MIAMI BEACH, Fla., July 22 (UPI) -- The nation's largest Hispanic advocacy group says it must reverse the "wave of hate" used to sink the immigration bill in the U.S. Senate last month.
The National Council of La Raza plans to start a campaign to register and mobilize voters and to address "hate" messages spewed by conservative talk shows, La Raza spokeswoman Cecilia Munoz told The Washington Times in a story published Sunday.
"That had an extraordinary impact in the Senate, and as a nation, I don't think we should be comfortable with the fact that the U.S. Senate responded to what was largely a wave of hate," Munoz said.
The council's convention was to continue Sunday with speeches from Democratic presidential hopefuls Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois.
