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Hispanics Are Likely to Play Larger Role in Next Elections
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyWith historic victories in the midterm elections, Hispanics flexed their growing political muscle, helping elect -- and defeat -- well-known top-tier candidates in places like California and Nevada, New Mexico and Florida. At the same time, a new political profile of Hispanic Republican leaders emerged, giving a clear and loud warning to the Democratic Party that the Latino vote is not a monolithic bloc that the party could continue to take for granted. Now, with the changes brought about by the 2010 congressional reapportionment, Hispanics are likely to play a larger role in national ...
Did Arizona Immigration Policies Deprive State of Federal Dollars?
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsArizona came out a winner last week when the Census Bureau released 2010 population figures. Or did it? The Grand Canyon State will gain a House seat to bring its total to nine when Congress is reapportioned before the 2012 election. But in the competition for billions in federal funding for Medicaid, education, transportation and other services, Arizona may turn out a loser. In a Huffington Post piece titled "Did Arizona Shoot Itself in the Foot?," political scientist Michael McDonald writes that Arizona may lose as much as $775 million in federal grants per year over the next decade ...
U.S. Latinos Lack National Leader, Survey Finds
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyWho speaks on a national level for Latinos living in the United States? That job, according to Latinos themselves, is waiting to be filled, according to a new survey out Monday. Asked by the Pew Hispanic Center to name "the most important Latino leader in the country today," nearly two-thirds -- 64 percent -- of Hispanic respondents said they did not know. An additional 10 percent said "no one." Some seven percent of Hispanics said Sonia Sotomayor, the newest justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, is the nation's most important Latino leader. She was the most frequently named person in the ...
Economy and Foreclosures Make Latino Voters Moving Targets for Democrats
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyIn 2008, nearly 70 percent of Latino voters supported Barack Obama and helped Democrats expand their majorities in the House and Senate. But two years later, a new survey shows that Hispanic voters are far less motivated than most other Americans to go to the polls, a finding that could have a major impact on key races in California, Nevada, Texas and Florida, where Latinos make up between 15 and 20 percent of registered voters. Leslie Sanchez, president of the Impacto Group and author of "Los Republicanos: Why Hispanics and Republicans Need Each Other," said the the apathy among some Latinos ...
For Illegal Immigrants, the End of Tolerance?
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyNEW YORK – Amid the intense national debate over immigration, news came late in the week that 1 in 12 children born in the United States in 2008 were offspring of illegal immigrants, an estimate that could add fodder in the current clamor over birthright citizenship. The figures, published by the Pew Hispanic Center, a nonpartisan research group in Washington, could embolden anti-illegal-immigration conservatives in Washington and elsewhere who are calling for changes in the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment to deprive children of illegal immigrants born in the United States the ...
Janet Napolitano: Leave 14th Amendment Alone!
By David Knowles - AOL News(Aug. 13) -- The push to revise the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution -- which guarantees American citizenship to any child born within our country's borders -- is not sitting well with Homeland Security Chief Janet Napolitano. "I have to tell you I have [been] surprised, to say the least, that the discussions we have had about amending the U.S. Constitution [have happened] before we can even get to the table about amending the statues that carry out immigration policy," Napolitano said at a press briefing today. "Any talk of amending the Constitution is just wrong." As Napolitano ...
Opinion: Citizen by Birth? Check the Constitution
By not in system - AOL News(Aug. 13) -- The Pew Hispanic Center released a study about illegal immigrants and their children on Wednesday that is sure to have talking heads and pundits racing to the airwaves to spew their pet constitutional views about the so-called "birthright amendment" to the Constitution. But while there may be a lot of heat, there probably won't be much light on the issue. The Pew study found that 340,000 of the 4.3 million babies born in the U.S. in 2008 were children of illegal immigrants, and that of the 5.1 million children of undocumented immigrants, 4 million were born inside the U.S. The ...
Children of Unauthorized Immigrants: By the Numbers
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(Aug. 11) -- In a new report sure to rock the cradle in the debate over whether to tinker with the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the Pew Hispanic Center estimates that 8 percent of all babies born in the United States in 2008 had "unauthorized immigrant parents" -- meaning that their parents were in the country in violation of immigration law. Because of so-called "birthright citizenship," those roughly 340,000 babies were automatically granted U.S. citizenship. Though the Pew report is cautious to steer clear of making any sweeping generalizations about what these numbers mean or ...
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