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Immigration, Economic Growth Top Obama Second Term To-Do List

  President Barack Obama is pledging to focus in his second term on immigration reform,  boosting economic growth through infrastructure repair and  energy policies that nod to environmental protection. The president is mired in a difficult fight with  congressional Republicans to avoid sharp spending cuts and steep  tax increases collectively referred to as the “fiscal cliff.”  [...]

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Romney Surrogates Tap Dance Around Equal Pay, Immigration Position

  Two top surrogates for Mitt Romney declined after the debate at Hofstra Tuesday to outline their candidate’s position on Arizona’s immigration law and the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. During the debate, President Obama specifically charged Romney with ducking questions about both laws. “I just want to point out that when Governor Romney’s campaign [...]

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Romney will reform his anti-immigration position to get Hispanic votes

  By Wonda J The man who has been very hostile to undocumented immigrants, who describe his solution as selfdeportation, will pledge to Hispanics on Monday that if elected he will fix the troubled U.S. immigration system in an appeal to a rising voter bloc that overwhelmingly favors President Barack Obama. After a tough week with [...]

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What Happen to Self-Deportation? [video]

By Easton L Mitt Romney still trying to Etch-a-Sketch his way out of the political immigration box he was put in by president Obama’s explosive new policy on immigration last Friday. Through the entire GOP Presidential Primary, Romney turn up the anti immigration rhetoric delivering the harshest policy any would be president would take to [...]

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Fox News Uses New Immigration Policy To Repeat Racial Slurs [video]

By Solange Uwimana The Department of Homeland Security announced a change in immigration policy on Friday that will potentially exempt certain undocumented immigrants from deportation and afford them the ability to work here legally. The change will largely affect some 800,000 immigrants who first entered the country as children provided they meet certain requirements of [...]

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Romney is very vulnerable with Hispanics

By: Ruben Navarrette Jr. On the eve of the Nevada caucus, here’s some advice to Newt Gingrich: If you still want to draw contrasts with Mitt Romney over immigration, don’t toss in your cards. Double down. Why? Because you’re not in Florida anymore. In the Sunshine State, Gingrich used a controversial and hard-hitting ad to [...]

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Teenage crash Survivor won’t be Deported

By Easton L Lawrence The lone survivor of a family killed in a mile-long pileup along Interstate 75 on Sunday, south of Gainesville, Florida. will not be deported, according to Immigration officials. Relatives of the lone survivor, Lidiane Carmo age 15, who wants her to live with them in the United States feared she may be [...]

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Mitt Romney’s immigration dilemma

By BEN SMITH For a moment Wednesday afternoon in Miami, Mitt Romney seemed to have a solution to his Hispanic problem: Was he not, Univision’s Jorge Ramos asked, Mexican-American himself, as his father had been born south of the border? Romney confessed his parents were American citizens who never spoke Spanish. “I don’t think people [...]

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Governor Jan Brewer and President Obama in ‘tense’ exchange over book

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer and President Barack Obama engaged in an apparently tense exchange on an airport tarmac shortly after Air Force One touched down outside Phoenix on Wednesday. The two leaders could be seen talking intently at the base of Air Force One’s steps. Both could be seen smiling, but speaking at the same time. Obama appeared to [...]

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New immigration policy didn’t help Phoenix man, he struggles to readjust in Mexico

by Daniel González This is how Miguel Aparicio spends his days now after the former Phoenix high-school cross-country coach was deported to Mexico in June. Up at 7 or 7:30, he has breakfast. A cup of coffee and a tortilla. A little bit of chile, some beans. Then it’s time to take the 26 sheep [...]

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