12/14/12 If our latest video doesn’t have you amped up enough about next year, check out this short (but fabulous) interview that United We Dream’s Cristina Jimenez did on Al Punto last Sunday, in which she explains to Jorge Ramos how and why UWD has resolved to push for citizenship for all 11 million undocumented immigrants [...]
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10/17/12 Following the presidential debate last night, we put together a Twitter roundup of our favorite comments on the debate.  Today, we’re putting together a blog roundup of responses commenting on who did better during the immigration segment of the debate, hitting Romney for his repeated use of the slur “illegals,” lifting up how Romney wants [...]
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10/03/12 The last time we saw Jorge Ramos, he was earning serious street cred grilling Mitt Romney and Barack Obama  about their respective immigration policies and immigration missteps, asking Romney not once but four times what he would do with Obama’s program to grant temporary relief to DREAMers. Last night Ramos went on the Colbert Report, engaging on [...]
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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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09/21/12 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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09/20/12 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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09/18/12 It’s Latino Week for Mitt Romney (and Hispanic Heritage Month for the rest of us), and the Republican candidate is already 0 for 2 when it comes to convincing Latino voters he’s on their side on immigration reform.  Romney’s speech before the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce yesterday was a dud, full of substance-free platitudes [...]
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09/14/12 President Obama, next week, you and Mitt Romney will sit down for interviews with Univision’s Jorge Ramos. No doubt, immigration will be a topic during both discussions. We’d like to encourage you to have a better answer than the one you gave to Agencia EFE yesterday, as reported by FOX News Latino: When asked if he regretted not [...]
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08/23/12 Editor’s Note: This article is an English translation from the original Spanish article, published on Univision.com, by Jorge Ramos. You can read it, en español, here. Since Ronald Reagan, any Republican candidate that gets less than a third of the Latino vote will lose the election. Dear Republicans: You will lose the Hispanic vote in [...]
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07/14/12 Last month, Latino Decisions and America’s Voice released polling of Latino voters in five battleground states: Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Nevada and Virginia. On Friday, July 13th, President Obama campaigned in Virginia. Univision’s Jordan Fabian noticed the President’s stump speech included language on immigration: President Obama briefly departed from his usual stump speech in Virginia Beach, [...]
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07/05/12 Four months before Election Day, and immigration is still a hot topic for Mitt Romney’s campaign.  The way he’s handling the topic, it’s sure to remain a heated question throughout the summer heading toward November. In an already-infamous interview with Newsmax last week, Romney announced what appeared to be a new position on immigration — until his [...]
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