27 de agosto de 2012
Maribel Hastings is a senior adviser to America’s Voice: TAMPA, Florida – Hurricane Isaac shouldn’t be the only thing on Republicans’ minds as they congregate in Tampa this week for the Republican National Convention, which is expected to officially crown Mitt Romney as the party’s candidate for President of...
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On Friday, the California State Assembly voted to pass the Trust Act in a 48-26 vote. Briefly, the Trust Act is the opposite of anti-immigrant legislation that is currently plaguing the country, and is a clear alternative to the Secure Communities enforcement program (which costs taxpayers in the state...
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24 de agosto de 2012
In advance of the Republican National Convention next week, the political chatter in recent days has refocused on the importance of the Latino vote in the 2012 election. Mitt Romney apparently now has a goal of winning at least 38% of the Latino vote nationwide–despite all the polls that...
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24 de agosto de 2012
With the news that Maricopa County’s Sheriff Joe Arpaio will be attending next week’s Republican National Convention, we have compiled a list of convention guests and delegates whose positions on immigration could be described as bad, worse, and worser. As talk show host Carlos Galindo reacted to the Sheriff Arpaio news on Daily...
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23 de agosto de 2012
Steve King Thinks Multicultural Groups Are "People that Feel Sorry for Themselves"
Sometimes I really wonder if Rep. Steve King (R-IA) is for real. Think Progress today quoted King’s comments from a recent Iowa town hall: King said: I went to the Iowa State website and I typed in “multicultural” and it came back to me, at the time, 59...
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23 de agosto de 2012
Does Mitt Romney Support or Disavow His Immigration Advisor Kris Kobach?
Kris Kobach, immigration advisor to the Romney campaign, architect of the infamous Arizona and Alabama immigration laws, and driving force behind the Republican Party’s hard line platform on immigration, today joined with Roy Beck of NumbersUSA, the head of a leading anti-immigrant organization, and Chris Crane, the head of...
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23 de agosto de 2012
Editor’s Note: This article is an English translation from the original Spanish article, published on Univision.com, by Jorge Ramos. You can read it, en español, here. Since Ronald Reagan, any Republican candidate that gets less than a third of the Latino vote will lose the election. Dear Republicans: You...
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22 de agosto de 2012
The Disconnect Between Republican Immigration Policy and Politics
As we predicted yesterday, Kris Kobach – the Kansas Secretary of State and legal architect of the Arizona and Alabama anti-immigrant laws – continues to drive the immigration policies of Mitt Romney’s Republican Party. Yesterday, he persuaded the RNC platform committee to adopt the key elements of his radical immigration...
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On Tuesday morning, we reported that Kris Kobach, Romney advisor and one of the most notoriously anti-immigrant officials in the nation, was playing a key role in the creation of the GOP platform. Tuesday afternoon, Kobach succeeded in pushing harsh anti-immigrant language into the Republican platform. Via Politico: Kansas Secretary...
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21 de agosto de 2012
“Where are you from?” This is a question that has become increasingly difficult to answer as I get older. Growing up in Miami, I was “la peruana” or “la peruanita” — labels that delineated and affirmed my Peruvian identity. Although I did not know too many Peruvians (I was...
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