So the Senate, at last, is ready to take up a bipartisan immigration bill, the result of months of negotiations among eight senators of both parties — including most notably Republican Marco Rubio of Florida and Democrat Chuck Schumer of...
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A supporter during ''Rally For America'' where several thousand people from several states gathered in downtown Las Vegas to show their support for immigration reform in the United States. Several dozen speakers including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid lent their support.
Harry Reid: ‘My’ Immigration Plans
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Stickers in English and Spanish are available for voters at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library on November 6, 2012 in Washington, DC.
Obama: ‘Sí, se Puede’ Communicate
President Barack Obama has taken at least one good page from George W. Bush’s book. He knows how to go around the Washington media. Obama, however, has taken it a step further. He knows how to go around the English-speaking...
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Senator Robert Menendez at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's (AIPAC) annual meeting at the Washington Convention Center on March 5, 2013 in Washington.
Menendez Has Helped Donors Other than Melgen
Dr. Salomon Melgren, the West Palm Beach ophthamologist at the center of an investigation involving Sen. Robert Menendez, is not the only campaign contributor who has been helped by the New Jersey Democrat. Menendez backed Spanish Broadcasting System Inc.’s unsuccessful effort...
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Volunteer Ginny Barahona of Washington hands out buttons before first lady Michelle Obama spoke at a Hispanic caucus on Sept. 5, 2012, in Charlotte.
Obama on Immigration: ‘Sí Se Puede’
So Univision planted the question, and the answer: “Will we have immigration reform by the end of this year?” interviewer Maria Elena Salinas asked President Barack Obama in one of the two Spanish-language TV interviews he gave about immigration today. He...
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A Barack Obama supporter visits the Democratic Party's headquarters in Espanola, New Mexico.
Obama On the Air: English y Espanol
President Barack Obama has been accused of campaigning after Election Day. House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell have chided him for the trips he’s made to places such as the toy factory in Pennsvylania and the...
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A car sits parked below a painting of Che Guevara in Havana, Cuba.
Castros, Guevera, Chavez — Obama’s Crowd in Romney Ad
Updated at 11:25 am EDT There are a few names not lightly mentioned in Miami’s Cuban-American community. One is Fidel Castro, and another is Che Guevera — a couple of figures responsible for the political exile of many hundreds of...
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President Barack Obama sits during a break in a taping of Univision's "Meet the Candidates" in Coral Gables, Florida.
Obama’s `Biggest Failure’ — President’s Promise Broken?
President Barack Obama, speaking about his “biggest failure” during his term in office, was asked today if he had broken the promise on which he ran for the White House. No, he said, it shows that work remains to be...
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Reagan’s `Fat Man:’ Obama’s Redistribution of Wealth — RNC ad
It was, as Ronald Reagan put it in October 1964, “a time for choosing.” “We have so many people who can’t see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion that the fat man got...
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Mitt Romney arrives on stage to take part in Univision's show "Gran Encuentro" with moderators Jorge Ramos and Maria Elena Salinas in Miami on Sept. 19, 2012.
Romney: `Obama-care’ Grandfather
Suddenly, Mitt Romney is taking credit for mandatory health insurance coverage. In the Republican Party’s primaries, it was all the former governor of Massachusetts could do to dodge the challenges of party rivals in televised debates comparing the health-insurance mandate...
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Mitt Romney, on the air in the media hold room at the Univision studios, is interviewed by Univision News, moderated by Jorge Ramos and Maria Elena Salinas, in Miami on September 19, 2012.
Romney Softens Immigration Stance
Mitt Romney softened his rhetoric on immigration today, telling a television audience of Hispanic voters that he would not forcibly deport millions of immigrants. “We’re not going to round up people around the country and deport them,” he said, in...
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