The FBI says hate crimes against Latinos are increasing Hate groups like the Ku Klux Klan are increasingly targeting immigrants, hoping to widen their own appeal by cashing in on anti-immigrant sentiments. The economic downturn may also be leading to the scapegoating of immigrants. An ICE agent was indicted for bribery and other charges. Authorities [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Demographic Shifts in North Carolina Mean Bad News for GOP
October 15, 2008 – 3:04 pm
The skyline of Charlotte, N.C. (Wikipedia photo) Pollsters are calling the state a toss-up, and recent numbers show Barack Obama up slightly in North Carolina. North Carolina? While the state was once a member in good standing of the solid south, North Carolina has changed over the past decade, as highly educated workers are drawn [...]
Asian Voters Leaning Toward Obama, but Many Undecided
October 7, 2008 – 6:52 am
In what is billed as the most comprehensive survey of Asian voters ever conducted, researchers have found that more than a third of likely Asian voters were still undecided as of late September, along with 41 percent who are planning to vote for Obama and 24 percent supporting McCain. Only 8 percent of the general [...]
Changing the Political Game in Miami
August 21, 2008 – 10:53 am
When News21 producers Don Duncan and Elizabeth Mendez-Berry traveled to to Miami in order to investigate shifts in the Latino community, what they found was that Cuban voices are no longer the only Hispanic ones in Miami politics. As part of the upcoming elections there, local politicians are focused on campaigning in Colombian and Nicaraguan [...]
Dems Recognize South Asian Political Power
August 18, 2008 – 2:08 pm
Lehman Brothers’ Managing Director Romita Shetty Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean has appointed four co-chairs to the DNC’s new South Asian American Leadership Council, which will organize South Asian voters—and more importantly, campaign donors—during the 2008 election. The co-chairs are high-up in the financial and technical fields: they are New York investor bankers Parag [...]
Anti-Immigration Measures Get Micro-Local
August 12, 2008 – 12:54 pm
Over the past two years, towns and suburbs around the country (Hazleton, Pa.; Farmers Branch, Texas) have cracked down on illegal immigration with local ordinances. These laws are usually designed to make it hard for illegal immigrants to find jobs or rent homes, and they have had mixed success. Now, it looks like the Washington, [...]
