For Emmy-winning journalist Viridiana Vidal, the thought of her US citizen daughter being seen as less of an American because of her Mexican heritage was just too much. For years, Vidal had already been reporting on deportations and abuses faced by immigrants, and as journalist and a professional, she...
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Lin-Manuel Miranda may be winding down his role in his Tony-award winning musical “Hamilton,” but he definitely won’t be out of sight. The Daily Beast highlights his plan to get out the Latino vote in time for this November’s Presidential election: “I’m going to be trying to get out...
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In the race to replace retiring Sen. Barbara Boxer, California Republicans have been shut out of a spot on the fall ballot “for the first time since the state’s first direct election of Senators in 1914.” Under state rules, the top two finishers win spots on the fall ballot...
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GOP strategist and CNN commentator Ana Navarro ripped into Donald Trump during two TV appearances last week, showing the courage severely lacking from Republican leaders who are still supporting him even after his racist attacks on a federal judge. “It is highly offensive as a Hispanic. What he is doing is...
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Encarnacion Pyle of the Columbus Dispatch has a new piece out asking “Is fear of Trump fueling immigrants’ push for citizenship?” Naturalizations typically increase heading into a hotly contested presidential election. But this year, immigrants are expressing a clarifying motive: achieve the right to vote in order to defeat Donald Trump and...
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Donald Trump claims he loves “the Hispanics” and “cherishes women.” This Latina might disagree with that. Alicia Machado, a Venezuelan actress and model crowned Miss Universe in 1996, says that Trump mocked her as “Miss Piggy” after she gained weight and at one point humiliated her by forcing her...
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The 2016 Presidential campaign has exploded with a flood of anti-immigrant and anti-Latino vitriol from Republican candidates — and Latinos and immigrants are getting set to respond at the ballot box. A fantastic video and must-read post from Emerson Collective highlights a recent citizenship workshop hosted by Culinary Workers...
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The president of the nation’s largest Hispanic evangelical group is currently deciding whether or not to air a video message taped by Donald Trump for its annual conference this weekend. Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, President of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, told the Post that though he had not...
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After news broke last week that the Obama Administration was planning a new round of immigration raids targeting young mothers and unaccompanied children from Central America, leading Democratic voices and policy experts and advocates condemned the planned enforcement actions as morally wrong and misguided on policy. Additionally, as leading observers...
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Remember that 2012 “GOP Autopsy Report?” The one that called for Republicans to rally behind comprehensive immigration reform and to work on that whole Latino outreach thing? You’d think that now that Donald Trump is the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee for President, the RNC would just want to forget...
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