Two days before the election, the immigration issue and/or immigrant voters are playing a big role in a handful of Congressional races. Here’s what we’re watching: Texas 22: Democrat Nick Lampson hopes to fend off a challenge from Republican Pete Olson with the help of South Asian voters. A Zogby poll has the Republican substantially [...]
Category Archives: Immigration: New Voters, Old Fears
Weekly Immigration News Round-Up 11/1
November 1, 2008 – 6:22 pm
GOP VP candidate Sarah Palin discussed a guest worker program with apple farmers in Pennsylvania on Friday. It was the first time she mentioned immigration at a campaign stop. Palin touted John McCain’s support of comprehensive immigration reform. The Feds are charging the former CEO of Agriprocessors, the company raided by ICE in one of [...]
Quick Hit: News 21 Video on Mother Jones
November 1, 2008 – 5:57 pm
As Rep. Mario and Lincoln Diaz-Balart campaigns come down to the wire in the Miami area, all eyes are on the non-Cuban Latinos who might swing the races to the Democrats for the first time in decades. Mother Jones has posted a video that was part of the Elizabeth Méndez Berry and Don Duncan’s News [...]
Obama’s Aunt is an Illegal Immigrant. Will Voters Care?
November 1, 2008 – 3:36 pm
Obama’s Aunt’s Boston apartment building. (AP Photo) The news hit the Drudge Report yesterday that Barack Obama’s half-aunt, a Kenyan immigrant named Zeituni Onyango, is living in the United States illegally after her application for asylum was rejected. The Times of London “discovered” her in a Boston housing project, where neighbors described her as “living [...]
This Time, South Florida Elections Are Not About Cuba
November 1, 2008 – 2:25 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAC9ucoO-kQ As News 21 discovered last summer, the long-running Diaz-Balart dynasty seems to be coming to an end. Mario and Lincoln Diaz-Balart, both conservative Republicans, have held their South Florida Congressional seats for years, largely on the basis of their tough-on-Cuba stance. The brothers are losing their appeal, however, as their constituencies come to be [...]
Hipster Clothing Giant is Face of Pro-Immigrant Businesses
October 27, 2008 – 7:20 pm
(American Apparel advertisement.) Businesses have a common interest with immigrants, who often supply cheap labor with little complaint. This alliance has drawn the ire of anti-immigration groups in the past, and it is currently a cause of controversy in Arizona. That’s why individual companies are reluctant to publicly declare their support for more generous immigration [...]
Homeland Security to Crack Down Even Harder on Illegal Workers
October 26, 2008 – 6:29 pm
Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, whose department includes Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, announced last week that the government would begin mailing “no match” letters to employers suspected of hiring illegal immigrants. These letters would notify employers that some of their employees were using Social Security numbers that did not match names in the Social [...]
Weekly Immigration News Round-Up 10/25
October 25, 2008 – 5:02 pm
A new Pew Hispanic Center report says that Latinos made up half of the nation’s growth since 2000. By 2007, they accounted for 15 percent of the population. USA Today takes a look at immigration in Arizona, where the issue is very much on the political radar. The collapse of the housing industry has led [...]
More Engaged Than Ever, Asian Voters Are Increasingly Important in Virginia
October 23, 2008 – 7:12 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBF9OVB_jV8 With a tight race for Virginia’s 13 electoral votes, the southern state’s substantial Asian immigrant population is in a position to influence the outcome, and Asian volunteers are working to get out the vote in their communities. Check out this Web documentary by filmmaker Adele Pham, featuring Asian-Americans in Falls Church, a Washington, D.C. [...]
