09/28/12 Earlier this week we wrote about how anti-immigrant extremist Congressman Steve King (R-IA) has suddenly decided to pull back on a plan to sue President Obama over his deferred action policy.  We think it’s because his Congressional race against former Iowa first lady Christie Vilsack has gotten close–much, much closer than he’d like, so close [...]
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09/28/12 A diverse array of voices are making the case for the TRUST Act – a sensible immigration compromise passed by the California legislature that would re-focus state immigration enforcement towards individuals convicted or charged with serious crimes.  Cardinal Roger Mahony, Archbishop Emeritus of Los Angeles, writes an op-ed in today’s Los Angeles Times calling on [...]
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09/27/12 Time is running out in California for the TRUST Act.  California’s Governor, Jerry Brown, only has until THIS weekend to sign the bill, and we’re asking everyone to call (916) 445-2841 to ask Gov. Brown to sign the bill TODAY. Lawrence Downes in the New York Times today explains the significance of the TRUST Act: [...]
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09/27/12 Earlier this week, America’s Voice unveiled our spotlight on six key Senate races of importance to Latino and immigrant voters—and all those who care about common-sense immigration reform.  We evaluated the power of the Latino voter community in each state and summarized where each U.S. Senate candidate stands on the issue. One of the contests we [...]
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09/27/12 In June, Representative Steve King (R-IA)–one of the most anti-immigrant members of Congress–sent out a fundraising appeal to his list of supporters, declaring his plans to sue the President of the United States.  The extremist Rep. King disagreed with the President’s plan to offer immigrant youth temporary relief from deportation, and believed a lawsuit was [...]
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09/27/12 Today’s editorial in the Washington Post blasts Mitt Romney’s handling (or better put, mishandling) of the immigration issue and offers some cogent advice to the candidate himself: [I]f Mr. Romney really wants to make inroads into Mr. Obama’s lead among Hispanics, what he needs is an immigration policy that is fair, cogent and economically rational. That would be [...]
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09/26/12 The Romney presidential campaign continues to duck answering basic questions regarding a potential President Romney’s immigration policy. Yesterday, Radio Bilingüe featured both Obama and Romney campaign spokespeople on host Samuel Orozco’s Spanish language show.  During the interview, Romney spokesperson Sharon Castillo refused to say whether Romney would keep or rescind the deferred action program for DREAMers–yet still tried to [...]
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09/26/12 A spate of new polls offer further evidence that the old conventional wisdom on immigration politics is like, so yesterday. The old conventional wisdom went something like this: Democrats should avoid controversy by staying away from hot button issues like immigration.  Leaning in only mobilized conservatives, pushed swing votes away, and put Democrats on the [...]
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09/26/12 One of the most closely watched non-presidential races this fall is the Elizabeth Warren – Scott Brown Senate matchup in Massachusetts, an intense and expensive fight to reclaim the seat formerly held by Teddy Kennedy for the Democrats.  On one side is Democrat Elizabeth Warren, Harvard Law professor and consumer rights advocate extraordinaire.  On the [...]
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09/26/12 Editor’s Note: To remind you to vote FOR question 4 on the Maryland ballot in November, RSVP for this Facebook event page, and declare that you intend to vote FOR the Maryland DREAM Act. The DREAM Act is on the ballot in Maryland this fall. Last year, the Maryland General Assembly passed legislation granting in-state [...]
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09/25/12 Remember that crazy anti-immigrant law out of Alabama – HB 56? The one that was so bad that we referred to it as the monster of all immigration laws, which also resulted in a mass-exodus of Alabama’s Hispanic population? Here’s a reminder from an article in Bloomberg today: The Alabama law’s intent was to attack [...]
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09/25/12 Today, America’s Voice releases a spotlight on six key Senate races of importance to Latino and immigrant voters—and all those who care about common sense immigration reform.  The analysis evaluates the power of the Latino voter community in each state and summarizes where each U.S. Senate candidate stands on the issue.  America’s Voice will release a [...]
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09/25/12 Today is National Voter Registration Day. While a broad coalition is working to get people registered to vote, a rash of state laws have been passed to inhibit that process. La Opinión editorializes about those new restrictive state voting laws — and gets to the crux of their purpose. The intent is not to protect the [...]
