Latinos represent 21.1% of California's registered voters and Latino turnout has increased greatly over the past decade. When Proposition 187 was enacted in 1994, it created a backlash among Latino voters who turned against the state Republican Party that championed the measure. Since then, Republican candidates have...
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In what is expected to be a very close race, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is running for reelection in 2010 against Sharon Angle, a Republican candidate supported by the Minuteman PAC. Nevada was one of the key Democratic pickups in the 2008 Presidential contest, where the Latino vote...
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This year, America's Voice is teaming up with Democracy for America (DFA), Netroots Nation 2010, and National Council of La Raza (NCLR) to send 20 grassroots immigration bloggers and advocates to Netroots Nation 2010. The process this year is a little different from last year -- scholars will be...
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As mid-term season heats up, how big an issue is immigration for Latino voters? Some Republicans try to deny immigration is much of a factor, and some Democrats suspect that activists exaggerate the effect. A look at recent polling suggests that the skeptics are wrong.
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Jun 4, 2010
Research Reveals that Voters Support Both the Arizona Immigration Law and Comprehensive Immigration Reform.
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The news of President Obama's upcoming meeting on Thursday with Arizona Governor Jan Brewer (R-AZ) offers an opportunity for President Obama to take back control of the immigration debate. Following are three important points for President Obama to remember as he prepares for the meeting.
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In a triumph of political posturing over problem-solving, Republican politicians continue to rally behind the Arizona anti-immigrant law and put forth more-of the-same "border security first" amendments in Washington. Meanwhile, leading police chiefs from major cities in Arizona and across the United States gathered in Washington yesterday to...
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Senators Reid, Schumer, Durbin, and Menendez deserve major kudos for standing up to the partisan posturing and political gamesmanship of Senators Cornyn, McCain and Kyl – and defeating them.
The Republicans proposed "border security first" amendments aimed at trying to make themselves look "tough" and Democrats look "soft." But...
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Republican Senators are busy offering a number of border-related amendments today to the emergency supplemental appropriations bill for new jobs, disaster relief and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, continuing their recent steadfast advocacy of the immigration status quo. Instead of proposing steps toward a lasting fix of...
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President Obama went into the Lion's Den today and challenged Republicans to work with him on comprehensive immigration reform. So far, so good. But he left the Lion's Den having given into the key GOP demand of "border security first" without getting anything in return. Say...
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