News Taco reports that Tea Party leader and founder of the Immigration Reform Coalition of Texas, Rebecca Forest, stated that Hispanic legislators are the reason enough anti-immigration legislation hasn't passed this legislative season. Her solution to the "problem?" Get rid of them.
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Representative Lamar Smith and Elton Gallegly wrote an op-ed in the LA Times about their E-Verify bill. They forgot to mention their plan would cause the loss of almost 800,000 jobs, force 4 million more workers into an administrative quagmire, cause an undue burden on small businesses, nearly wipe...
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President Barack Obama embarks this week on a pilgrimage familiar to generations of New York politicians, making a rare presidential trip to Puerto Rico that accentuates his campaign's emerging focus on Hispanics as central to his reelection bid.
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The facts researcher Rakesh Kochhar delivered last week to the local chapter of the National Hispanic Professional Organization shouldn't have been a surprise. The economist with the Pew Hispanic Center in Washington told his audience that the Hispanic population in Tennessee and across the United States has been...
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Latino Decisions and impreMedia released polling today that shows Latino voters prioritize immigration, and do so because they view the issue through a personal lens. These are some of the important findings that should catch the attention of both political parties as the 2012 cycle begins.
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The island's residents may not be able to vote for him on Election Day, but President Obama has good reason to head to Puerto Rico next week — and not just for the Caribbean music and the Creole cooking. When he sets down in San Juan on Tuesday, Obama...
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If you follow the national debate in Washington -- or, worse, on cable television -- it is easy to suppose that voters base their political decisions on anger over the deficit or the prospect of Medicare privatization or some idiot congressman's proclivity for texting racy pictures of himself to...
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Latino voters have very real and concrete concerns about the absence of an immigration policy that addresses our times. A majority of Latinos personally know someone who is undocumented and a quarter of Latino voters say they have direct knowledge of someone who has been deported or is undergoing...
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A short but compelling lesson in history: Leading up to the 2010 elections, polling showed immigration to be the second most important concern of Latinos (after the economy). Still Alex Sink, a 2010 Florida candidate for Governor, and her gubernatorial campaign made a strategic decision to deemphasize immigration and...
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The biggest political story over the past week didn't involve a bus tour, sordid tweets sent from a congressman's account or even the posturing over whether to raise the nation's debt ceiling. Instead, it was the no-thrills release of a 16-page report by the Census bureau, which underscored a...
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