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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Oct 24, 2008
GoVote.org is a handy new site that provides voters all the information they need on where to vote early, polling places, ID requirements, and more- in English and Spanish. All first-time voters have to do is put in their zip code, and voila- problem solved. Now there's no...
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Oct 23, 2008
The highest court in the land has decided to hear the case of Ignacio Carlos Flores-Figueroa, a Mexican citizen who found himself behind bars after he was convicted of “aggravated identity theft.” According to Flores-Figueroa’s lawyers, he made up a Social Security number so he could get a job...
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According to a new Immigration Policy Center report, New Americans' share of registered voters exceeded the 2004 victory margins in 16 states, including the battlegrounds of Florida, New Mexico, and Pennsylvania. Indeed, New American Voters- immigrant citizens and the citizen children of immigrants- are the fastest-growing new voting bloc...
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Get ready, poll workers. The We Are America Alliance and its member groups have just announced their success in registering 500,000 new voters. For many of these half-million voters, immigration reform is a top priority, as it was in 2006 and 2007, when immigrants and advocates flooded the streets...
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