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On the sensitive issue of illegal immigration, Democrats are acting more like demagogues. At various times in this debate, they've been cynical, hypocritical and dishonest. First, 191 House Democrats voted against an amendment to the immigration bill that would have reduced the infraction of being in the country illegally from a felony to a misdemeanor. Next, Democrats held up the Senate's version of immigration reform last spring and then tried to pin the blame on the GOP. Now, a 35-second Internet video ad produced by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and placed on the organization's Web site has spurred an...

Democrats dropped an ad that Latinos had criticized as unfairly depicting undocumented immigrants as terrorists. The ad had disappeared from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee's Web site Thursday. A link that had led to the advertisement now leads to a different ad. No announcement was made about what happened to the ad. A DSCC spokesperson did not return phone calls or an e-mail seeking comment. Democratic and Republican Latinos had complained Wednesday about the ad. The 35-second ad questioned GOP homeland security and anti-terrorism policies. It featured images of Osama bin Laden and North Korea's Kim Jong Il and two...

NEW YORK -- Senator Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., took time out from an event commemorating 9/11 to take a swipe at a campaign commercial by John Spencer, her likely Republican opponent in November. In the commercial, slated to run in New York City and on suburban cable stations, Spencer, the former mayor of Yonkers, accuses Clinton of being soft on national security issues and as such, aiding al-Qaida strongman Osama bin Laden. It was Clinton who helped lead the Democratic attempt to filibuster the renewal of the Patriot Act, though she eventually voted for it. The controversial Spencer commercial proceeds to...

Democrats pull ad after Hispanics complain WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has removed an ad from its Web site after Hispanic groups complained it equated illegal immigrants with terrorists. The pulled ad, which criticized the Bush administration's national security policies, juxtaposed images of illegal immigrants scaling a fence on the Mexican border with images of Osama bin Laden and North Korean President Kim Jong-il, The Washington Times reported Thursday. "Equating these undocumented migrants to the very real threats of terrorism is inexcusable and only serves to fan the flames of anti-immigrant sentiment in our country,"...

Democrats dropped an ad that Hispanics had criticized as unfairly depicting illegal immigrants as terrorists. The ad had disappeared from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee's Web site Thursday. A link that had led to the advertisement now leads to a different ad. No announcement was made about what happened to the ad. A DSCC spokesman did not return phone calls and an e-mail message seeking comment. Democratic and Republican Hispanics had complained Wednesday about the ad. The 35-second ad questioned GOP homeland security and anti-terrorism policies. It featured images of Osama bin Laden and North Korea's Kim Jong Il and...

(CNSNews.com) - One of the New York Republicans hoping to challenge Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton in the Nov. 7 general election is under fire for an online campaign ad that displays photos of Clinton and al Qaeda terror leader Osama bin Laden side-by-side and criticizes Clinton for allegedly "playing politics" with national security. The other GOP candidate in the race describes the ad as "going in the gutter." The campaign commercial begins with the voice of a female narrator. "Islamic fascists still hate us. They still want to attack us," she states as a picture of Osama bin Laden...

Self-Appointed Latino Spokespeople Would Sacrifice National Security to Promote Illegal Immigration, Charges American Hispanic Group You Don’t Speak for Me! rejects assertion that American Hispanics take offense at democratic senatorial adWashington, DC--(HISPANIC PR WIRE)--August 16, 2006--As the danger to Americans of all backgrounds, posed by radical Islamic terrorist groups intensifies, individuals and groups purporting to speak on behalf of American Hispanics demonstrated once again that they are prepared to place their open borders agenda above the interests of homeland security, charged You Don’t Speak for Me! (YDSFM), a national coalition of American Hispanics. YDSFM responded to calls from a Houston...

A Republican hoping to challenge Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton this fall is running a television ad that pairs Clinton's face with Osama bin Laden's and accuses her of opposing national security programs that may have helped thwart a terror plot on U.S.-bound flights from London.... The ad also includes a spelling error: The words "Islamic fascists still hate us" appear on the screen early in the ad, but "fascist" is spelled "facist."...

Hispanics Blast Democrats' Ad A Democratic political ad is under fire from Hispanics who say it unfairly compares Latino immigrants to terrorists. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee sponsored a 35-second ad on its Web site that shows footage of two people scaling a border fence mixed with images of Osama Bin Laden and North Korea President Kim Jong Il. Pedro Celis, chairman of the Republican National Hispanic Assembly, said in a statement Tuesday that the DSCC should remove the ad because it vilifies illegal Hispanic immigrants and is "appalling." Houston City Councilwoman Carol Alvarado, a Democrat, sent a letter to...