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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Jul 11, 2008

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NCLR CHALLENGES MCCAIN AND OBAMA TO REIN IN PARTY RHETORIC ON IMMMIGRATION

San Diego, CA– The country's largest national Latino civil rights and advocacy organization today challenged presumptive presidential nominees Senators Barack Obama and John McCain to rein in offensive and charged rhetoric on immigration in their respective parties' congressional campaigns this fall. The challenge comes just days before they are both scheduled to address the National Council of La Raza’s (NCLR) Annual Conference in San Diego.

"Senators McCain and Obama have both been leaders in the immigration reform effort and have urged a thoughtful and well-informed debate on this difficult issue,â€