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With both sides eying one of the fastest-growing blocs in the American electorate, President Barack Obama's re-election campaign on Wednesday announced an aggressive outreach to Latino voters, pushing Democrats' reform proposals and casting Mitt Romney as "extreme" on immigration issues.
Not only do Latinos account for 16 percent of the total U.S. population, they are also a formidable presence in many of the swing states like Colorado, and Arizona that could make the final difference in November. Obama campaign deputy manager Stephanie Cutter discusses.
The new "Latinos for Obama" effort includes on-the-ground volunteer and staff outreach as well as Spanish-language ads slated to air in heavily Hispanic swing states Colorado, Florida, and Nevada.
Backers of the president hope that Romney's embrace of Arizona's controversial immigration law as well as his pledge to oppose the DREAM Act -- which would offer a path to citizenship for some children who were brought to the United States illegally at an early age -- will mobilize Latinos against the presumptive Republican nominee.
"This election is an opportunity in this country for the Latino community to send a message," said Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., on a conference call announcing the new push. "The reality is that we look at this as the civil rights issue of our time."
Opposition to the DREAM Act is "insulting" to Hispanic families, added San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro, who -- echoed by campaign manager Jim Messina -- labeled Romney's positions "the most extreme nominee that the Republican party has ever had on immigration."
Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida has pushed for a "conservative alternative" to the DREAM Act, which would allow some young illegal immigrants to stay in the United States but would prevent them from attaining citizenship. Messina said Wednesday that the president has been focused on reviving the original legislation, which failed in the Senate by a narrow margin late in 2010, but added that the White House would work to "find common ground" with those on the other side of the aisle.
The Republican National Committee announced its own Latino-focused program earlier this week, launching community outreach directors in Florida, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina and Virginia. A key part of their message, said chairman Reince Priebus, is to highlight the impact the nation's sluggish economy has on the Hispanic community.
Hispanic voters favored Obama over Republican John McCain by an almost 2-1 margin in the 2008 presidential election. Nationally, the Hispanic vote in 2008 rose to 9 percent of the electorate, up from 8 percent in 2004, but turnout jumped by five points in swing states Colorado and Nevada and by nine points in New Mexico.
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Under DOD cover, he already has a foreign intelligence service handling organized crime to keep me safe from the bad guys...
Hell, his whole re-election and criminal defense -just like that of animal whoop-is holding a larger and larger segment of people who he took rights away from (by forcing them to be part of the same program whose deeper spectrum is responsible for the war crimes their lighter fabricated pretext is suppressing) responsible for the consequences of more pointless and horrific using them...
Its the most shameful predicate that the animal whoop relies on saying our increasingly shameful and horrific activity will give the bad guys ammunition and that's why it needs to get more shameful and horrific against innocent citizens giving them more hypothetical ammunition to legitimize even more shameful and horrific and pointless activity that is well beyond what a dictatorship would ever engage in because somehow the accountability is transferred to the lighter victims under the ultimate pretext of keeping me safe from the bad guy and that somehow they are responsible for anything that happens if how they were abused was revealed...
But this predicate only legitimized the most sickening destruction of any citizen he pleases always against the back drop being held accountable for the most sickening activity will give the bad guys ammunition...
But concealing it only means they won because we are living in one of the nastiest nations on earth now...
Under DOD cover, he already has a foreign intelligence service handling organized crime to keep me safe from the bad guys...
Hell, his whole re-election and criminal defense -just like that of animal whoop-is holding a larger and larger segment of people who he took rights away from (by forcing them to be part of the same program whose deeper spectrum is responsible for the war crimes their lighter fabricated pretext is suppressing) responsible for the consequences of more pointless and horrific activity using them...
Its the most shameful predicate that the animal whoop relies on saying our increasingly shameful and horrific activity will give the bad guys ammunition and that's why it needs to get more shameful and horrific against innocent citizens giving them more hypothetical ammunition to legitimize even more shameful and horrific and pointless activity that is well beyond what a dictatorship would ever engage in because somehow the accountability is transferred to the lighter victims under the ultimate pretext of keeping me safe from the bad guy and that somehow they are responsible for anything that happens if how they were abused was revealed...
But this predicate only legitimized the most sickening destruction of any citizen he pleases always against the back drop that being held accountable for the most sickening activity will give the bad guys ammunition...
But concealing it only means they won because we are living in one of the nastiest nations on earth now...
Because he has a criminal handicap that no dictator does and that is that the citizens he illegally abused - to absorb the full blown destruction of other innocent citizens-are meant to worry that revealing it will make him look bad to the bad guys which all activity is concealed to keep me safe while the government has 1000 times the power to negatively influence your life using them as cover..
What a handicap...
What if every criminal got to fall back to bull @!$%# like this...
So the democrats plan is to be soft on ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. Did you get the first part ILLEGAL? To get votes. Well don't democrats always do what is needed to win whether the law allows it or it is good for America??
Typical!!
Obama supporters....if you are a white hard working middle class American....take note! B.O. does not give a s*it about you. He wants to get re-elected for his personal reasons. Working to get the minority vote is his agenda and any other believer of his B.S. He simply wants to be a two-termer; he has already displayed his fence jumping to try make everyone happy! HE HAS SOLD OUT THE TRUE AMERICAN!
I don’t get it, illegal immigration isn’t about Latinos as this President make it out to be: it is about anyone who comes into the United States illegally and we as a country should do anything we can to stop it, and that includes letting the states protect their own citizens. We as a nation have never really enforced our immigration laws; we have liberal states like California that are sanctuaries for people coming into the united states, they can drive, get benefits, and in locals they ok to vote…. We should have voter id laws confirming a person is a citizen of the US.
This federal government needs to look at changing the 14th admendment changing the birthright citizenship law, that a child that is born in the US must be born of parents who are both US citizens. This is magnet that draws people into the country. Should be stopped. Shut offa all benefits for people who came into the country illegally.
No dream act, that promotes chain migration, but give the child legal status deport the parents who knowling broke the law and entered the country illegally.
I see a lot of anger in regards to the martin case in florida which is a true tragely, but It I didn’t say any tears on the Jamal Shaw case or the New Jersey 7; I could list a lot more. Where is the famous all sharpton when minorities get murdered by someone who came into the coutry illegally. Makes me sick.
I think it is ok to be a democrat to say your christain and, that wants the US to enforce our laws and get tough on immigration, I am ok with raising taxes, but not to support who broke our laws and came into the country illegally.