Today, America’s Voice is releasing the second and third installments of our “State Spotlight: Immigration, Latino Voters, and the 2012 Elections” series with analyses of Latino electoral politics in Florida and Arizona. Today’s fact sheets follow an earlier installment about Nevada, and in the coming weeks America’s Voice will...
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Writing at The Hill’s Congress Blog, Caesar Vargas — a DREAMer and activist who was in Tampa and Charlotte — has a post-convention analysis on the politics of immigration. During the Democratic National Convention, Benita Veliz made history during her prime time appearance by being the first undocumented immigrant,...
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While we don’t always agree with Ruben Navarrette’s writing, we usually think he makes provocative points in a way that calls out both parties fairly. However, there are a few claims in his most recent column that are so wildly out of context (and so egregiously misrepresent history) that we...
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A new Kansas City Star column by Mary Sanchez highlights the striking differences between the Democratic and Republican Conventions when it comes to demographic diversity. “A Herman Cain here and a Marco Rubio there won’t do the trick. In Charlotte, network cameras couldn’t focus on one face without also...
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by Latino Decisions on 09/10/2012 Despite two weeks of widespread political coverage in which both parties made an effort to reach out to Latino voters, enthusiasm about November is still very much in question. Wave 3 of the impreMedia/Latino Decisions tracking poll did not find any noticeable increase in levels of enthusiasm...
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UPDATE: Mitt Romney appeared with Steve King today and only had praise for the Representative who compares immigrants to dogs. Romney said in Orange City, Iowa today: “I’m looking here at Steve King, he needs to be your Congressman again. I want him as my partner in Washington.” UPDATE: Rep. King...
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Wednesday night at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, Cristina Saralegui gave a speech supporting President Barack Obama’s re-election. As many have said, Cristina is considered the Oprah for Spanish television. She is an incredible businesswoman and talk show host who the Latino and Hispanic community trust and respect...
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This week’s Democratic National Convention represented a clean break from the old and discredited conventional wisdom that for Democrats, immigration is an issue best avoided when talking to general election audiences. Instead, and in contrast to last week’s Republican National Convention, Democrats embraced the new paradigm of immigration politics,...
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On August 15, DREAMers around the country began filing applications with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to request temporary relief from deportation. The deferred action process, as it is known, would also give DREAMers the ability to work and (in some cases) drive for at least two years....
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We wrote about the Republican National Convention last week and how the GOP predictably failed to say anything substantial on immigration policy. As Univision’s Jordan Fabian reported: no speaker took the opportunity to address the topic, and that gaping absence stood out like a sore thumb. (emphasis in original) Luckily,...
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