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Mon Sep 28, 2015, 01:29 AM Sep 2015

O'Malley highlights immigration record at Latino festival.DesM Register

Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley made a case Sunday at the Des Moines Latino Heritage Festival that he's the best candidate in the Democratic Party to lead on immigration issues.

The presidential hopeful rolled off a list of accomplishments on immigration issues that he often has on the Iowa campaign trail. In his two terms as governor, O'Malley signed bills giving certain undocumented immigrants in Maryland access to driver's licenses and in-state tuition rates at public colleges.

&quot There will be candidates) who will stand before you and profess to have progressive goals and progressive values for our country, and they will also profess to have these goals and values when it comes to immigration reform and treating new Americans with the human dignity that God bestows on every individual," he said. "Let me say this, there is a big difference between the saying and the doing."

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2015/09/27/omalley-highlights-immigration-record-latino-festival/72943134/

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