Nov 08
A cog in the wheel of local enforcement legislation, Arizona state Senator and now Senate President-elect, Russell Pearce, predictably said he will continue his immigration crusade to repeal part of the 14th Amendment despite the looming state budget crisis. A recent article points out that Pearce, in the throes of last minute campaigning, pledged that …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/11/08/arizona-state-senator-russell-pearce-continues-immigration-crusade-despite-budget-crisis/
Nov 04
An interesting post-election thread is the issue of why so many polls underestimated voter turnout, specifically in races where the Democratic candidate won. The starkest example comes from the state of Nevada where the Democratic candidate for Senate, Harry Reid, beat his Republican challenger, Sharron Angle, by 5 points. Polls published by the Las Vegas …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/11/04/pollsters-still-underestimating-the-latino-vote/
Nov 03
Last night, GOP candidates won a number of key Senate, House and gubernatorial races as well as a majority in the House of Representatives. The night, however, wasn’t a total wash for the Democratic Party who managed to hold onto a majority in the Senate. Headlining the Senate races, Nevada Senator Harry Reid held onto …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/11/03/is-the-latino-vote-up-for-grabs-midterm-polling-and-the-future-of-the-latino-vote/
Nov 01
As people head to the polls tomorrow, they will consider a wide range of important issues—the economy, health care, unemployment, deficit spending, tax cuts and immigration to name a few. Not all voters are single issue voters, nor will people vote strictly down party or demographic lines. But whomever people vote for, it is critically …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/11/01/setting-the-stage-for-immigration-reform-who-do-you-want-at-the-curtain-call/
Oct 20
There are several things the public can count on each election season—a deluge of non-stop political advertising, daily tracking polls, and now to an increasing degree, false claims about immigrants by politicians looking for a cheap way to score political points.
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/10/20/more-election-time-anti-immigrant-antics/
Oct 18
While some candidates continue to make political fodder out of immigration and border security on the campaign trail, administration officials are pushing Congress to get real about overhauling our broken immigration system. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner, Alan Bersin, recently commented that Congress needs to ‘get serious about a post-election immigration overhaul if the …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/10/18/us-border-czar-calls-on-congress-to-get-serious-about-immigration-reform/
Oct 14
Today, the Immigration Policy Center released its latest report documenting the size and importance of an emerging voting bloc, New Americans (naturalized U.S. citizens and children of immigrants born after 1965 when the current wave of immigration from Latin American and Asia began). In The New American Electorate: The Growing Political Power of Immigrants and …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/10/14/census-data-confirms-immigrant-voting-bloc-still-growing/
Oct 12
Well it’s finally here—open season on immigrants. You don’t even have to stare into the headlights of campaign politics to observe how blithely some candidates have taken aim at their opponents and managed to catch immigrants in their crosshairs. Two recent campaign ads portray undocumented immigrants as darkly-clothed thieves—like in one of those overly-dramatized alarm …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/10/12/from-bad-to-worse-immigrant-smearing-in-a-time-of-midterm-cholera/
Oct 05
With midterm election campaigning well underway, some local candidates are lifting up state and local immigration enforcement legislation as a means to garner public support. Unfortunately, as is often the case when politics meets reality, not everyone is on board with local enforcement laws like Arizona’s SB1070—key provisions of which were enjoined by a federal …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/10/05/utah-leaders-balk-at-arizona-esque-immigration-enforcement-bill/
Oct 04
There can be advantages to going it alone. Despite two years of repeated attempts to get a bipartisan immigration reform bill in the Senate, Senators Menendez (D-NJ) and Leahy (D-VT) finally said “enough” and introduced the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2010 (CIR 2010) last week. Plenty of people have pointed out that the bill …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/10/04/sen-menendez-aims-for-lame-duck-urges-advocates-to-focus-on-policy-of-cir-2010/
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