The Republican presidential candidates have recently gone silent on the lightning-rod issue of immigration, but that could change soon with the Arizona primary fast approaching. In the past few months, the GOP presidential hopefuls seemed to change their positions on immigration depending on the state in which they...
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Condescension is never appetizing. Not even when it's wrapped around a chimichanga. A political food fight broke out this week when Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank essentially wrote in a column that the Republican Party had nothing left to offer Latino voters other than the chimichanga.
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Some see it as a great irony and others as complete lack of cultural sensibility and knowledge of Latinos, but the most recent political debate between Democrats and Republicans, have Latinos as main actor and a "chimichanga" (sort of a tex mex fried burrito) as the evidence.
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Conservative Republicans want Marco Rubio to be the vice-presidential candidate in November's presidential election. At least, that's what the straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) showed last weekend.
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Dana Milbank's Washington Post column caused quite a stir on Twitter yesterday. Milbank called the GOP's approach to Latinos a "death wish," because the Party is alienating the fastest-growing group of voters with its anti-immigrant positioning.
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In a Washington Post column today, Dana Milbank wonders aloud about the GOP's anti-Latino strategy. Milbank writes, "What else but a death wish could explain the party's treatment of the fastest-growing voting bloc in the nation? First was the wave of Arizona-style immigration laws."
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Mitt Romney put his anti-immigrant views, including opposition to the DREAM Act, front and center in his campaign for President. When the Romney campaign rolled into Arizona this week, DREAMers were there to greet him.
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American University in conjunction with Latino Decisions held an freewheeling event today on "Latinos and the 2012 Elections" – a primer on the impact of the Latino vote this November. (We live-tweeted the event here.)
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Dreamers across the country have been protesting Mitt Romney's anti-immigrant stance against the DREAM Act and other immigrant measures.
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Today at 10:30 AM, Gary Segura & Matt Barreto of Latino Decisions are taking about how the Latino vote will affect both Republicans and Democrats in the elections this year. My colleague, Van Le, is live-tweeting from the event via @americasvoice -- check out her tweets for more!
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