Nov 5, 2010
County Manager Barbara M. Donnellan wrote a memo to the county board which said, "ICE stated clearly -- and with finality -- that local activated communities do not have the option of withholding information from the program, although communities can opt not to learn the results of immigration queries."
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Nov 4, 2010
En un frío anochecer de Las Vegas el 22 de octubre se me grabó esta imagen: mientras buscaba mi auto en una calle aledaña al parque donde el presidente Barack Obama se desgañitaba pidiéndole a los nevadenses que salieran a votar, en los hogares podía observarse a la gente...
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On a press call yesterday, Latino Decisions and experts in Latino civic participation and immigration reform gathered to analyze Latino voter turnout in the 2010 elections, assess what motivated Latinos to vote, and answer what Tuesday night's results mean for the future of immigration reform and Latino political engagement....
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The irony of anti-immigration sentiment, which fears a loss of jobs for Americans if more immigrant workers enter the United States, is that it is fiscally more prudent to legalize, insure, employ, reunite and educate our immigrants than to keep families apart.
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The "ground game" of volunteers knocking on doors and dialing for votes is the last four yards, and Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet's unlikely survival Tuesday amid a national Republican onslaught was the work of get-out-the-vote efforts both meticulous and overwhelming.
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This election cycle, there is a lot of interest in Latino turnout and candidate choice, given the huge impact they had on races in Florida, California, Colorado, and New Mexico.
Today, Latino Decisions released a detailed analysis explaining why the national exit polls fail to capture a representative sample of...
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Latino Decisions and experts in Latino civic participation and immigration reform gathered yesterday on a press conference call to analyze Latino voter turnout in the 2010 elections, assess what motivated Latinos to vote, and answer what Tuesday night's results mean for the future of immigration reform and Latino political...
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Nov 3, 2010
The two Senate races where the actual winner was different from the leader in our polling-based projections were Colorado and Nevada..."There is one overarching reason why the polls were wrong in Nevada...The Latino vote."
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Latino voters overwhelmingly supported California's Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown and U.S. Senate incumbent Barbara Boxer over their respective Republican rivals Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina, according to polls conducted by Latino Decisions.
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Thanks to the Latino firewall in the West – motivated perhaps by some candidate’s views on immigration and some smart voter mobilization efforts – the Democrats were able to keep control of the Senate, not to mention the Governors’ races in California and Colorado.
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