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At his first official stop as a surrogate for his father's presidential campaign, George P. Bush told supporters Wednesday in Nevada, "My dad is the right man at the right time for this country." The eldest son of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush addressed a crowd of about fifty people at an upscale Mexican restaurant, Mundo, a few miles from the Las Vegas strip. Part of his message? Getting caucus support in Nevada, a key early-voting state in the primaries. "It is projected that there will be 45,000 caucus-goers in this state, that it'll probably only take about 10,000 supporters...

Mexico now deports more Central American migrants than the United States, a dramatic shift since the U.S. asked Mexico for help a year ago with a spike in illegal migration, especially among unaccompanied minors. Between October and April, Mexico apprehended 92,889 Central Americans. In the same time period, the United States detained 70,226 “other than Mexican” migrants, the vast majority from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. That was a huge reversal from the same period a year earlier, when the wave of migrants and unaccompanied minors from Central America was building. From October 2013 to April 2014, the United States...

Presidential candidate Donald Trump is under fire for his statement against Mexican migrants in the U.S. Trump, who announced his candidacy on Tuesday, said in his hour-long speech that Mexico was "not sending its brightest minds to the U.S., instead it was sending drugs, crime, and rapists across the border illegally," Fox News Latino wrote. http://www.latinopost.com/articles/19478/20150618/donald-trump-slammed-border-comments-against-mexican-migrants-presidential-candidate.htm

The Facebook CEO and his wife, Priscilla Chan, gave the money to the “I’m In” campaign launched by TheDream.us, a national scholarship fund for undocumented immigrants. The fund targets students who came to the U.S. as children and received Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival status, an immigration policy started by President Obama that gives them exemption from deportation and allows them to work. Zuckerberg wrote on his Facebook page that he sees the fund’s efforts as an important step in educating marginalized youth in America. “America was founded as a nation of immigrants,” he says. “We ought to welcome smart...

While the race for the GOP presidential nomination kicks into high gear, Jeb Bush continues to stand out from his competitors on one key issue; immigration. Unlike the more hawkish views of his opponents in the Republican field, Bush is unapologetic in his stance on the hot-button issue. While he agrees the border should be secured, the former Florida governor’s answer to the millions of undocumented workers already in the country would be to make them learn English and pay taxes and fines rather than deporting them outright.

“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...