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 [...]
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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. [...]
Weekly Immigration News Round-Up 10/18
October 19, 2008 – 2:25 pm
A Eureka, Calif. newspaper takes a look at immigration in the national election. Where do the candidates stand? Pretty close together. Paul Kanjorski and Nick Lampson, two of the endangered Democratic Congressman that News 21 looked at this summer, might get a boost from the financial crisis. A new poll shows Kanjorski catching up to [...]
McCain Attempting to Pander to Colombians?
October 16, 2008 – 5:50 pm
Many voters who watched the presidential debate last night were likely confused by John McCain’s reference to the Colombia Free Trade Agreement, which Barack Obama opposes. For most Americans, this is a minor issue of little to no concern. But former News 21 advisor John Judis points out that Colombians are a growing constituency in [...]
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 [...]
Weekly Immigration News Round-Up, 10/4
October 5, 2008 – 7:06 am
In California, more than 1,150 suspected illegal immigrants were arrested during a three-week sweep by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. At the Huffington Post, Jeremy Goren tries to discern the presidential candidates’ stances on immigration. In Arizona, notorious Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced he had received more than 900 calls on his illegal immigration tip [...]
Where Do Asian Voters Stand?
October 2, 2008 – 7:42 pm
The presidential campaigns and the press have focused a good deal of energy on Latino voters, especially in western states where they could pay a pivotal role. But what about our second largest group of immigrants? Asians make up 5 percent of the United States. While the largest Asian populations are in the solid Democratic [...]
Latino Voters Increasingly Pessimistic About Life in the U.S.
September 27, 2008 – 10:29 am
The economic crisis and recent spate of immigration raids have dampened Latino voters’ morale, according to a new Pew Hispanic Center study. Half of the 2,000 Latinos surveyed said that their situation was worse today than a year ago. Sixty-three percent of Latinos who had immigrated to the U.S. felt that way. In 2007, a [...]
