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...despite the President's occasional public statements, has been virtually non-existent - could move Republicans forward. Or a backlash against the massive protests planned by pro-immigration groups in coming days could make them dig in their heels. The Senate's dealmakers -John McCain, Ted Kennedy, Chuck Hagel, Mel Martinez, Barack Obama and others - say they will continue their weekly meetings in search of a compromise. For now though, as Kennedy put it in what amounted to a major understatement, ?politics got in front of policy...
...gains that he is credited with having made among culturally conservative but traditionally Democratic Hispanics, who gave him 40% of their vote in 2004 and are believed to have been crucial to his re-election. Hispanics account for about half the population increase in the U.S. Florida Senator Mel Martinez, a Republican, warned his party last week that it risks losing ground with "individuals who share our values on so many different issues." Former Republican Party chairman Ed Gillespie, a close adviser to the White House, said, "The Republican majority already rests too heavily on white voters, and current demographic...
...which way is really in the American tradition? In some respects, that's beside the point, because the immigration debate, like immigration itself, is a bet on the future. "Immigrants don't come to America to change America," says Florida Senator Martinez, who arrived from Cuba when he was 15. "Immigrants come to America to be changed by America." But either way, they come...
...avoid the death penalty, Batres-Martinez pleaded guilty to the murder of Sister Helena Maria, attempted aggravated murder of Sister Mary Louise and rape of both nuns. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole...
...immigration authorities, they were characteristically ineffectual. On Sept. 5, four days after the murder, the INS faxed an immigration detainer to the Klamath County jail, concerning Maximiliano Silerio Esparza, also known as Victor Batres-Martinez: "You are advised that the action below has been taken by the Immigration and Naturalization Service concerning the above-named inmate of your institution: Investigation has been initiated to determine whether this person is subject to removal from the United States...