Sep 7, 2012
This week’s Democratic National Convention represented a clean break from the old and discredited conventional wisdom that for Democrats, immigration is an issue best avoided when talking to general election audiences. Instead, and in contrast to last week’s Republican National Convention, Democrats embraced the new paradigm of immigration politics,...
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We wrote about the Republican National Convention last week and how the GOP predictably failed to say anything substantial on immigration policy. As Univision’s Jordan Fabian reported: no speaker took the opportunity to address the topic, and that gaping absence stood out like a sore thumb. (emphasis in original) Luckily,...
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CHARLOTTE, North Carolina – California Congressman Xavier Becerra, an Obama campaign surrogate, is one hundred percent certain that the president will be re-elected. And when that happens, Becerra said yesterday at a forum on the Latino vote and immigration, he will deliver the comprehensive immigration reform bill he promised...
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While Benita was making her historic speech at the Democratic National Convention last night, we were watching Twitter blow up talking about her. Here’s a compilation of some of those tweets, many notably talking about how Benita was received last night compared to how she would be received at, say,...
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History was made last night at the Democratic National Convention when Benita Veliz–the first DREAMer ever to speak at a convention–took the podium to tell her story. You can watch the video of her remarks here: And the transcript: My name is Benita Veliz, and I’m from San Antonio,...
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This week, we all witnessed San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro give the keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention. He spoke with eloquence, inspiration and admiration about his mother, his heritage and his story. He reminded us all that in this country, it’s not what you look like or...
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