In Iowa, Hispanics ‘Used Like a Punching Bag’
... On Monday, Diaz-Cárdenas attended an event at Hotel Pattee, the political center of the city, to see GOP candidate Rick Santorum, the former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, who has garnered more media interest after surging in the polls.
“We have to control the border. We have to enforce the law,” Santorum said before a group of some 70 people, half of whom were reporters.
Diaz-Cárdenas, who is a Democrat, said Santorum’s message resonates better with him than candidates like Michelle Bachmann, who he says have repeated “incorrect statistics” about immigrants and attacked undocumented youth wanting to go to college.
“(Santorum) didn’t make us feel like we weren’t human beings,” he said ...
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