Latino activists: Obama ‘completely failed us’

Published September 6, 2016 4:01am ET



When President Obama leaves office in January, among the angriest of core constituencies who wished the president accomplished more in his eight years will most likely be Latinos for his failure to deliver comprehensive immigration reform.

“He completely failed us in 2008, and he failed us in 2012,” the Center for Community Change Action’s Kica Matos said about Obama’s campaign promises to overhaul the immigration laws and offer a path to citizenship for the nation’s 11 million illegal immigrants.

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