President Barack Obama: Hispanic Voters

Republican Party Dept: In "Immigration Wars: Forging an American Solution," Bush writes that the immigration debate holds serious consequences for the nation and members of his Republican party, calling fellow Republicans "remarkably tone-deaf when it comes to courting Hispanic voters to the extent they court them at all." If the GOP fails to change, he says the influence of Hispanic voters "will doom" the party's future, according to Montreal Gazette. The book, to be released Tuesday, arrives as President Barack Obama and Congress consider the revamping of the nation's immigration laws following Obama's re-election, in which the growing Hispanic electorate went overwhelmingly for the president. In the primary elections leading up to his nomination, Romney suggested that illegal immigrants self deport themselves to their countries of origin and wASHINGTON - Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush writes in a new book that Mitt Romney moved so far to the right on immigration that it proved "all but impossible" for the Republican presidential nominee to appeal to Hispanic voters last year. He says the U.S. needs to completely overhaul its immigration policies but cautions against providing a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants. Bush is the son and brother of former U.S. presidents who has been mentioned as a possible Republican presidential candidate in 2016, speculation he has tried to tamp down, although he is going across the country to promote his book and will address conservatives at a Conservative Political Action Conference later this month. Jeb Bush's wife Columba was born in Mexico. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.