Republican presidential candidate John McCain is running a new ad that seems to pit Latino interests against the Democratic candidate. In Spanish text and voiceovers, the ad notes that Obama neglected to mention a single Latin American country during his “citizen of the world” speech in Berlin. (Read more on Huffington Post)
Will this ad [...]
Tag Archives: immigrants
Google Map Serves as Reporting Tool for News21 Team
June 27, 2008 – 7:00 am
At the Columbia News21 project on immigration and elections, we began our reporting this summer with many story ideas and a whole country to work with. To help focus our efforts, we put together a Google map (see below) where we indicated electoral races that might be useful in our coverage of immigration (blue pins), [...]
Arizona Voter Registration Rules Target Illegal Immigrants, But Strike Elderly and Low Income
June 23, 2008 – 10:01 am
When Arizona citizens supported Proposition 200 (pdf) in 2004, they became the first state in the nation to require proof of citizenship in order to register to vote. Grassroots voter registration groups like Project Vote say the requirement has barred them from signing up one in nine eligible citizens who lack necessary documents, including 97-year-old [...]
Direction Sugar Land
June 20, 2008 – 1:04 pm
The Congressional seat in the 22nd District of Texas has been much in the news in recent years. Former Republican Majority House Leader Tom DeLay held it for 11 years, until his indictment in 2006 (for campaign finance violations) triggered a bizarre chain of events, that included a general election with a Republican write-in candidate [...]
Local Solutions for Illegal Immigration Problems?
June 17, 2008 – 5:36 pm
Last month, a federal court struck down an ordinance in Farmers Branch, Texas, that sought to ban landlords from renting to illegal immigrants. This Dallas suburb of 27,500 people is now waiting to hear from the court on a second ordinance – one that requires tenants to get a residency permit from City Hall [...]
