Hispanic leaders call for reform on immigration within 100 days

“National Hispanic leaders are pressing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi D-Calif. and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid D-Nev. to make immigration reform a top priority within the first 100 days of the new Congress, citing the large numbers of Hispanics who turned out to vote for Democrats in November.

Several of the largest Hispanic advocacy groups in the country, the League of United Latin American Citizens, the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project and the Hispanic Federation, plan to stage a massive grassroots campaign to pressure House lawmakers to move quickly on immigration. They will team with America Votes, one of the nation’s largest liberal voter-mobilization groups, to push reform.”

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