Hold on to your hats: Romney to pledge today to fix immigration
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Romney to pledge to fix troubled U.S. immigration system
Mon, Sep 17 09:37 AM IST
* Appeal to be aimed at Hispanic voters, who favor Obama
* Romney looking to rebound after a tough week
By Steve Holland
LOS ANGELES, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney will pledge to Hispanics on Monday that if elected he will fix the troubled U.S. immigration system in an appeal to a rising voter bloc that overwhelmingly favors Democratic President Barack Obama.
Looking to rebound after a tough week in which he fell behind Obama in the polls, Romney will couple his immigration promises with a commitment to get a handle on America's problem of rising national debt and massive budget deficits.
This is part of the Republican's drive to spend more time talking about the specifics of his economic proposals in answer to voter demands for more information as they choose between him and Obama in the Nov. 6 election.
Romney's immigration remarks to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce will be aimed at shoring up a weakness in his candidacy: the fact that a huge majority of Hispanics support Obama.
"Americans may disagree about how to fix our immigration system, but I think we can all agree that it is broken," Romney will say.
In excerpts of his speech released by his campaign,
[font size=5]Romney did not get into the specifics of how he would patch up a deep divide between Democrats and Republicans on the approach to repairing the U.S. immigration system.
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