The Spanish-language press leads today’s news with coverage of the immigration speech President Barack Obama delivered yesterday from American University in Washington. Meanwhile, a law requiring businesses to check employees’ immigration status went into effect in South Carolina yesterday, and police officers in Arizona are getting ready to enforce SB 1070.
Obama speech. Throughout reaction pieces to the speech, activists and analysts praise Obama’s rhetoric but emphasize that action is needed to move the issue forward. ImpreMedia runs the article “Obama: good words that need action.” La Opinión’s (Los Angeles) editorial about the speech is headlined “Words aren’t enough.” The magazine Contacto publishes the commentary “Immigration reform: hopes and failures.” AOL Latino reprints a column by Maribel Hastings of America’s Voice entitled “Bravery and political will: That’s the question.”
The Spanish-language press leads today’s news with coverage of the immigration speech President Barack Obama delivered yesterday from American University in Washington. ImpreMedia runs the article “Obama: good words that need action.” La Opinión’s (Los Angeles) editorial about the speech is headlined “Words aren’t enough.” The magazine Contacto publishes the commentary “Immigration reform: hopes and failures.” AOL Latino reprints a column by Maribel Hastings of America’s Voice entitled “Bravery and political will: That’s the question.” Other sample headlines:
Notimex: “Obama’s immigration speech praised, lack of timeline criticized”
La Opinión: “Obama: ‘I’m ready to push immigration reform’”
EFE: “Obama swears he’ll move forward with immigration reform”
EFE: “Obama gave good speech but needs to lead on reform, activists say”
La Jornada: “Obama renews call for Congress to advance immigration reform”
Univision.com: “Obama defends immigration reform, assures there won’t be massive deportations”
AFP: “Obama asks for the ‘political will’ to pass comprehensive immigration reform”
Télam: “Obama asks Republicans to back immigration reform”
Yahoo News: “Obama: in favor of legalizing immigrants”
Reuters: “Obama pushes immigration reform, seeks broad support”
AP: “Obama accuses political bloviation of stalling immigration reform”
EFE and the AP report on a training video being used to train Arizona police in how to implement SB 1070 to check for immigration status and arrest undocumented immigrants.
An EFE dispatch points out that a South Carolina law penalizing businesses for hiring undocumented workers and requiring that all employers verify their employees’ immigration status went into effect on July 1st.
