Donald Trump was greeted by protests during multiple stops of his Nevada tour yesterday, including a visit to a Mexican restaurant where he pandered to a handful of Latino business owners from the state. Outside, immigrant families and their allies held signs reading “Dangerous, Divisive, Anti-Union. One protester included a young woman...
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Judging by their continued actions and statements, the Republican presidential ticket seems intent on personally insulting Latino voters and on driving more Latinos into the arms of the Democrats. As Adrian Carrasquillo writes in a BuzzFeed article titled, “Why #ThatMexicanThing Matters,” a “Latino thing” has become perhaps the most consequential storyline emanating...
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In a new piece for Medium, America’s Voice’s Gabe Ortíz reflects on his family’s immigration history and subsequent life in the United States in the context of Governor Pence’s dismissive “that Mexican thing again” comment from last night’s vice presidential debate. Ortíz notes that hidden in Pence’s attempt to dismiss...
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Latinos and immigrants responded to Mike Pence’s flippant “Senator, you’ve whipped out that Mexican thing again” remark to Tim Kaine during last night’s Vice-Presidential debate by turning a hashtag into a channel of patriotism, resilience and pride. According to TIME, #ThatMexicanThing became the third most tweeted moment from the debate. Below are...
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Crossposted from Medium. Mike Pence probably didn’t realize the wildfire he sparked when he tried to shut down Tim Kaine with that dismissive “Senator, you’ve whipped out that Mexican thing again” comment during last night’s Vice-Presidential debate. His running mate, Donald Trump, has been on a relentless smear campaign...
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Please note the following column was translated from Spanish to English and is available for reprint as long as the author is given proper credit. The column is available online in English here and Spanish here. In a new blog post, David Torres, the Spanish Media Advisor for America’s Voice, a newly naturalized citizen,...
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In Spanish here. Every time I hear comments like those Republican Governor Mike Pence said, with a certain disgust and classism, during the vice presidential debate on Tuesday, referring to “that Mexican thing” after his Democratic opponent Tim Kaine brought up a topic, I try to not immediately think of...
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North Carolina in the Top Four Nationally for New Voter Registrations Today, Voto Latino announced that their efforts to register Latino millennials has topped 100,000 nationally with North Carolina ranking in the top four, exceeded only by states with much larger Latino populations including Texas, California, and Florida. These unprecedented numbers...
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GOP’s Embrace of Nativism and Extremism Repels Florida’s Changing Demographic Mix In a new piece for the New York Times, Julia Preston and Lizette Alvarez highlight what many Floridians, especially Latino voters, know to be true: a new generation of diverse voters is redefining the state’s political landscape. Chief among the...
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74% of likely voters have heard of Donald Trump’s ongoing sexist and racist attacks on Alicia Machado, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll released today. Trump’s insults — including body-shaming the former Miss Universe as “Miss Piggy” and insulting her as “Miss Housekeeping” because of her heritage — have...
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