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Swing-state Latinos rally to Obama after immigration announcement

By | 06.19.12 | 12:27 pm

Latino voters have responded with enthusiasm to President Obama’s decision Friday to limit deportation proceedings against and extend green card eligibility to roughly 800,000 young undocumented immigrants. But the head of a conservative Latino group in Colorado cautioned that the administration’s track record on immigration demands at best only a cautious optimism.

GOP Latino group calls on Republican senators to support DREAM Act

By | 12.09.10 | 9:06 am

Latino advocacy group Somos Republicans is calling on GOP Senators to support the youth-immigrant DREAM Act when it comes up for vote Thursday and warns lawmakers that voting against the bill will have electoral consequences. The group points out…

House passes immigrant-youth DREAM Act; Senate to vote Thursday

By | 12.09.10 | 5:49 am

Wednesday night the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act of 2010, bipartisan legislation that lawmakers have batted around Washington for years as the post- 9/11 recession-era politics of immigration have grown…