Nov 15, 2011
President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is in full swing. This week, he strongly condemned Alabama 's law in front of Spanish-language media, saying that it is "not just anti-immigrant, but I believe it doesn't match our essential values as a country."
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I have a confession to make. In my early twenties, I was marginally interested in politics and sometimes found myself in the voting booth with scant grasp of the candidates or issues. I would scan the ballot for a candidate with a Hispanic surname and blindly vote for them....
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After a three week hiatus from the debate circuit, eight Republican hopefuls took the stage last week. Held in economically devastated Michigan, the debate gave candidates a chance to come out swinging against the federal policies that led to the state's unemployment rate which peaked at 14 percent after...
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President Barack Obama still holds significant leads among likely Latino voters over Republican candidates for the 2012 election, partially because most Latinos don't know or don't like the GOP field, according to a Univision-Latino Decisions poll released Tuesday.
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The news that Mitt Romney is deploying automated attack calls in Iowa against Rick Perry on immigration should come as little surprise, given Romney's hard-line stance on immigration thus far in the 2012 cycle. What is notable, however, is that the anti-Perry calls feature an Arizona sheriff named...
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Marco Rubio is not running for president -- not this voting cycle, anyway. But those on the other side of the aisle are well aware of his potential, and are already turning up their scrutiny a notch. The GOP candidate perhaps likeliest to become the nominee, Mitt Romney, has...
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Marco Rubio is not running for president -- not this voting cycle, anyway. But those on the other side of the aisle are well aware of his potential, and are already turning up their scrutiny a notch. The GOP candidate perhaps likeliest to become the nominee, Mitt Romney, has...
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Michelle Bachmann said Saturday she would not help children of immigrants who come to the U.S. illegally. At a campaign stop in Iowa, a Latino college student asked the presidential hopeful what she would do to the children of undocumented immigrants.
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Another prominent Republican is speaking out against the vicious anti-immigrant rhetoric occurring in the GOP presidential contest. In his column at the Washington Post, Michael Gerson, who served as chief speechwriter for President George W. Bush, challenges the tactics of Mitt Romney and Rick Perry.
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A leading immigrant advocacy group warned Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney on Thursday that his endorsement by Rep. Lamar Smith, author of several immigration bills, could later haunt his White House aspirations in a general election.
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