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“It will be as big or bigger than anybody else in this election, Democrat or Republican,” Hispanic outreach director Jose Mallea told BuzzFeed News. A laser focus on getting Latino voters to meet and get to know Jeb Bush and his family. Jeb Bush was loose before his campaign kickoff event Monday in Miami, joking around backstage and letting loose a dirty word in Spanish, a “colloquial street Miami thing,” said Jose Mallea, Bush’s hire for connecting with Hispanic voters. “I don’t want to repeat it, it was a curse word,” he said in a phone interview. That wasn’t all,...

President Obama took office vowing to go after unscrupulous employers who hire illegal immigrants, but worksite audits have plunged over the last year and a half, according to a report released Tuesday by the Center for Immigration Studies, tumbling along with the rest of immigration enforcement. Fewer owners are being arrested, and fewer fines are being collected as well, according to the report, which suggests that even as he offers amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants, Mr. Obama is giving a similar free pass to ever more businesses who provide the jobs magnet that draws them. Through the first five...

He switched languages 27 minutes into his announcement speech. "Ayúdennos en tener una campaña que les da la bienvenida--Help us to have a campaign that welcomes you," Jeb Bush said to a crowd of supporters Monday. "Work with us for the values we share and for a great future that is ours to build for our children." For a man who started learning Spanish as a teenager, married a Mexican woman, lived three years in Venezuela and was the governor of Florida for eight years, switching languages wasn't that difficult ... it was expected by the roughly 3,000 supporters, many...

President Obama took office vowing to go after unscrupulous employers who hire illegal immigrants, but worksite audits have plunged over the last year and a half, according to a report released Tuesday by the Center for Immigration Studies, tumbling along with the rest of immigration enforcement. Fewer owners are being arrested, and fewer fines are being collected as well, according to the report, which suggests that even as he offers amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants, Mr. Obama is giving a similar free pass to ever more businesses who provide the jobs magnet that draws them. Through the first five...

[1]Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.Most bad policies are bipartisan. Democrats come up with them and Republicans sheepishly implement them. Amnesty is one of the few bad policies that Republicans desperately try to claim as their own.Amnesty is a sinkhole of corrupt interests, from businesses looking for cheap labor to Democrats looking for cheap votes, and panic by fossilized political entities like the NAACP, unions and the Republican Party; eager to surrender out of fear that they will be be left behind by the demographic future.Those...

President Obama has claimed that prosecutorial discretion is the basis for his executive actions amounting to amnesty for illegal aliens. But the evidence is that no real discretion is being exercised.  Joel Gehrke of NRO has the story: One hundred twenty-one illegal immigrants now facing murder charges were previously released by federal officials from 2010 to 2014, despite President Obama’s previous assurances that his administration is focusing its resources on the deportation of violent criminals. The Obama administration released the figures to Congress in a May 28 letter. “Between FY 2010 and FY 2014, there were 121 unique criminal...

As former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-FL) kicked off his presidential campaign in Miami, Florida, his ties to Hispanics were prominently featured. As a college student, Bush traveled to Mexico, where he met his wife, Columba. Fluent in Spanish and referring to himself as an “Honorary Latino,” Bush has emphasized his ability to reach out the Hispanic community as one of his strengths as a candidate. However, he has also drawn sharp criticism from conservatives unhappy with his moderate positions on immigration, especially comments like when he described those who cross the border illegally as doing so “out of love.” Signs...

Vowing to fix “the static capital of a dynamic country,” former Florida Governor Jeb Bush launched his campaign in Miami on Monday to win an office once held by his father and brother. -snip- At a time when Republicans know that they must win over more Hispanic voters if they’re to take the White House, Bush emphasized his Hispanic ties--his marriage to a Mexican national, his fluency in Spanish and his deep roots in Miami, America’s gateway to Latin America. He had a diverse set of speakers introduce him, including his son, George P. Bush, the Texas land commissioner, who...

eb Bush declared immigration reform would be solved by congressional action not presidential action by the next president as he joined the field of GOP candidates in the 2016 race for president Monday. Bush's comments came in response to immigration activists who protested in bright yellow T-shirts with letters that when standing together said "LEGAL STATUS IS NOT ENOUGH" at Bush's announcement in Miami. "Just so that our friends know, the next president of the United States will pass meaningful immigration reform so that will be solved, not by executive order," Bush said to cheers.

The former Florida governor didn’t want to have to talk about immigration at his presidential announcement. But party crashers forced him to—and it’s likely to get him in trouble. Jeb Bush is getting used to hecklers real quick. He was officially a presidential candidate for about 20 minutes before a coordinated heckling campaign hijacked his announcement and pushed him into unplanned territory. It felt like inverted déjà vu; just a few months ago, Bush joined Sean Hannity for a Q&A session on the main stage of CPAC, and a cadre of Tea Party activists and Rand Paul supporters made a...

