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I think the Obama White House is going to be shocked at how little staying power this ultimately has. And, by election day, which is what this was about - this was about election day November - that what's going to really influence voters is the fact that the unemployment rate among Latino Americans is officially 11 percent. It's actually closer to 13 percent. You have about 25 million households that their home is underwater. I think those are the facts that are going to end up resonating, come November.
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The reception given to President Obama by NALEO, the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, was decidedly warm. NALEO's annual conference came only one week after the president's executive order to stop the deportation from the United States of young illegal immigrants of all nationalities now living here, provided certain criteria are met. This executive order affects the status of some 800,000 of the 11 million aliens in the U.S. It grants temporary legal status, two years, to those who come forward and register for a work permit with these additional criteria: One, be under 30; two, arrive in the U.S. before age 16; three, live in the U.S. for at least five consecutive years; four, be a high school graduate or in school or have military service; five, no criminal record.
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