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Friday, May 16, 2014

GOP, Rove want to make Hispanic Immigrants Felons, even while employing them under the table

forestbloggod
9:53 AM PDT
"Hispanics or Latinos constitute 16.9% of the total United States population, or 53 million people,[31] making it home to the largest community of Spanish speakers outside of Mexico according to the Pew Research Hispanic Center, surpassing Argentina, Colombia, and Spain within the last decade"
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"The Associated Press reported on May 17 that Sensenbrenner has since accused Bush of "turn[ing] his back on provisions of the House-passed bill, a lot of which we were requested to put in the bill by the White House."

According to the AP, Sensenbrenner said that

"[w]e worked very closely with White House in the fall in putting together the border security bill that the House passed," and added that

"it was the White House
that had requested two controversial felony provisions
in the bill the House passed last winter."

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Government officials said it was the largest immigration raid on an Oregon workplace in recent memory.
The arrests came the same day
that President Bush paid a rare visit to Capitol Hill
to try to revive support for immigration overhaul legislation
that faltered in Congress last week.

Federal officials in Oregon said the timing of the raid in Portland and Bush's luncheon with leaders in Congress

was coincidental.................really? and why do i remember the coincid

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