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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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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Today, our Executive Director, Frank Sharry, joins Ron Brownstein from National Journal, Jake Tapper from ABC News, and Maria Elana Salinas from Univision on a panel at the Democratic National Convention entitled “The Democratic Party in Tomorrow’s America: The Hispanic Surge and the New Landscape of American Politics.” The...
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Ahead of this week’s Democratic National Convention, a series of contrasts are on display regarding immigration policy and politics: Democratic and Republican Party Platforms on Immigration: On immigration, the RNC’s official platform unveiled last week is a Kris Kobach-driven grab-bag of hardline anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies. The RNC platform is filled with...
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Maribel Hastings is a Senior Advisor at America’s Voice: CHARLOTTE, North Carolina – Barack Obama has made history in stadiums. In 2008, he accepted his party’s presidential nomination at Invesco Stadium in Denver, CO, with the promise of change. This week, he will accept the nomination for a second...
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***MEDIA AVAILABILITY*** ***America’s Voice Available for Interviews at the Democratic National Convention*** Washington, DC – Ahead of this week’s Democratic National Convention, a series of contrasts are on display regarding immigration policy and politics: Democratic and Republican Party Platforms on Immigration: On immigration, the RNC’s official platform unveiled last week is...
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Last week, Republicans met in Tampa to nominate Mitt Romney as their presidential candidate. For the RNC, we put together a guide of what to expect from the convention, its nominee, and its delegates on immigration. Turns out, not so much. When it came to immigration, as Univision’s Jordan Fabian reported: no speaker...
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On Tuesday night, San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro will be the first Latino to give the keynote address at a Democratic National Convention. He has been major Latino surrogate for Obama. And, Castro is from the same part of Texas as House Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith. There couldn’t be a more...
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