Lo and behold, the political glitterati have realized that new Americans actually vote. And that there are a whole lot of them. To which Latinos, Asians and other new Americans respond, "Duh." Continue »
I'm about to board a 14 hour flight to Seoul, South Korea, where a delegation of national civil and labor rights leaders will tell Hyundai shareholders that their company's decision to brush aside requests to help repeal Alabama's anti-immigrant law is unacceptable. A few weeks ago, civil, human rights,... Continue »
I'm about to board a 14 hour flight to Seoul, South Korea, where a delegation of national civil and labor rights leaders will tell Hyundai shareholders that their company's decision to brush aside requests to help repeal Alabama's anti-immigrant law is unacceptable. A few weeks ago, civil, human rights,... Continue »
Several weeks ago we posted an update to our "Boycott Hate" campaign: how we'd asked car companies like Honda and Hyundai to join us in the fight to repeal Alabama's anti-immigrant law HB 56, and how they basically told us it wasn't their problem. As a CNN report... Continue »
With demographic realities now undeniable, more and more political analysts agree that Republicans are committing political suicide by embracing hard-line, anti-immigrant policies. A piece by Paul Begala in The Daily Beast, lifts up some important quotes from prominent GOP strategists who agree that Republican candidates change on immigration... Continue »
With demographic realities now undeniable, more and more political analysts agree that Republicans are committing political suicide by embracing hard-line, anti-immigrant policies. A piece by Paul Begala in The Daily Beast, lifts up some important quotes from prominent GOP strategists who agree that Republican candidates change on immigration... Continue »
The Alabama Republican primary is tonight, and the Center for American Progress has released its latest fact sheet entitled "The Top 10 Things You Should Know About Alabama's Demographic Changes and Immigration Politics". Continue »
The Alabama Republican primary is tonight, and the Center for American Progress has released its latest fact sheet entitled "The Top 10 Things You Should Know About Alabama's Demographic Changes and Immigration Politics". Continue »
This group's consensus is that, mainly because of Alabama's harsh immigration law and Republican presidential candidates' embrace of it and similar laws, the Republicans are in real trouble come election time. Republicans can't win without a good chunk of the Latino/Hispanic vote, and that's just the way it is. Continue »
Maria Teresa Kumar is the founding executive director of Voto Latino, a non-partisan group created in 2004 with the mission to find, register, and turn out young Latino voters in the United States. Continue »