As part of a legal settlement that will allow some illegal immigrants who deported themselves from Southern California to return to the United States, the federal government has agreed to advertise the settlement on various Mexican and Spanish-language media outlets.

The ACLU filed a class-action lawsuit last year on behalf of eleven illegal immigrants who deported themselves. The settlement reached on Wednesday will only cover "longtime California residents with relatives who are U.S. citizens and... young migrants whose parents brought them into the country illegally" who deported themselves between 2009 and 2013. An ACLU official has indicated that there were nearly 250,000 people who were "deported voluntarily from Southern California between 2009 and 2013" and estimated to the Los Angeles Times that the "number of repatriations could reach into the hundreds or thousands."

The U.S. government, through ad buys online, in print, on billboards, and on radio stations, will hope to reach "friends and family of the affected class" in Southern California and Mexico. According to the settlement, the federal government will advertise on television channels like Univision, ESPN Deportes, MundoFox, El Universal, and the Univision Deportes Network. They will also partner with People en Espanol and even the Mexico National Football Team in addition to placing billboards "in high population Mexican border cities of Tijuana, Tecate and Mexicali, as well as focusing placements near border crossings."

U.S. officials will also place "radio ads :60 in length... on top Spanish speaking radio stations near the Mexico/U.S. border." Those who search for "Lopez Case," "Lopez Class Action," "Voluntary Return to Mexico," "Rights for Detainees," "Detained by ICE," and "Returned to Mexico by ICE" will also be targeted with information about the settlement.

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Come on back!

W-T-F

The man is turning out to be every bit the anarchist matrix loon the far right painted him as right out of the gate.

I was telling myself for a while there that they were being over the top, but now here we are. DAMN

(11-20-2014 06:57 PM)ericsrevenge76 Wrote:  W-T-F

The man is turning out to be every bit the anarchist matrix loon the far right painted him as right out of the gate.

I was telling myself for a while there that they were being over the top, but now here we are. DAMN

(11-20-2014 06:56 PM)firmbizzle Wrote:  Come on back!

The best thing for America is open honesty like this from you lunatics.

It's all about crippling the GOP nominee in 16.

(11-20-2014 07:37 PM)Machiavelli Wrote:  It's all about crippling the GOP nominee in 16.

lol

This EO hands the GOP the WH in 2016.

It was already going to be an uphill battle for the left following this disastrous presidency.

People want immigration reform but they don't want an emperor as POTUS. Throw this in with the countless lies and scandals. Ugh they are screwed.

All the polls show Americans are against this type of unilateral power play.

(11-20-2014 07:37 PM)Machiavelli Wrote:  It's all about crippling the GOP nominee in 16.

Interesting how the left delights in seeing the country damaged...as long as it might hurt the GOP.

Such petty envy, they'd sooner see the country wrecked than prosperity under a "conservative."

It's going to be interesting to see where his poll numbers go

(11-20-2014 09:37 PM)Machiavelli Wrote:  It's going to be interesting to see where his poll numbers go

What's interesting is that we have a major policy shift made almost exclusively for the purpose of attempting to raise poll numbers. Even those who support it aren't claiming it is right or good for America--just that it will help his poll numbers.

(11-20-2014 10:19 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(11-20-2014 09:37 PM)Machiavelli Wrote:  It's going to be interesting to see where his poll numbers go

What's interesting is that we have a major policy shift made almost exclusively for the purpose of attempting to raise poll numbers. Even those who support it aren't claiming it is right or good for America--just that it will help his poll numbers.

How does it raise his poll numbers when the majority of America is against this? Pollsters don't dial 2 to speak in Spanish.

(11-20-2014 11:30 PM)smn1256 Wrote:  

(11-20-2014 10:19 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(11-20-2014 09:37 PM)Machiavelli Wrote:  It's going to be interesting to see where his poll numbers go

What's interesting is that we have a major policy shift made almost exclusively for the purpose of attempting to raise poll numbers. Even those who support it aren't claiming it is right or good for America--just that it will help his poll numbers.

How does it raise his poll numbers when the majority of America is against this? Pollsters don't dial 2 to speak in Spanish.

I don't know either, I just know that seems to be the claim. What's strange is that the Latino community seems fairly evenly divided on this.

Obama's popularity is pretty bad when way over half of the Union membership I'm in can't stand Him or His policies. He is a Major Loose Cannon and will bring down His party even worse than Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale could ever have imagined.

Unions have no home or any party that will go to bat for them. That should have been evident after NAFTA. We have to secure our borders now, but the dirty secret and we all know it. Plenty of people in Washington are just fine and dandy with how it is now. Plenty of GOPers are talking out of both sides of their mouths right now. They are as happy as clams that Obama did what he did. They just can't show it.

This will help out D politicians and 1/3rd of the GOP.

It is interesting that Hispanic values and culture align more with Republican values than with the Dems.

Hispanics have strong family traditions. They believe in hard work. They generally prefer to work than to receive welfare. (Anyone realize that the majority of Hispanics are coming here to get jobs, not welfare?) They are religious. They believe in the sanctity of life and don't celebrate homosexuality.

Maybe this will pay an unintended benefit for the righteous Repubs.