Just as Jeb Bush was introducing his mother, former First Lady Barbara Bush, to the large crowd gathered in Miami for his official 2016 Republican presidential campaign announcement, a row of protesters rose from their seats to deliver a message spelled out across their brightly-colored shirts: “Legal Status Is Not Enough.” Bush, who has been more compassionate to undocumented immigrants than any of his fellow Republican candidates, stood silently for a few moments watching the demonstrators before going off script to address them. “By the way, just so that our friends know, the next president of the United States will...

More than 100 immigrants the Obama administration released back into the community went on to be charged with subsequent murders, according to government data released Monday that raises new questions about whether immigration authorities are doing enough to detail illegal immigrants awaiting deportation. In one case, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) admitted its agents didn’t find out about an illegal immigrant’s death threats and court injunctions against him until — which should have put him back in detention — until after the man was accused of a new murder. That case, involving Apolinar Altamirano, is the latest instance of...

Hillary Clinton truly sees herself as being the next President (Queen?) of the United States, assuming the 'throne' that will be vacated by king Obomination (if he doesn't decide to remain there) in January 2017. Now on what fact do I base this premise? I believe that the millions of able-bodied people who are feeding off of government programs/amenities/subsidies/healthcare/free college, which also has been and now includes tens of thousands of illegal immigrants from Mexico, Central and South America, HAVE NO CARE WHATSOEVER about Hillary Clinton's political record/history/crimes (especially murder), which is being televised on almost a moment-by-moment basis. These...

Let’s get real. No Republican rival of Marco Rubio is going to stand on a presidential debate stage and give him grief about speeding tickets, or purchasing an $80,000 boat, or cashing in a retirement account too early. But every one of them will surely remind GOP primary voters of Rubio’s role in creating and supporting the “Gang of Eight” comprehensive immigration-reform bill. And that will be a much bigger problem for the Florida senator. He’ll be squeezed on both sides, hit both from the right, by challengers such as Scott Walker and Ted Cruz, and from the left, by...

As part of announcing his 2016 presidential candidacy, Jeb Bush released a video entitled "Making a Difference." The video spotlights how Bush's work as governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007 affected four people: a low-income student, a low-skilled worker, a mother whose child is disabled and a woman who was the victim of domestic violence. "My core beliefs start with the premise that the most vulnerable in our society should be in the front of the line, not the back," Bush says in the video. "The barriers right now on people rising up is the great challenge of our...

Jeb Bush 2016 Presidential Candidate: Spanish-Language Ad Highlights Bush Immigration, Minimum Wage Stance in Latino Battleground States Coinciding with former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's official presidential campaign announcement, a new advertisement has been released highlighting his stance on issues critical to the Latino community. People for the American Way (PFAW), a left-leaning nonprofit organization, released a 30-second advertisement stating that Bush is "out of touch with [the Latino] community." The Spanish-language advertisement will air four states with notably increasing Latino populations: Colorado, Florida, North Carolina and Virginia. "Our media program focuses on battleground states where Latinos can and will be...

After months of unlimited fundraising and making speeches across the country like a guy running for president, Jeb Bush is reportedly making his candidacy official from a locale in Miami that represents his home city’s Latino diaspora. On Monday afternoon, Bush will make his announcement from the Kendall campus of Miami Dade College, a school that boasts having the largest enrollment of minority students, mostly Latinos, than any other institution of higher learning in the U.S. Friends and supporters say selecting Miami Dade enhances the former Florida governor’s positions on two issues, education and immigration, in which he veers away...

Jeb Bush plans to declare his bid for the presidency Monday in Miami, nearly 27 years after his father was elected president. But former Florida Gov. Bush, writes the New York Times, will enter a presidential contest unlike any faced by his father George or his brother George W. Bush. And as the third member of his family to seek the nation’s highest office, Jeb Bush brings to the race a last name that both evokes the nobility of public service and a deep distrust of political entitlement, the Times writes. Bush’s campaign is using a spare logo that excludes...

Jeb Bush, the son and brother of former presidents, will announce his own White House bid Monday afternoon here, while trying to stress his independence — a sentiment summed up by his campaign logo, which simply reads, "Jeb!" -snip- Bush chose Miami-Dade College's Kendall campus for his announcement in part to display his association with the city's Hispanic population. He moved to Miami in 1981 with his Mexican-born wife, Columba, and quickly became a player in the fast-growing real estate business and local politics, helping convert Cubans to the Republican Party.

TEMPE, AZ - A Mexican National has been accused of molesting a 10-year-old girl at a church in Tempe. Hilario Ortiz Baltazar, 45, was booked into jail under suspicion of aggravated assault and molestation of a child on June 7, 2015. The man was arrested on June 7. In interviews with police, the man claimed the girl was being flirtatious with him, but admitted what he did was wrong. He also said he was lonely. He then, according to documents, asked the officer if he could go back to Mexico once the interview was finished.