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LAS VEGAS, NV — It is well known that you should never stand between a blogger and a free lunch, but at NetRoots Nation, all rules get thrown out the window if you’re doing it for a cause. In a stunt by Los Angeles-based immigration activists, three men wearing homemade Immigration and Customs Enforcement uniforms guarded the door to the lunchroom at the liberal political conference Friday, demanding that all white attendees show their “papers” before entering. “All North European immigrants or people of European background must show ID,” shouted activist Will Coley as he stood in front of the...

Republican Immigration Position Likely To Alienate Latinos, Obama Officials Say By Michael D. Shear Washington Post Staff Writer July 20, 2010 President Obama and his political aides privately acknowledge that the government's decision to sue Arizona over its new immigration law is helping to fuel an anti-immigration fervor that could benefit some Republicans in elections this fall. But White House officials have concluded that, over the long term, the Republicans' get-tough message is a major political miscalculation. They predict it will ultimately alienate millions of Latinos, the fastest-growing minority group in the nation. West Wing strategists argue that the president's...