An outside group backing President Obama’s reelection bid is teaming up with a service-workers union to attack Mitt Romney on immigration.
The Spanish-language ad from Priorities USA and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) hits the presumptive GOP nominee for supporting Arizona’s controversial immigration law and criticizes him for refusing to release more of his tax returns.
"Our vote is based on trust, but Mitt Romney is not telling us everything. He made millions while firing workers and outsourcing jobs overseas. He keeps accounts in the Cayman Islands to avoid paying taxes here in the U.S.," the ad's narrator says in Spanish. "Now Romney refuses to share all of his tax returns. What is he hiding? Romney — he wants us to show him our papers but he doesn't show us his. How can we trust Mitt Romney?"
The ad is running in Florida and Nevada and is part of an already announced $4 million ad campaign. It was also slotted to run in Colorado, but the group decided to hold off on airing it there due to the shootings in Aurora.
Recent polling shows President Obama with a huge lead over Romney with Hispanics, though Florida's Latino population is predominantly Cuban and leans Republican. Obama will need to do well with them to win that state.
This post was updated at 11:14 a.m.
