Oppenheimer: Taking Democrats to task for their opposition to free trade
Tagged: latin america, Spanish-languagePosted on: September 7th, 2007“This is the first question I would ask the top Democratic presidential hopefuls at Sunday’s first-ever Spanish-language television presidential debate in Coral Gables, Fla.: How can you claim to be pro-Hispanic and at the same time oppose free-trade deals with Latin America that would benefit both U.S. Hispanics and their native countries?
To be fair, top Republican presidential hopefuls have turned their backs on U.S. Hispanics even more than the Democrats by embracing anti-immigration stands championed by their party’s most extremist – and xenophobic – wing. “
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