[Bolduan:] It is not just the battle for the White House that has turned into the war of presidential campaign ads. The other day it was Romney-Hood and Obama-loney, and then an attack over welfare for Obama, and Romney for his time at Bain. And the rhetoric and finger pointing is everywhere on the airwaves and online. Watch this latest spot from a conservative group unaffiliated with the Romney group in Nevada that targets the Latino vote.
[Ad Announcer:] Don't be fooled by President Obama's words. He is not committed to the immigrants. Obama has deported more people than any other president in this country's history.
[Bolduan:] Some pretty tough stuff. So let's bring in Rafael Romo who has been digging into the ad. Rafael, this ad really goes after President Obama raising doubts about the stance on immigration. And give us a fact-check, true or false? Has President Obama deported more people than ever before?
[Rafael Romo, Cnn Senior Latin American Correspondent:] It is actually true, Kate. We took at look as some numbers by the Department of Homeland security, and, yes, it is in fact true. If you look at the numbers for the deportations for the last three years, you will see that the president's administration has deported shy of 400,000 people every year. And if you go back to 2007, the last year of the Bush administration, there was about 80,000 less deportations under the last year of Bush as compared to the first year of Obama. But it is true. However, the administration will tell you that what they have done is focused on criminals, and focused on felons and really expelling from the country, the undesirable characters Kate?
[Bolduan:] And so, when it comes down to it, we know that President Obama supports the dream, act which is a big issue and has been in the headlines, and also has made that announcement, and kind of changing the immigration policies slightly and allowing the preferred deportation for many young immigrants and how does the Romney campaign then respond to that and what are they doing or saying that they are doing to give the Hispanic voters confidence that a Romney administration would do better?
[Romo:] Well, that is one of the attacks that appeared in the ad. The reason that President Obama preferred deportations for young people here in the country undocumented is because he is desperate for votes, but when the president addressed the issue at the national association of Latino elected officials conference in June, he said that if Romney were the president, he wouldn't even do something like that. He, in fact, would block any attempt to help these young people. Let's hear what the president had to say back then.
[Barack Obama, President Of The United States:] In a speech he said that he makes a promise to you that he will keep it. Well, he has promised to veto the Dream Act. And we should take him at his word.
[Romo:] Now, the other aspect is that candidate Romney has also surrounded himself with people, like the architect of the immigration laws, the laws cracking down on immigration, Kris Kobach, from Kansas, and laws like in Arizona and Alabama, and a lot of people in the Hispanic community, many immigrants really resent that Kate?
[Bolduan:] Well, Rafael, something that we need to continue to track in the last three months of the race. Thank you, Rafael Romo. Hispanic voters, if you need to be reminded, will be an important factor throughout the presidential race, but also an important factor in swing states like Colorado, New Mexico, Florida and Nevada, where this particular ad is airing.