First things first, kudos to the President-elect on his likely pick for Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). If Napolitano's likely appointment to Secretary of Homeland Security is anything, it is a welcome departure from business as usual at DHS. It is a chance for a courageous...
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On yesterday's NPR Morning Edition, reporter Jennifer Ludden took a few moments to turn conventional wisdom on immigration on its head. She cut to America's Voice Executive Director Frank Sharry: "What the election showed is that the conventional wisdom on why immigration reform is too hot to handle is...
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This morning, at an event hosted by National Council of La Raza, leading analysts and advocates gathered to discuss how the issue of immigration played a key role in the 2008 elections and to assess the future of immigration policy. The presentations of new polling by pollsters ...
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Nov 12, 2008
Well, if there's one thing we can all agree on right now, it's that this election has ripped conventional wisdom to shreds. A new report by America's Voice, The GOP: Fenced in by Immigration, details how nineteen pro-reform candidates beat hard-liners in twenty-one battleground house and senate races...
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Republican analysts are now chiming in: the GOP encouraged the kind of "red-meat" xenophobia within its ranks that blocked immigration reform. And it backfired, bigtime. "Here's the truly ominous trend for the Republicans: Hispanic voters nationwide chose Obama over McCain by 67 percent to 31 percent. This is a...
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Today we grieve with the family of Marcello Lucero, an Ecuadorian immigrant who was stabbed to death in Suffolk, NY, by seven teens. These teens, between the ages of 16 and 17, admitted they, “wanted to beat up someone who looked Hispanic,” according to newsday.com. It is time for...
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For three years now NDN has argued that the way the Republicans had handled the immigration issue - by demonizing Hispanics - was one of the biggest political mistakes made by a political party in the last 50 years of American politics. As Peter Wallsten writes in the...
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Nov 5, 2008
We've been talking about the 'sleeping giant' for some time... Straight from the experts at NDN, here's a "Preliminary Analysis of the Latino Vote": Hispanics Participation Rates Continue to Increase, Hispanics Have Decisively Swung to the Democrat, and Hispanics Provided The Margin of Victory in These Four States.
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Nov 4, 2008
With its unprecedented size and level of political engagement this cycle, the Immigrant Vote has grown into one of the most important new blocs to monitor coming out of this historic election. Since numbers are king today, here are a few whoppers to keep in mind as the...
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Oct 27, 2008
The massive spike in Latino and immigrant citizen turnout we're set to see this year is also a direct result of large-scale voter mobilization efforts by campaigns and organizations like the We Are America Alliance. Candidates beware: come January, this new voting bloc will be demanding that the next...
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