Morning NewsTaco
Monday June 18, 2012
Turning Hispanic numbers into political clout (The Miami Herald): This week, the Sunshine State will play host to more than 1,200 Hispanic elected and appointed officials from every level of government in communities across the country.
Obama to Permit Young Migrants to Remain in U.S. (The New York Times): Hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants who came to the United States as children will be allowed to remain in the country without fear of deportation and able to work, under an executive action the Obama administration announced on Friday.
Obama Immigration Decision Boosts Latino Enthusiasm: Poll (Huffington Post): Democrats say President Barack Obama’s announcement that the government will no longer deport some young undocumented immigrants was about policy, not politics, but it’s nonetheless likely to help him among Latino voters, according to a poll released Sunday.
Reporter interrupts Obama’s immigration remarks (USA Today): As President Obama explained his major immigration policy switch this afternoon with a Rose Garden statement, he got into an unexpected verbal tussle with a reporter.
Mexicans hail Obama’s call for a freeze on deporting young illegal immigrants (+video) (The Christian Science Monitor): Nothing raises the ire of Mexicans more than stories like this: a young Mexican, brought illegally to the US as a baby, is deported as a young adult back “home,” despite having no family ties inMexico, and often not even speaking Spanish.
Obama scores on immigration, but it’s still ‘the economy, stupid’ (The Christian Science Monitor): Barack Obama’s surprise announcement on immigration this week – in essence, a DREAM Actend-run around Congress – had immediate political benefits for an incumbent president fighting to win a second term. It knocked presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney off-message, forcing him to answer for his own very hard line on immigration during the GOP primary fight (“self-deportation”) and pretty much had him muttering his agreement with Obama about treating with mercy as well as justice young immigrants brought to this country by their parents.
Romney won’t say he’ll overturn immigration order (Associated Press): Mitt Romney is refusing to say that he would overturn President Barack Obama’s new policy allowing some young illegal immigrants to stay in the United States.
The Immigration Debate: Readers Respond to “We Are Americans, Just Not Legally” (Time): In this week’s issue of TIME, Vargas spotlights the growing immigration-rights movement and the difficulties of the citizenship process. His story has received strong reactions — both positive and negative — online and through social media. Here are some of the best responses that readers shared onTIME Ideas.
Which Way Will Hispanic Evangelicals Turn in November? (National Journal): More than 150 leaders of major evangelical Christian groups have signed a statement urging Congress to step up efforts to pass comprehensive immigration reform, a significant break away from the conservative party’s typically harsh stance on the issue.
Wooing swing states means addressing economy, voting blocs (UPI): Democrats and Republicans are playing up the nation’s economic situation, asking Americans to give President Obama four more years to whip the economy back into shape or elect presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and install his economic plans.
Rangel’s 42-Year Stint in Congress Hinges on N.Y. Latino Turnout (Bloomberg): This year, it was the state Legislature that drew a new district for Rangel, one that may end his 42-year House career. The remapping takes away much of Manhattan’s Upper West Side, where the co-founder of the Congressional Black Caucus has garnered votes for decades, and stretches the district’s northern border through Latino areas of the Bronx.
Iowa View: Why Latino studies matter (Des Moines Register): In a recent letter (June 11), Lyle D. Horman of Pella demands that our universities “abolish all the ‘grievance studies’ course offerings (women’s studies, Latino studies, etc.) and dismiss their faculty.” He further suggests that we end “signing bonuses and too-high salaries offered to minority candidates.”
