Albor Ruiz, New York Daily News columnist, minces no words today when he says that the Gingrich/Romney version of the DREAM Act smells of “racism”: The two leading contenders for the GOP presidential nomination, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, keep going around proclaiming at the top of their lungs that they would support a...
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Miami Herald columnist Andres Oppenheimer asks a question I’ve raised: Why did Gingrich take down the ad calling Mitt Romney anti-immigrant since the claim is true? Here is a bit of Oppenheimer’s argument: Republican hopeful Newt Gingrich, under pressure from his party’s establishment, pulled a Spanish-language ad in which he had accused his rival...
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The Republican presidential aspirants continued their bloodletting in the Sunshine State. Tonight’s debate included questions aimed at conservative Florida Latinos. Mitt Romney tried to counter his own harsh anti-immigrant proposals with the non-sequitor “I’m not anti-immigrant, my father was born in Mexico.” This statement came 24 hours after he told Univision that he does...
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At last night’s Republican debate in Florida, Mitt Romney said that he agreed with Newt Gingrich’s proposal for a sharply modified version of the DREAM Act. Romney and Gingrich favor a DREAM Act whose only element is that young people who serve in the military be given legal status. Romney’s embrace of Newt’s DREAM...
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The Huffington Post reports that Newt Gingrich’s new Florida ad attacks Mitt Romney as “anti-immigrant”. The radio ad is aimed at the large South Florida Latino Republican electorate.  Florida’s primary is January 31. Gingrich’s own immigration record is hardly very pro-immigrant, but as the Republican Party has continued its long march to the far...
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The South Carolina Republican Debate has brought out some of the worst racism of any debate so far. Rick Perry decided to recall the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War by telling the applauding audience that “South Carolina is at war with the Federal government” over voting rights and immigration. He said the Feds...
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With the other Republicans either ignoring or attacking Latinos during the six days leading up to the New Hampshire Primary, Newt Gingrich held a meeting with Latino Republicans on Sunday, complete with Spanish-language literature. As far as I know he was the only candidate to target Latinos. Gingrich might have wanted to fire his...
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Friday night I headed down to the small town of Salem, New Hampshire, to catch Newt Gingrich at his “Town Hall” at the local high school. The school’s largest venue, the gym, was occupied by the girl’s basketball team, so we were diverted to the cafeteria, which held 300 people but was already filled...
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Newt Gingrich sent out a campaign e-mail in Spanish yesterday, even though he favors a law making English the only language used by the United States government. The New York Times translated the e-mail titled “Ayudenos en Iowa” The e-mail says:  “The Hispanic community is so important to the success of this campaign and...
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Today on Face the Nation on CBS Newt Gingrich said that his immigration plan would only help 1 million of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. His plan would allow some undocumented immigrants who have lived in the U.S. for 25 years to go before a “citizen panel” that would...
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