Hispanic Consciousness Lends Weight To Jeb Bush As GOP Eyes 2016 Presidential Race

The GOP's 'Hispanic Consciousness'
Former Florida governor Jeb Bush speaks with an admirer as he signs the book 'Immigation Wars' he co-authored with Clint Bolick at a book signing during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland, on March 15, 2013. AFP PHOTO/Nicholas KAMM (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)
Former Florida governor Jeb Bush speaks with an admirer as he signs the book 'Immigation Wars' he co-authored with Clint Bolick at a book signing during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland, on March 15, 2013. AFP PHOTO/Nicholas KAMM (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)

MIAMI She was almost like a member of the family. An employee, but almost one of them.

For three years, Maria Magdalena Romero had tended to the suburban Miami home of Jeb and Columba Bush, had helped to raise their three children, had twined into the fabric of their lives.

Then, with lurching swiftness, she was yanked away. On a mild winter morning in 1991, two immigration agents appeared at the door of the family home looking for the woman Bush’s youngest son and namesake, then just 10 years old, remembers as “a super nice lady.” They carried deportation orders.

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