Hope For The Latino Vote

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2012/01/29/romney-on-immigration-four-takeaways-and-secretary-gutierrez-reaction/

In an article by Pablo Schneider  on the Fox News Latino website the author attempts to present Republican candidate Mitt Romney's stance on immigration in a way that would appeal to the Latino portion of the electorate, by reviving a positive feedback on Romney's stance from former Florida secretary of commerce and prominent figure in the Latino community Carlos Gutierrez. After finishing his discussion on Romney Schneider concludes his article by attacking President Barrack Obama's image in the Latino community. Schneider does so by presenting the current administrations record number of deportations and adding a comment from Gutierrez which expresses the dissatisfaction of the Latino community with the false promises of immigration reform of the Obama administration.

My concerns with this article is the interpretation on what the data means to a specific portion of the electorate. By this I mean how the record number of 1.2 million deported illegal immigrants was use in a way that would further upset the Latino community with the Obama administration.

Although I had first thought to go on a rant explaining how if the current administration was Republican that this data would have never been intentionally mentioned to this specific portion of the electorate and instead used as political ammunition to boast an extremely good run for a Republican administration. However my goal here is for those who we consider to hold the Latino vote in our electorate to reconsider some of the facts that have been presented by the Republican bias media (Fox News Latino). Those who hold the Latino vote and are concerned with matters of immigration should know that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security division of U.S. Immigration and Customs 

"focuses limited resources on three high priority areas—the identification and removal of criminals and national security threats, fugitives, and recent border entrants and others who game the system. Last year, ICE removed substantially more criminal aliens than ever before."(1)

 

I believe that this information is critical to removing a quite unappealing fact from the republican critics of the Obama administration and gives political ammunition to Obama in his future quest for the Latino vote; for the will find comfort knowing that there have not been 1.2 million grandmas deported since the Obama administration and knowing that those 1.2 million deported illegal immigrants have many fugitives among them.  

http://www.ice.gov/news/fact-fiction/ (1)