By Diego Graglia
The Latino representatives in Congress are getting fed up with the lack of attention immigration is receiving in its agenda. On the heels of the SOTU address Obama gave last Tuesday, in which Obama just glanced at the mention of Immigration Reform, Rep. Luis Gutierrez is calling on all Hispanics to voice their opposition to being put on the back-burner of the Democratic agenda, by having no voice. If the US Congress doesn't get to putting immigration on the agenda by early Spring, then he is calling for Hispanics to no-show elections in the Fall.
Writer for the Daily News Albor Ruiz said the 36 words Obama dedicated to the issue [in the SOTU] “in passing near the end” of his speech were “at best an afterthought, at worse a bone thrown to the immigration community to keep it wagging its tail and hoping against all hope.”
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[Posted by David Kilmartin]
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