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Conservative ad criticizes Obama for deportations

By Hector Becerra
August 8, 2012, 7:00 a.m.

Republican presidential candidates blasted the Obama administration during the primaries for not doing enough to combat illegal immigration. But a conservative group is launching a television ad in Nevada on Wednesday criticizing President Obama for deporting a record number of undocumented immigrants.

The $38,000 ad, which will run in the Las Vegas area -- including on the top two Spanish-language TV stations -- warns viewers: “Don’t let Obama fool you. He’s not committed to immigrants. He just wants your vote.”

It criticizes Obama for “offering our young undocumented a solution that is temporary” and does not resolve their legal status, and asks: “Why didn’t he push immigration reform like he promised us?”

The ad continues by showing Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with a handcuffed woman and stating that “Obama has deported more people than any other president in the history of the country.”

The TV ad concludes by asking: “With friends like these, who needs enemies. In November, make your vote count.”

The ad was produced by Nevada Hispanics, which is part of American Principles in Action, a conservative nonprofit.

Alfonso Aguilar, an executive with American Principles, said the goal of the ad in what is expected to be a battleground state is to “wake up” Latinos to what he called the hypocrisy of the Obama administration’s handling of illegal immigration. Aguilar said he had been critical of harsh anti-illegal-immigrant laws passed in Arizona, Alabama and South Carolina.

“Obama speaks indignantly about Arizona and sues Arizona, but then he implements an enforcement policy that is much more punitive. The rhetoric doesn’t really match his actions,” Aguilar said of the deportations.

Aguilar said he hoped Latinos would give Mitt Romney a chance to lead in November. “He hasn’t had a chance. Mr. Obama has had a chance and he hasn’t delivered,” he said.

hector.becerra@latimes.com

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MMMMmmmmmm, velly intelesting, more so from a stand point of what the story does'nt say than what it does say. Cannot say that this helps in adding hope, can't really say that it says very much. Any background on this?

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Las Vegas Sol:
Nevada political ad bashes Obama over deportations

Conservative group attempts to close Romney’s gap in support from Latino voters

By Tovin Lapan (contact)
Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012 | 10:20 a.m.
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A new ad set to air on Spanish-language television in Nevada attacks President Barack Obama for his deportation record.

The 30-second advertisement, paid for by American Principles in Action and its local Latino outreach wing Nevada Hispanics, is titled “No More Lies” and criticizes Obama for not accomplishing comprehensive immigration reform in his first term.

"Don’t be fooled by President Obama’s words. He's not committed to immigrants; he only wants our vote. With the election on the line, he offers our undocumented youth a temporary solution that still cheats them of legal status," the ad states, referring to the deferred action for immigrants who arrived in the country illegally at a young age.

"Why didn’t he keep his promise to push immigration reform?" the narrator asks. "Instead, Obama has deported more people than any other president in this country's history. With friends like these, who needs enemies? In November, make your vote count."

Under Obama, the annual average for deportations has been nearly 400,000, approximately 30 percent higher than the annual average during the second term of the Bush administration and about double the annual average during George W. Bush’s first term.

American Principles in Action is a Washington, D.C.-based political nonprofit that does not have to disclose its donors. The ad buy is reportedly worth $38,000, and will air on Univision and Telefutura.
The ad makes no mention of presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, who polls show is trailing Obama among Latino voters 70 percent to 22 percent.

Obama's re-election campaign, however, was quick to turn attention back to Romney’s stated views on immigration, which have included support for Arizona's immigration enforcement law, SB 1070.

“Mitt Romney and his allies' extreme positions on immigration can't be erased by any attack ad. Romney has campaigned with the nation's leading anti-immigrant voices, promised to veto the Dream Act, and wants to encourage all undocumented immigrants to self-deport,” said David Beltran, Obama for America press secretary.

"While Romney would have the most extreme immigration platform of any presidential nominee in recent history, the president and his administration have made significant progress in implementing immigration policies that reward hard work and demand responsibility – including offering a temporary solution to Dreamers, talented and patriotic young men and women who were brought here as children through no fault of their own, do not pose a threat to our national security and go to school or served in our military."

Beltran also said Republicans have obstructed Democratic attempts to reform the immigration system.

"President Obama is committed to passing comprehensive immigration reform and the Dream Act – proposals that would be the law of the land today if Republicans, who once supported these sensible solutions, were less concerned about pandering to the far right wing of their base," Beltran wrote in an email response. "The choice between Mitt Romney and President Obama on immigration could not be clearer: President Obama supports commonsense solutions to fix our broken immigration system, while Mitt Romney and his allies are using this issue as a political wedge."

A Pew Research Center poll from December found that Latinos disapproved of Obama's deportation record by a 2-to-1 margin but also found that fewer than half, 41 percent, of all Latinos actually knew that deportations increased under Obama.

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