President Obama and Mitt Romney are both playing pander bear with the Hispanic vote as they prepare for their first debate tonight. It’s so transparent that it borders on insulting.
Obama’s pandering is perhaps the more egregious. He has 70 percent of the Hispanic vote, according to a CNN poll this week. Those voters likely feel they have nowhere to go, but even they have to admit he didn’t do much to move the needle on immigration reform in his first term in office, an issue close to the heart of the community. The president failed to build support in Congress for the DREAM Act, a bill which would have provided a path to citizenship for young adults brought here without documents as children. Obama did finally issue an executive order to lift the threat of deportation hanging over that group, but there’s no path to citizenship. And it came awfully close to the election. READ MORE
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