{"id":2453,"date":"2012-10-03T07:32:31","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T07:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2453"},"modified":"2012-10-03T18:11:09","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T18:11:09","slug":"chasing-black-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2453","title":{"rendered":"Chasing non-white votes"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2454\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2454\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/blacksforromney.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2454\" title=\"blacksforromney\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/blacksforromney-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/blacksforromney-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/blacksforromney-70x40.jpg 70w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/blacksforromney.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2454\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trying very hard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says he would honor temporary work permits for young illegal immigrants who were allowed to stay in the U.S. because of a decision by President Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Romney told The Denver Post, in an interview appearing in Tuesday\u2019s edition, that people who are able to earn the two-year visas to stay and work wouldn\u2019t see them revoked under a Romney administration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe people who have received the special visa that the president has put in place, which is a two-year visa, should expect that the visa would continue to be valid. I\u2019m not going to take something that\u00a0they\u2019ve\u00a0purchased,\u201d Romney told the Post, promising to put a comprehensive immigration reform plan into place before those visas expire.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In June, Obama issued a new policy that allows some young illegal immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children to avoid deportation. Romney criticized Obama for circumventing Congress to make the change a few months before the presidential election.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the Republican presidential primary, Romney said he would veto legislation to provide a path to citizenship for some of the young people who benefited from Obama\u2019s new policy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Denver Post interview comes as Romney and Obama are fighting a heated battle for Colorado, whose significant Hispanic population could determine which candidate receives the state\u2019s nine electoral votes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says he would honor temporary work permits for young illegal immigrants who were allowed to stay in the U.S. because of a decision by President Barack Obama. Romney told The Denver Post, in an interview appearing in Tuesday\u2019s edition, that people who are able to earn the two-year visas to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2453\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chasing non-white votes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[356,1018,1555,13,90,65,157,269,745],"class_list":["post-2453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-affirmative-action","tag-elections","tag-illegal-immigrants","tag-mitt-romney","tag-obama","tag-race","tag-racism","tag-romney","tag-usa"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/blacksforromney.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2453"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2457,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions\/2457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}