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09/24/12 Earlier today we shared with you Stephen Colbert‘s segment on Republicans and the Latino vote.  Turns out Ann Coulter was talking about the same topic this weekend during a roundtable discussion with host George Stephanopoulos, Univision anchor Jorge Ramos, former Clinton labor secretary Robert Reich and former Obama domestic policy adviser Melody Barnes.  But, as expected, Coulter was [...]
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09/24/12 The Romney campaign revealed a new Latino strategy at last week’s Univisión forum and it “worked”…for 35 minutes.  A BuzzFeed interview with Univisión’s Maria Elena Salinas reveals the true story behind the boisterous audience at last week’s Univisión forum with Mitt Romney, and the far more reserved audience that welcomed President Obama. Although both candidates [...]
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09/24/12 Mitt Romney had quite a time chasing the Hispanic vote last week, speaking to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, going on Univision only to call DREAM Act youth “illegal aliens,” and suffering the release of a tape that–among other things–caught him speaking about how Hispanics voting Democrat would mean “we’re in trouble…as a nation.” Stephen [...]
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09/24/12 Cross-Posted at Latino Decisions and Latino Vote Matters. By Gary Segura, a Principal of Latino Decisions and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University: Week 5 of the ImpreMedia/Latino Decisions 2012 Tracking Poll reveals stabilizing numbers in the Presidential election, growing Latino support in the generic House ballot and—perhaps most importantly for Democratic prospects overall [...]
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09/21/12 TO: Ruben Navarrette FROM:  Frank Sharry RE:  Thanks for the shout out Hey Ruben, I read your nationally-syndicated column today.  Thanks for the shout out to America’s Voice and me.  As is always the case, your column is a must-read.  I don’t always agree with you, but especially during non-election years it’s my humble opinion [...]
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09/21/12 Imagine how different the presidential race would be if Mitt Romney had not embraced hardline policies on immigration during the Republican primaries.  With interviews on Univisión and Telemundo and a speech at the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce this week, Romney might have had a lot more of substance to say to Latino voters had [...]
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09/21/12 It’s been quite a week in immigration.  Mitt Romney and President Obama each appeared on Univision with anchors Jorge Ramos and Maria Elena Salinas this week, and both failed to adequately answer questions posed to them about immigration and their history of stances on immigration policy. First, Romney.  This is the candidate whom, during the [...]
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09/21/12 Yesterday, Mitt Romney spoke at a candidate’s forum on Univisión, after other recent Latino-focused appearances in front of the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and on Telemundo. There was a bit of revisionist history going on last night in Mitt Romney’s performance on Univisión. And while the crowd of Romney supporters seemed to like it, [...]
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09/20/12 During an interview today with President Barack Obama, Univision anchor Jorge Ramos asks “What is your biggest failure?” The President responds: “Well…my biggest failure so far is that we haven’t gotten comprehensive immigration reform done. So we’re going to be continuing to work on that. But it’s not for lack of trying or desire, and [...]
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09/20/12 We live-tweeted the interview with Mitt Romney yesterday — check out tweets on that from us and others. We’ll also be live-tweeting the President’s interview today, at 2:10 PM est, so be sure to follow us @americasvoice and tune in. Univisión’s Jorge Ramos and Maria Elena Salinas grilled Mitt Romney on immigration and other topics [...]
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09/20/12 Cross-Posted at Jack and Jill Politics: Does Mitt Romney even hear himself when he talks? By now we all know about the new video Mother Jones released of Mitt Romney writing  off 47% of Americans by calling us “dependents” who would vote for Obama no matter what.  The punditocracy has been chattering ever since as [...]
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09/20/12 We’ve posted a longer video of Mitt Romney’s answers to immigration questions at yesterday’s Univision forum below. But, first, we were struck by this clip where Romney refers to DREAMers as “illegal aliens” – parroting the language of the anti-immigrant fringe: Heres’s the full answer on immigration. Romney never really answered the questions on what [...]
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09/19/12 This is apparently the Mitt Romney video that keeps on giving. Yesterday we posted a Mother Jones video in which Mitt Romney talked about how life would be easier if he were Latino (despite the obvious tone-deafness of such a comment coming from a wealthy white one-percenter who actively advocates policies that would make life harder [...]
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