WASHINGTON POST: … [President Barack] Obama was appearing at a town-hall-style event at the Newseum to encourage the Latino community to sign up for health-insurance policies under the Affordable Care Act. But the hosts, Jose Diaz-Balart of Telemundo and Enrique Acevedo of Univision, turned their sights on another issue: immigration.
“Your reputation has been tarnished among Latinos over deportations,” Acevedo said, referring to the administration’s removal of nearly 2 million immigrants who were in the country illegally. “How can you ask the Latino community to trust you?” …
Asked about such criticism onstage, Obama argued, as he has before, that he is powerless under federal law to further halt deportations and placed the onus on congressional Republicans to support a legislative overhaul of border-control laws… (more)
