Category: Palabra Final
No-brainer: Passing immigration reform could help California dig its way out of its fiscal mess
LatinaLista — Today’s big headline blogged and tweeted was that minority births now outnumber white births. It wasn’t a big surprise. Some had thought this already happened. Yet, the headline itself is just a headline. It doesn’t mean anything to the average person if it isn’t relevant to their lives. Most of us don’t work [...]
The inevitable unconservative conservative evolution of Latino voters
LatinaLista — It used to be Latino voters were so predictable. Any politician campaigning for office knew they could get Latino voters in their corner if they included on the stump: talk about strong family values, the immorality of abortion and homosexuality and, for Cubans, condemned Castro. Aside from strong family values, everything else has [...]
Immigration reform proposal brings all immigrant laborers into the conversation
LatinaLista — The main thesis of a new paper about immigration titled Rationalizing U.S. Immigration Policy: Reforms for Simplicity, Fairness, and Economic Growth revolves around this simple assertion: The economic consensus is that, taken as a whole, immigrants raise living standards for American workers by boosting demand and increasing productivity, contributing to innovation, and lowering prices [...]
Latina NM Governor latest GOP politician to challenge party
LatinaLista — Last week, we saw where GOP Rep. Bob Dold took on his party to do something right for women in defending Planned Parenthood from efforts by members of his own party to get it defunded. More and more, moderate Republicans are finally pushing back against the insane stances that Tea Party and far-right [...]
Far-right’s attack over dual citizenship is all about anti-immigrant hate
LatinaLista — News that former presidential candidate, and current Minnesota congressional representative, Michelle Bachmann, had joined her family in becoming a Swiss citizen in March (her husband is of Swiss descent) was met with so much vitriolic rhetoric, like only the far right know how to dole out, that Bachmann announced today that she is [...]
Facing federal lawsuit, Sheriff Joe Arpaio having a change of heart towards local Latino community
LatinaLista — It’s too bad that the Department of Justice is filing a lawsuit against the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, a.k.a. Sheriff Joe Arpaio, in a presidential election year. It’s too bad not because it shouldn’t be done, but precisely because it’s been needed to be done. But because we are in an election year, [...]
One GOP politician bucks his party to do what is right for women’s health
LatinaLista — It’s not often that Republican politicians will willfully stray from the party platform and do what they know in their hearts is the right thing to do, though the rest of their party doesn’t see it that way. One such politician is freshman Rep. Bob Dold of Illinois. While his peers want to [...]
The Conundrum: How to get Hispanic GOPers to sell Latino voters an inconvenient message and believe in it
LatinaLista — Not since Michael Steele was the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) perennial “foot-in-mouth” chairman have news web sites, bloggers and social media streams been ablaze, aflutter, aghast and amused at what someone from the RNC has said regarding party platform issues like what happened this morning. In what the RNC probably wanted to be [...]
A political trap Latino voters need to be wary of
LatinaLista — Most Latino voters have been feeling ignored, dismissed and pretty much invisible to the Romney camp up to this point. Though he is considered the presumptive GOP candidate, Romney has yet to soften his tone to show that he can equally be a President for all Americans, including Latinos, rather than just be [...]
AFL-CIO report reveals Latino immigrant workers are highest group to die on the job
LatinaLista — It’s never been a secret that US employers preferred to hire undocumented Latino immigrants for three reasons: they’re cheap labor, they’re expendable and they have no recourse, but to quit, if they don’t like job conditions, their boss or their pay. Even with the crackdown by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on businesses [...]
