Today, the Hispanic press highlights the America's Voice report "The Power of the Latino Vote" which received a front-page story in La Opinión (Los Angeles). The report analyzes 40 electoral races in 12 states
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Today, the Hispanic press highlights a study from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) indicating that immigration does not depress the wages of American workers. According to the report, titled "Immigration and Wages," Department of Labor statistics demonstrate that the arrival of 9.5 million immigrant workers between 1994 and 2007...
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Representative Mike Honda and Sonia Manzano, who most people know as Maria on Sesame Street, wrote an article, which was published today in the Capitol Hill newspaper, Roll Call, voicing their support for comprehensive immigration reform. They write:
The tide seems to be turning in favor of comprehensive immigration reform,...
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America's Voice is launching an online ad campaign to encourage Americans to contact Congressman Patrick Murphy (D-PA) and demand that he remove his name from a controversial immigration resolution, H.Res. 1026-- the so-called "BRIDGE Resolution." Murphy has come under fire from religious, progressive, and community leaders for joining with...
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The president's State of the Union address last week continues to be a hot topic in the Spanish-language press. President Obama's aunt, Zeituni Onyango, faces a deportation hearing after overstaying her tourist visa and having her application for political asylum rejected, as reported by the AP, the EFE, La...
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The President announced his budget Monday, sending many members of Congress into an angry frenzy over $3.83 trillion that Obama had allotted for an array of programs – mostly in an effort to fight against the growing unemployment and to strengthen our weak economy. But some members of Congress...
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Two reports with bearing on the immigration debate were released in Washington yesterday: an Urban Institute study finding that three-fourths of the 5.5 million children of undocumented parents were born in the United States and live under the fear that their parents will be arrested, separated from them or...
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The New York Times today uncovers how U.S. immigration authorities under President Bush colluded with a Mississippi marine oil-rig company to punish workers exercising their labor rights. The article details shocking correspondence between the employer, Signal International, and the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which advised the...
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Andrea Nill reports at the Wonk Room on White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs' statements yesterday evening, responding to growing criticism that President Obama did not say enough about immigration during his State of the Union address last week. Here is the video of Gibbs' comments: "I think the...
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Yesterday, Rep. Luis Gutierrez sent a political warning to his fellow Democrats: If immigration reform doesn't pass, as promised, Latinos won't vote.
Without progress, the congressman warned that many Latinos would stay home from the polls.
According to exit polls, Obama received 70%...
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