Arturo Vargas: The TT Interview

In 2008, then-presidential candidate Barack Obama spoke at the annual conference of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, or NALEO. He promised that if elected, he’d return the following year with comprehensive immigration reform as one of his early accomplishments.

Four years later, NALEO members are still waiting. Arturo Vargas, the executive director of NALEO’s Educational Fund, sat down this week for an interview with the Tribune and said that the president has some explaining to do. He also said it the president and his eventual Republican opponent would do well to attend this year ...

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