Back in 2008, many of us did not understand why the Spanish-speaking media gave candidate Obama such a free pass on immigration.  After all, wasn't then-Senator Obama one of the U.S. senators who forced the "poison pill amendments" on the McCain-Kennedy bill and showed very little interest in the subject as Ruben Navarrette has told us often? Obama's record in the Illinois State Senate was woefully thin when it came to advancing issues of concern to Latinos including immigration. United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta said so when, in 2008, she famously called out Obama as a “Johnny come lately” to Latino concerns. On immigration, as a freshman senator in 2006, Obama helped defeat an immigration compromise bill by authoring “poison pill” amendments intended to kill the bill by peeling off Republican support. While running for president, he promised Latinos that he would make immigration reform a top priority...(Read Full Post)