News 21′s immigration coverage ends this week, after 6 months of ICE raids and tight electoral races. Within the dual themes of “New Voters” and “Old Fears,” we tracked the increasing power and rising visibility of immigrant voters, along with the backlash against them in places as far-flung as Hazleton, Pa. and Farmers Branch, Tex. [...]
Category Archives: Immigration: New Voters, Old Fears
Economic Crisis Puts a Strain on Immigrants
November 30, 2008 – 3:12 pm
El Salvador will be especially hard-hit by the economic crisis in the United States. (Miami Herald video) A series of stories in the Miami Herald has been following the effect the economic crisis is having on immigrants. Immigrants, especially those working in construction or service jobs, have been hard hit, and the impact is apparent [...]
Weekly Immigration News Round-Up, 11/22
November 23, 2008 – 12:17 pm
A University of Massachusetts survey of Asian Americans found that 80 percent paid attention to immigration issues. 58 percent said they were sympathetic to Latinos’ position on immigration and 52 percent supported a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told the Detroit Free Press, “I don’t expect much of a [...]
GOP Has “a Very, Very Serious Problem”
November 23, 2008 – 12:09 pm
Latino population distribution in 2000. The population has grown since then. (Wikipedia image) The decline in Latino support for Republican candidates has some in the party worried. With demographic trends showing an increasingly diverse country, any party that fails to appeal to minorities is going to have trouble winning elections. For the GOP, Florida is [...]
Candidates Spent $27.5 Million on Immigration Ads, Latino Group Says
November 23, 2008 – 10:22 am
Immigration is still a big issue, according to the Latino advocacy group America’s Voice. So big that presidential and congressional candidates spent $27.5 million running 253 advertisements about the issue during the run up to November 4. Here are a couple samples from close races. In many races, the issue was treated as a vehicle [...]
The Future of the Border, Part 2: What Will Obama Do?
November 22, 2008 – 7:29 pm
Gov. Janet Napolitano, likely the next homeland security secretary. (Wikipedia photo) Under a new, more liberal administration, ICE will presumably tone down the raids, and the website for the presidential transition says as much: Immigration raids are ineffective: Despite a sevenfold increase in recent years, immigration raids only netted 3,600 arrests in 2006 and have [...]
Backlash Against Newsday for Hate Crime Coverage
November 22, 2008 – 3:13 pm
Long Island-based Newsday has been following the Marcelo Lucero murder in great detail, even sending a reporter to Ecuador to interview his friends and family. But some see coverage of this case, which involves a group of American youths who allegedly attacked and killed an immigrant, as too positive about immigration. One Newsday reporter was [...]
Obama’s Victory Demonstrates Minority Voting Power
November 16, 2008 – 6:05 pm
We’ve looked at the Asian vote and the Latino vote as important demographics. Neither of these groups is monolithic, and immigrants of different national origins voted differently. But exit polls show that non-white voters, taken as a group, are increasingly powerful. Their overwhelming support for Obama helped the Democrat overcome a 12 point deficit among [...]
