http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x58A6o2NEBs Seven Long Island teenagers have been charged with hate crimes for the murder of an Ecuadorian immigrant earlier this month. The high school students were indicted today for an attack that ended with one of them stabbing Marcelo Lucero. In a case that tops last summer’s murder of Mexican immigrant Luis Ramirez in Shenandoah, [...]
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Teens Charged with Hate Crimes in Immigrant’s Murder
November 20, 2008 – 7:10 pm
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 [...]
What About the Asian Vote?
November 16, 2008 – 5:56 pm
A poll published in October, which billed itself as the first multi-ethnic survey of Asian voters, showed a third of Asian voter were undecided, with 41 percent going for Obama and 24 percent for McCain. Now, a CNN exit poll shows Asian voters, who made up 2 percent of the national electorate, went for Obama [...]
Guyanese Immigrants Help to Rebuild Schenectady
November 16, 2008 – 11:38 am
Schenectady, N.Y. (Photo by Elephi Pelephi, via Flickr) An article on reversing urban blight in the Cleveland Plain Dealer uncovered an interesting story in the once-dying city of Schenectady, N.Y. In a bid to save itself from a shrinking population and economic base after General Electric Co. moved out, Schenectady, near Albany, recruited immigrants from [...]
Quick Hit: Would Clinton Have Done Better Than Obama Among Latinos?
November 13, 2008 – 10:56 am
Here’s another exit poll, this one with a hypothetical Hillary Clinton-John McCain match-up. The results are slightly disturbing in what they suggest about race relations in America (look at the last item). Perhaps the mythical black-brown divide exists for a very small minority of Latino voters. Or maybe they just really like Hillary Clinton. From [...]
A Conservative Disputes Latino Voters’ Influence, But Latino Groups Have Reason to Celebrate
November 13, 2008 – 10:28 am
At The National Review, Mark Krikorian pooh-poohs the idea the idea that the Latino vote made a difference for Obama. While the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials says that between 9.6 million and 11 million Latinos voted in the election, an increase of at least 2 million over 2004, Krikorian notes that [...]
Weekly Immigration News Round-Up, 11/9
November 9, 2008 – 7:51 pm
Though the election dominated last week’s news and will likely dominate next week’s as well, other things have been happening in the world of immigration. Here are a few: The head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement resigned without explanation, effective November 15. Julie L. Myers, who was appointed to the position in 2005, oversaw high-profile [...]
