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Republican candidates pander on immigration

Fri, 02/03/2012 - 17:57 — Dave Culver
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  • Calling for more border walls, isolating Cuba and opposing the DREAM Act might sound forceful on the campaign trail. But that is indeed anti-immigrant, and it is coming from both Romney and Gingrich.
  • Rubio's hypocrisy in tamping down the rhetoric while supporting some of the same policies suggests a senator more interested in political calculations than enlightened policy that would benefit all of his constituents.
  • Republican Attacks Have Racist Undertones

St. Petersburg (FL) Times

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Sen. Marco Rubio would have more credibility calling out Newt Gingrich for an "inflammatory" immigration ad against Mitt Romney if all three of them weren't so wrong on immigration issues. Rubio and the two leading Republican presidential contenders embrace unenlightened positions on immigration, and they cling to outdated, isolationist policy toward Cuba as Florida and Tampa Bay benefit from the Obama administration's reforms. The candidates pandered on immigration again Thursday night in a debate in Jacksonville, five days before Tuesday's primary election.

Rubio has criticized a Gingrich ad describing Romney as "the most anti-immigrant candidate" in the field, a description the former House speaker defended Thursday night. Romney called that attack "repulsive." Meanwhile, Rubio is nurturing his status as the party's next great hope. In fact, the nation's Hispanics are much more diverse and not in step with the anti-immigration rhetoric.

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Republican Attacks Have Racist Undertones, Andrew Rosenthal, New York (NY) Times
Talking about race in American politics is uncomfortable and awkward. But it has to be said: There has been a racist undertone to many of the Republican attacks leveled against President Obama for the last three years, and in this dawning presidential campaign.
 

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