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McCain, Obama keep sparring in Spanish on immigration

While the presidential candidates don’t say a word about immigration in English, they continue to fight over it in Spanish.

This week, Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign launched a new Spanish-langauge ad which says that Sen. John McCain “surrendered to anti-immigrant forces” and “betrayed” the Latino community.

The ad refers to McCain saying during a presidential debate that he would not vote for his own immigration bill.

The legislation — popular in the Latino community — would have provided a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants and created a guest worker program.

During the presidential campaign, McCain backed away from the bill saying that border security must come first, before any legalization plan.

McCain’s camp has denounced Obama’s Spanish-langauge ads, saying that McCain championed the immigration bill at great political risk.

Here is the Obama ad:

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