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Monday, November 17, 2008
Rove says immigration reform key to saving GOP
The plan includes “regaining ground among critial voting groups including Hispanics.”
Here is an excerpt:
“The GOP won’t be a majority party if it cedes the young or Hispanics to Democrats. Republicans must find a way to support secure borders, a guest-worker program and comprehensive immigration reform that strengthens citizenship, grows our economy and keeps America a welcoming nation. An anti-Hispanic attitude is suicidal.”
Rove’s roadmap — dubbed “A Way Out of the Wilderness” — was published in Newsweek. See it here.
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Thousands of criminal illegal immigrants released in Houston
Federal immigration officials allowed scores of violent criminals to walk away from a jail in Harris County, Texas despite the inmates’ admission to local authorities that they were in the country illegally, the Houston Chronicle reported this week.
The papers’ investigation found that most of the inmates released from custody were accused of minor crimes, but hundreds of convicted felons — including child molesters, rapists and drug dealers — also managed to avoid deportation after serving time in jail.
Read the story here.