The Romney presidential campaign continues to duck answering basic questions regarding a potential President Romney’s immigration policy. Yesterday, Radio Bilingüe featured both Obama and Romney campaign spokespeople on host Samuel Orozco’s Spanish language show. During the interview, Romney spokesperson Sharon Castillo refused to say whether Romney would keep or rescind the deferred action...
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A spate of new polls offer further evidence that the old conventional wisdom on immigration politics is like, so yesterday. The old conventional wisdom went something like this: Democrats should avoid controversy by staying away from hot button issues like immigration. Leaning in only mobilized conservatives, pushed swing votes...
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One of the most closely watched non-presidential races this fall is the Elizabeth Warren – Scott Brown Senate matchup in Massachusetts, an intense and expensive fight to reclaim the seat formerly held by Teddy Kennedy for the Democrats. On one side is Democrat Elizabeth Warren, Harvard Law professor and...
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Editor’s Note: To remind you to vote FOR question 4 on the Maryland ballot in November, RSVP for this Facebook event page, and declare that you intend to vote FOR the Maryland DREAM Act. The DREAM Act is on the ballot in Maryland this fall. Last year, the Maryland...
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Sep 25, 2012
Remember that crazy anti-immigrant law out of Alabama – HB 56? The one that was so bad that we referred to it as the monster of all immigration laws, which also resulted in a mass-exodus of Alabama’s Hispanic population? Here’s a reminder from an article in Bloomberg today: The...
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Today, America’s Voice releases a spotlight on six key Senate races of importance to Latino and immigrant voters—and all those who care about common sense immigration reform. The analysis evaluates the power of the Latino voter community in each state and summarizes where each U.S. Senate candidate stands on the...
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Today is National Voter Registration Day. While a broad coalition is working to get people registered to vote, a rash of state laws have been passed to inhibit that process. La Opinión editorializes about those new restrictive state voting laws — and gets to the crux of their purpose. The...
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Earlier today we shared with you Stephen Colbert‘s segment on Republicans and the Latino vote. Turns out Ann Coulter was talking about the same topic this weekend during a roundtable discussion with host George Stephanopoulos, Univision anchor Jorge Ramos, former Clinton labor secretary Robert Reich and former Obama domestic policy adviser Melody...
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The Romney campaign revealed a new Latino strategy at last week’s Univisión forum and it “worked”…for 35 minutes. A BuzzFeed interview with Univisión’s Maria Elena Salinas reveals the true story behind the boisterous audience at last week’s Univisión forum with Mitt Romney, and the far more reserved audience that...
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Mitt Romney had quite a time chasing the Hispanic vote last week, speaking to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, going on Univision only to call DREAM Act youth “illegal aliens,” and suffering the release of a tape that–among other things–caught him speaking about how Hispanics voting Democrat would mean...
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