive development in the deportation case of Alfonso Garcia. He's undocumented, a DREAMer and he's married to a US citizen. But, the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which prohibits federal recognition of same-sex benefits, complicates the situation, because Alfonso is married to Brian Willingham.
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Eva Longoria appeared on MSNBC this afternoon on Andrea Mitchell Reports to discuss her role as one of the national co-chairs for President Barack Obama's re-election campaign. Longoria is one of seven Latinos who were appointed as co-chairs for Obama for America -- something Longoria points out was not...
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A leading House Democrat on immigration issues is hammering the Obama administration this week over its efforts to deport an undocumented family man in South Carolina.
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Mar 14, 2012
Whenever I hear stories such as that of Daniela Pelaez, the illegal immigrant and valedictorian at a Miami high school who was set for deportation to Colombia by the Obama administration, I get depressed.
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