Democrats woo Hispanics with immigration reform
By Jane Sutton
Reuters
Saturday, June 30, 2007; 7:39 PM
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Florida (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidates wooed Hispanic voters on Saturday with pledges to keep working for immigration laws that would allow more of those already in the United States to become citizens and voters.
Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and five other Democrats spoke to the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials two days after the U.S. Senate killed a proposal that would have created a path to citizenship for more than 12 million illegal immigrants, many of them Hispanic.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/30/AR2007063000764.html They also invited the Republican candidates and this is the response they said they received:
Republican presidential candidates were invited to speak to the group on Friday but only Rep. Duncan Hunter of California showed up.