The purpose of our series "March to the Polls 2010" is to capture the attitude of Hispanic voters in key states. Two years ago, they voted at record levels, but in the last two years they have been battered along with the rest of the country by an economy...
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Various outlets report on a $300,000 radio ad campaign launched yesterday to mobilize the Latino vote heading toward the November 2nd elections. In California, Meg Whitman takes a stand against immigration reform in her first debate in the governor's race, and in New Mexico President Obama makes the case...
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Sep 27, 2010
During the only moment at which he "broke character" from his ultraconservative-commentator persona during a Congressional hearing on undocumented farm workers, comedian Stephen Colbert couldn't have been more serious:
I like talking about people who don't have any power.
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In the second part of his interview with Telemundo, President Barack Obama declared that since he's not the king or emperor of the United States, he can't unilaterally change immigration law. After Tuesday's vote blocked addition of the DREAM Act to a Senate bill, Republicans who voted against it...
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The Spanish-language press devotes much of its coverage today to the setback suffered yesterday for the DREAM Act after the Senate was unable to pass a motion to debate the Defense appropriations bill to which Democrats planned to add the DREAM Act as an amendment.
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The Spanish-language press devotes much of its coverage today to the likely vote on the DREAM Act in the Senate this week.
DREAM vote this week. La Opinión publishes the editorial "A reasonable strategy" ("Una estrategia razonable"), arguing that the Senate should put aside electoral politics to pass the DREAM...
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Outlets throughout the Spanish-language press report this morning on the nationwide efforts to mobilize for the DREAM Act and President Barack Obama's commitment to support efforts to pass the bill.
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Today’s top story in the Spanish-language press is Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-NV) announcement yesterday that he plans to introduce the DREAM Act, which would legalize undocumented youth, as an amendment to the defense appropriations bill to be debated in the Senate next week. Senate to vote on...
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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute conference that Congress needs to get serious about reforming the immigration system, and Latinos need to make their voices heard by voting. She also expressed the President's support for the DREAM Act, which Jorge Ramos endorses elsewhere in...
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Over the weekend, Spanish-language newspaper La Opinión (Los Angeles) printed the second segment of its exclusive interview with President Barack Obama, in which the president said he'd defer to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus on whether to go forward with the DREAM Act and told supporters of comprehensive immigration reform...
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