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New America Media, Op-ed, Carlos Arango, Juan Jos Bocanegra, Armando Vazquez-Ramos, and Nativo Vigil Lopez, Posted: Sep 25, 2014

After committing publicly at a White House press conference to make a decision by the end of the summer, Obama announced in early September that he would wait until after the midterm elections to decide what action to take. There is nothing conclusive indicating that any relief granted would be sweeping, bold, and inclusive in any case. Everything about Obamas trajectory tells us that it would be cautious, limited, and conflictive.

Immigrant rights activists have harshly criticized the president for one more broken promise. Republicans have denounced him as an opportunist for delaying his decision on electoral grounds and being an imperial executive usurping the legislative role of congress. Vulnerable Democratic Senators in tight competitive races and the Democratic Party leadership, fearful of a white voter backlash, gave off a big sigh of relief. And, administration insider and outsider apologists immediately lined up to defend their patron.

Sadly, Dolores Huerta is only the latest to try and pull Obamas chestnuts out of the fire with her recent quote from a VOXXI.COM interview, We have to look at the big picture and dont get caught up in saying we want it now. we are a community that can wait. And, we have to have faith in our president How ironic that she expresses no anger at the 70,000 to 100,000 more deportations Obamas delay will provoke. Multi-millionaire Henry Cisneros, former Secretary of HUD under President Clinton, has repeatedly railed against immigrant advocates for demanding of the president not one more deportation. Disgraced and separated vice president of the Service Employees International Union, Eliseo Medina, has probably been the most protective of Obama at every turn. And, Cecilia Muoz, Director of Domestic Policy Council, and Assistant to President Obama, has been the White Houses pit-bull in silencing critics of the deportation machine.

On the whole, Obamas Latino defenders all have a financial stake in his regime. They are all recipients of largesse either from the administration directly or through his party or allied private foundations. They belong to the corrupt patronage system and have gladly accepted their proverbial role as house peons who run to save the masters burning house faster than the master himself. The most immoral observation about their behavior is the lack of transparency about their personal moneyed interests and positions as they implicitly defend massive deportations of historic dimension.

The Congressional Hispanic Caucus for its part was incensed at its junior role in the jockeying for the presidents attention and shunted aside in deference to the conservative Democratic Senators. Almost two weeks to the day it finally issued a letter to the president calling on him to comply with his new promise, but refused to hold him to a date certain, and omitted to articulate any possible consequences for not acting before the years end. Muoz met with the members prior to the letters release in an effort to placate them and caution against any overreach in their demands on her boss. Caucus members are feeling the heat from the streets by immigrant organizations in their respective districts and are deathly fearful of a lower than normal voter turnout for the elections.

There is a growing movement towards political independence away from both Democrats and Republicans, especially among younger voters and advocates. This is positive outcome of the controversy.

The demand for executive action by the president was not the product of mainstream funded groups, but of independent grassroots base organizations fed up with the legislative impositions emanating out of Washington D.C. Executive action became a necessity due to the impossibility of passing fair and humane immigration reform in the face of two million deportations and family separations, and 700,000 American minors exiled in Mexico with their deported Mexican parents. S.744, the bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform passed by the Senate last year, was nothing but a sop to big business and border enforcement xenophobes, and was light on equitable legalization for immigrants.

The National Coordinating Committee for Fair and Humane Immigration Reform 2014, in alignment with a growing independent movement of DREAMer and migrant-led organizations, advocates for immediate administrative relief and not waiting until after the midterms, unless the president suspends deportations for the duration of the delay. Migrant families should not pay the horribly high price for the partys election anxieties. The relief must be sweeping and bold, and include all migrants contributing to the economic recovery of the country.

Absent such action, we recommend that Latino voters not support any Democratic or Republican candidate in the midterms that does not support an immediate end to deportations and relief, particularly in the five to nine toss-up Senate races of most concern to Democratic Party leaders. It is time to register as independent, and those already registered to re-register accordingly, forge an independent political electorate among Latino communities nationally, and make both parties work for our vote by every day addressing our problematic needs and interests as the largest non-white and fastest growing constituency in America.

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The Latino Political House is Divided: Which Side Are You On - Immigrant Families or the Democratic Party?

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For years, Republican opposition to immigration reform has exacted a steep political cost, the enmity of Latino voters.

But now some are pivoting to a less perilousargument for their opposition to reordering the nations immigration laws: Its not about keeping out Latinos. Its about keeping out Islamic State terrorists.

Georgia Senate candidate David Perdue laces into his Democratic opponent Michelle Nunn in a new ad:

Shes for amnesty while terrorism experts say our border breakdown could provide an entry for groups like ISIS, the ad says, referring to the Islamic State militant group, which was targeted by U.S. airstrikes in Syria on Tuesday.

If a country cant protect its borders, what can it protect? Perdue asks as he looks into the camera. To me the answer is crystal clear: Actually secure our borders, enforce our existing laws and, once and for all, forget amnesty.

Scott Brown, the former Massachusetts senator now running in New Hampshire against Democratic incumbent Jeanne Shaheen for her Senate seat, echoed the theme in a new ad of his own.

Radical Islamic terrorists are threatening to cause the collapse of our country, he says.

President Obama and Sen. Shaheen seem confused about the nature of the threat. Not me. I want to secure the border, keep out the people who would do us harm and restore Americas leadership in the world.

To emphasize his point, the ad shows Brown in the Army National Guard uniform in which he served for 35 years before retiring.

Contrary to the suggestions in the ads, national security officials have said they have no evidence of Islamic State plans to attack on American soil, much less their presence at the border. The point of the overseas strikes backed by Obama and members of Congress from both parties has been to destroy their capacity before they pose a threat outside the Middle East. And while there have been concerns raised about American sympathizers, they would already be in this country, not trying to cross illegally.

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Islamic State at the border: Fearful new focus of GOP campaign ads

Latino activists across the country pledged another Freedom Summerif President Obama went through on his promised executive action on immigration reform. They promised that they would flood states across the country, knocking on doors and helping Democrats keep the Senate. And they said Obama would be known as the "great emancipator" if he acted.

Well, that argument didn't convince Obama of the political efficacyof taking action before the election, and now a new poll shows that Latinos are, not surprisingly, pretty down on their party when it comes to immigration.

The Pew Research Center poll shows Democratic-leaning Hispanics say theirparty isn't doing a good job on immigration by a 52-45 margin.

These low numbers didn't happen overnight. As with other groups, Obama has seen an erosion of Hispanic support since he was reelected in 2012. Back then, Obama's approval rating among Hispanics was75 percent,according to Gallup. Even as of July 2013, his immigration-specific approval ratingamong Hispanics was 68 percent, according to aWashington Post/ABC News poll.

One year later, some 40 percent of Democratic-leaning Hispanics say he has not been willing enough topush forward with granting legal status to illegal immigrants. And that'snot all Hispanics, we emphasize, but just Democratic-leaning ones.

The White House has made clearthat something will still happen on immigration reform before the holiday season is over. And as happened with the deferred deportations of young illegal immigrants in 2012, any move will energize Latinos and likely reverse some of the downward trend that Obama has faced among Hispanics.

Buttwo years after soundly beating Republicans among Hispanics by 47 points, Obama and the Democrats haven't yet monopolized what amounts to a very important and very fast-growing demographic. And it's quite possible many Democratic-leaning Hispanics simply stay home.

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The Fix: Hispanic Democrats are really down on their partys immigration efforts