Today’s Latino Politics Headlines
Supreme Court to Take a Look at Arizona’s Immigration Law Friday: The Supreme Court will meet behind closed doors on Friday to take a first look at a challenge to Arizona’s strict immigration law and decide whether or not to take up the case.
Ala. lawmakers rethink tough immigration law: A backlash from big business is prompting Alabama Republicans who pushed through the nation’s toughest law against illegal immigrants to have second thoughts, the Associated Press reports.
Santorum: Undocumented Immigrant Families Should Be Broken Up: According to Santorum, the solution to America’s immigration problem is more broken families: Families should be broken up when the law is broken, which includes illegal immigration, he added.
Romney: Illegal Immigrants Who Want a Green Card Must First Return Home: Mitt Romney said Friday that if elected president he would make illegal immigrants return to their home country in order to get a green card, in an apparent challenge to Newt Gingrich’s statement that he would let some illegal immigrants with deep-rooted ties to their community stay.
Texas Elections Are in Limbo Over Redistricting Issue: …the (Texas) Supreme Court agreed to enter a dispute that has dominated Texas politics for months: a controversy over the district lines drawn by state lawmakers and those created by a federal court.
Texas GOP chair says more Hispanics have won statewide office on the Republican ticket than as Democratic nominees: There are 29 statewide elected posts — two U.S. Senate seats, six executive-like positions (governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, state comptroller, land commissioner and agriculture commissioner), three seats on the Texas Railroad Commission, which oversees the energy sector, and nine seats each on the Texas Supreme Court and Court of Criminal Appeals.
Voting Laws: Michigan Legislation Could Restrict Voter Registration, Absentee Voters: Prospective Michigan voters might have trouble getting their ballots after the state Senate votes on two bills that would change the procedures for voter registration, absentee ballots and required identification.
Michigan Redistricting Spurs Joint Lawsuit Alleging Discrimination: A coalition of groups representing African-American and Latino voters filed a federal lawsuit against Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) in Detroit’s U.S. district court Thursday over newly redrawn state House districts.
Son of Mexican migrants heads Chicago Office of New Americans: At 29, Adolfo Hernandez is very proud of his Mexican roots and about the mission given him by Mayor Rahm Emanuel in the Office of New Americans to make Chicago into the city in the world that most welcomes immigrants.
Hamilton County Commissioner Fred Skillern jokes on rolling back voting rights: “Why don’t we go back to the Constitution when the only voters were white male property owners?”
Newt Gingrich’s Florida push: hires Marco Rubio’s ’10 campaign manager: In a sign of the ties between Newt Gingrich and Florida, the Republican presidential frontrunner has hired Jose Mallea, campaign chief for U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio’s 2010 race, to be his Florida director.
Hispanic Republican Governor named to conservative Hispanic Leadership Network: Republican Governor of Nevada, Brian Sandoval, the first Hispanic governor of that state, is helping a conservative Hispanic political group get their message out.
The Hispanic Leadership Network announced this week that Gov. Sandoval had joined its 14-member board of national committee members.
New group hopes to enlist immigrants into Occupy Wall Street movement: Just a few weeks after the Zucotti Park occupation started, in the first week of October, two people involved from the beginning of the movement, Phil Arnone, one of the 700 protesters arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge, and Emma McCumber, who slept many nights in the park, contacted immigrant workers’ centers and immigrant rights’ advocates to connect with existing community work and OWS.
