Democrats who fought for a comprehensive bill this Congress were rewarded by Latino voters. On the other hand, they say Republicans who called for tougher border enforcement policies and increased deportation were punished. "In wave elections, both chambers usually flip. It's pretty remarkable that the Senate stayed in Democratic...
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Republicans snapped up an early win Tuesday night courtesy of Florida senatorial candidate, Marco Rubio. But there's no pretending that Rubio's victory is a sign that Republicans are making inroads with Latinos...Florida's Latino electorate is unique -- made up largely of Cuban Americans and Puerto Ricans, the two Hispanic...
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Democrats picked up a seat in the Legislature, won the governorship – and maybe all state offices – and re-elected a damaged U.S. senator... It's now a California where Latino voters have come into their own as a pivotal voting bloc, with the power to punish candidates seen as...
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Nov 5, 2010
Anti-immigration groups raised fears that illegal immigrants might steal the U.S. elections Tuesday by voting in droves. Those fears never materialized, and most voting experts say they weren't founded on any evidence of widespread voter fraud, especially by immigrants.
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Host Michel Martin talks with Matthew Barreto, an assistant professor of political science at the University of Washington and a pollster at the polling firm Latino Decisions, about the impact of the Latino vote in the 2010 midterm elections.
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There was plenty of grim news for Latinos in Tuesday's election results: three Latino congressmen were voted out, the odds of an immigration overhaul appeared to diminish and hardliners were re-elected...But 2010 also signifies a milestone of sorts for Latinos, the country's largest minority: their overwhelming support for Democrats...
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Eighty-one percent of Latino voters in Colorado voted for Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet. Split the Latino vote down the middle between Bennet and Republican Ken Buck and Buck wins easily...As it was, Buck barely out-polled gubernatorial candidate and anti-immigration hardliner Tom Tancredo among Hispanics.
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County Manager Barbara M. Donnellan wrote a memo to the county board which said, "ICE stated clearly -- and with finality -- that local activated communities do not have the option of withholding information from the program, although communities can opt not to learn the results of immigration queries."
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On a press call yesterday, Latino Decisions and experts in Latino civic participation and immigration reform gathered to analyze Latino voter turnout in the 2010 elections, assess what motivated Latinos to vote, and answer what Tuesday night's results mean for the future of immigration reform and Latino political engagement....
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The irony of anti-immigration sentiment, which fears a loss of jobs for Americans if more immigrant workers enter the United States, is that it is fiscally more prudent to legalize, insure, employ, reunite and educate our immigrants than to keep families apart.
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