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LULAC Urges '08ers to Place More Hispanics in Government
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ABC News' Alexa Ainsworth Reports: With John McCain and Barack Obama set to address the League of United Latin American Citizens on Tuesday, the Latino organization held a press conference Monday in Washington, D.C., to urge the presidential candidates to make Hispanic representation in the federal government a priority.
LULAC's executive director specifically challenged the candidates to reissue federal order 13171.
On immigration, LULAC president Rosa Rosales said that both candidates have not been "direct" enough on comprehensive immigration reform.
"They have not been very direct," said Rosales. "We want comprehensive immigration reform. We want Sen. Obama and Sen. McCain to be more specific about a plan of action. We want them to be specific about what their plans for immigration, health care, the economy. LULAC and the Hispanic community would like to hear more from them".
She said that she will "not comment" on whether McCain is a "flip-flopper" on immigration.
She added, however, that what she hears now from McCain is that the issue "is about security."
"LULAC does want more security," she said. "But not walls".
July 7, 2008 in Hunter, Duncan, Kucinich, Dennis, Tancredo, Tom, Thompson, Fred | Permalink | User Comments (3)
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The United States of America needs to enforce the laws on the books pertaining to illegal immigrants. Close the border and send illiegals home. Why is that so hard to understand? Let them stand in line for permission to come to USA. Simple, even a second grader can understand that.
Posted by: Mary | Jul 7, 2008 5:32:59 PM
You so called "American citizens" invaded this continent first....now what a dilemma with the English language and immigrants........you should be thankful because immigrants have contributed tremendously in US economics. You're so ignorant, that's how you show the "education" acquired in the U.S. ??????
Posted by: Rocio | Jul 8, 2008 9:59:47 AM
Inherent in these debates is that we can take the worlds poor into the US and help them make a better life - an admirable goal. Unfortunately there are 5 billion people in that group. We have to fix the corrupt governments in the countries from which they are coming.
Big business has created this flood by using grapes of wrath labor tactics to make fortunes. This is not just in farm work, but all of the way through technology jobs. This flood of cheap labor has also devastated the tech sector and driven kids from tech fields.
Both Obama and McCain are on the wrong side of this issue.
Posted by: disambiguates | Jul 9, 2008 8:44:30 AM
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