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The cost of Immigration in Florida
Florida, with the nation’s third largest immigrant population, faces rising costs linked to higher poverty rates, lower educational achievement and lack of medical insurance that plague those...
View ArticleGOP takes a hit among Hispanics
After a bitter battle over immigration during the past year that featured Republicans complaining about immigrants, the GOP is losing it’s headway among Hispanic voters. Sen. Mel Martinez, R-Fla., had...
View ArticleLegislature moves to tackle immigration bills
A Legislature reluctant to tackle immigration policy in an election year made its first foray into the issue Tuesday with a proposal to kick out of the country illegal immigrants in Florida’s prisons...
View ArticleRubio takes a detour on immigration debate
Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio, the son of immigrants and the chamber’s first Cuban-American presiding officer, is navigating a quagmire over immigration policy that could spill into his future job...
View ArticleMartinez to students: Learn English and “all doors can be open to you”
Luis Zaragoza, the Sentinel’s higher education reporter, just filed this report: Florida Sen. Mel Martinez stopped by Edgewater High School in Orlando today to say "Los felecito" — "I congratulate you"...
View ArticleOrange Demo. Chief: GOP Buys Hispanic ‘Props’ for Ballot
Orange County Democratic party chief Bill Robinson fired back at his Republican counterpart late Tuesday, saying that the local GOP’s slate of Hispanic candidates partly reflects an attempt to buy...
View ArticleWho’s your amigo? McCain, Obama campaigns differ
Victor Ramos just filed this piece on the John McCain campaign’s new immigration ad that assails Barack Obama for helping to "kill" the immigration reform bill that died in the U.S. Senate last year:...
View ArticleCentral Florida Hispanics — the Republican ones, anyway — are rallying around...
Central Florida Hispanics — the Republican ones, anyway — are lining up behind GOP gubernatorial nominee Rick Scott despite his support of an Arizona-style immigration law that many of them oppose....
View ArticleGov. Rick Scott steps back a bit from E-Verify pledge
Gov. Rick Scott stopped in Orlando Thursday for a brief meeting with a trade official from Canada. He emerged with an agreement in which we promised to increase the supply of giant cockroaches to the...
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Photos, Videos: Police called to Rubio’s office during march
A rally and march by immigration reform activists from across Florida briefly turned tense when Orlando Police officers were dispatched to the central Florida office of Sen. Marco Rubio, Thursday. The...
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