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 [...]
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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 [...]
The Future of the Border, Part 1: The State of ICE
November 22, 2008 – 6:50 pm
Former ICE head Julie Myers. (Wikipedia photo) Since its creation in 2003 as part of the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has earned a reputation for controversy. It is perhaps best-known by the news-consuming public for the series of high-profile raids on employers, the most infamous of which was the Postville, Iowa [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Canada May Welcome More Immigrants
November 1, 2008 – 5:18 pm
After George W. Bush won the presidency in 2000 and again in 2004, many liberal Democrats who had supported Al Gore and John Kerry announced plans to move to Canada. For most, the threat was empty. But one of this year’s candidates will lose on Tuesday, and another round of disgruntled partisans might threaten to [...]
