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Less than a month after President Obama announced he would delay using his executive authority to reform immigration laws, there is evidence that the decision is doing exactly what he hoped to avoid: hurting Democrats.

Activists in key states say it is increasingly difficult to register would-be Latino voters who would vote for Democrats because of unhappiness over the decision. Poll numbers for Obama and Democrats have also dropped farther among Hispanics than the population at large. One group has even launched a campaign against four Democratic senators who backed a GOP proposal to bar Obama from taking any executive action on immigration.

The president has not helped us, said activist Leo Murietta, 28, who is working to register Latino voters in Colorado for Mi Familia Vota. People are disappointed. They wanted action, they wanted activity, they wanted movement.

With so many congressional and gubernatorial candidates locked in close races this year, Democrats cant afford signs of complacency or sagging support. But Murietta and others believe that only action not promises of action will help spur increased turnout among Hispanics with just five weeks until Election Day.

Obama is scheduled to speak Thursday night at a gala hosted by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus his first appearance in front of the group in three years. The address is expected to include a mention of his commitment to immigration reform and a vow to fix as much of our immigration system as he can on his own, according to a senior administration official familiar with his plans.

But outside the gala, dozens of protesters plan to picket Obama and the lawmakers who invited him, alleging a brutal betrayal of Latinos, according to organizers. And inside the room, Obama will be among the lawmakers most upset by his decision to wait.

We would not wait until after November if it was an issue affecting the gay and lesbian community, Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez (D-Ill.), a critic of Obamas work on immigration, said at the conference Wednesday afternoon. If this was about womens reproductive rights, if this was about the minimum wage, if this was about a series of other issues, the Democratic Party would come together.

Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Tex.) said hes found widespread frustration. A lot of people understand theres a political calculation, but those same people understand theres a lot of people suffering because he didn't act, he said in an interview.

Labor Secretary Tom Perez, who is under consideration as Obamas next attorney general, sought to reassure conference attendees Wednesday. But his message fell flat.

The question of executive action, my friends, is a when? question, Perez said. Immigration, he added later, is all about his values and his leadership. And thats why I love working for this president.

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DENVER If the anger voiced by immigration reform advocates is any indication, Hispanic voters appear highly motivated to vote in Novembers election in higher numbers than they normally do in non-presidential years.

And while the conventional wisdom is that higher Hispanic turnout will help Democrats, the protestors who rallied across the street from the State Capitol Tuesday and staged a sit-in in the middle of Broadway, temporarily shutting down the road between Colfax and 14th Avenue, had plenty of anger for both political parties.

In fact, protestors directed their harshest criticism at two Democrats: Sen. Michael Bennet, who helped author the 2013 comprehensive immigration reform bill that included a pathway to citizenship and drew bipartisan support in the Senate only to be ignored by the GOP-controlled House; and President Obama, whose Deferred Action executive order has spared many of them from the immediate threat of deportation.

Their message, essentially: what have you done for me lately?

The betrayal of Bennet and Obama is not going to beat us back; were going to keep on fighting, shouted Jeannette Vizquiera, whos been fighting deportation for five years. Were going to keep on fighting.

Reform advocates are especially irked that President Obama floated another executive order to grant citizenship to five million undocumented immigrants before announcing that he will wait to take any such action until after the November election.

Congress will not act. And when the president says hes going to act, he changes his mind, said Alexis Pardo, whose parents brought him to the U.S. from Mexico when he was just 18 months old. No one wants to act, no one wants to do their job.

Pardo, an accredited electrician and welder, has had to turn down high-paying jobs because he is not a U.S. citizen.

I dont know the Mexican national anthem. This is my country the Star Spangled Banner, Pardo said. This is my home. This is where I want to raise my son. This is where I pay $600 in taxes a week. And I am being punished for my the consequences of my parents actions. I face those consequences every day.

Advocates told reporters Tuesday that they met a day earlier with Bennet, who pledged that he remains committed to pursuing immigration reform in Congress.

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Minister for Foreign Affairs Charlie Flanagan said he would convey to the US vice president Joe Biden and secretary of state John Kerry in meetings today the deep sense of frustration on the part of the Irish community that expectations have been raised in the past and ultimately not realised. Photograph: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters

The time for overhauling US immigration laws benefiting an estimated 50,000 illegal Irish has long passed, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Charlie Flanagan has said on a visit to Washington.

The Irish community in the US had experienced disappointment after disappointment as plans to change immigration laws had faltered in Congress because of political differences, said Mr Flanagan.

Hot topics are the matter of politics. The fact something is hot - and I acknowledge that it is controversial - but that is no reason for it to be ignored, said Mr Flanagan after meeting Congressman Joseph P Kennedy of Massachusetts, the grand-nephew of President John F Kennedy, in his Capitol Hill offices.

I know from my own work as constituency TD in Laois-Offaly the harrowing tales of people disconnected most unfairly over a long number of years from their loved ones, he said.

He referred to the Irish living illegally in the US who were unable to return back to Ireland for festive engagements like christening and weddings and traumatic and difficult occasion such as funerals.

The Senate, with the support of Democrats and Republicans, passed a bill last year that would put an estimated 11 million so-called undocumented immigrants in the US on a path to citizenship.

The proposed legislation has faltered in the Republican-led House of Representatives where the party is concerned about granting what they see as an amnesty to immigrants who have breached laws and the level of security along Americas border with Mexico.

Mr Flanagan said he would convey to the US vice president Joe Biden and secretary of state John Kerry in meetings today the deep sense of frustration on the part of the Irish community that expectations have been raised in the past and ultimately not realised.

President Barack Obama recently reversed plans to take executive action on immigration, bypassing Congress, shelving the divisive issue until after the Congressional midterm elections in early November when Democrats are attempting to retain control of the Senate.

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