Morning NewsTaco
Friday July 13, 2012
Obama Slips With Latino Voters: Quinnipiac Poll (Huffington Post): President Barack Obama still has a considerable lead with Latino voters, but it may be slipping, according to a poll out Wednesday from Quinnipiac University.
Mitt Romney demonizes immigrants and still expects Latino support in November (New York Daily News): Unless the presumptive GOP candidate Mitt Romney responds with real relief plans for immigrants, Latino support will carry Obama to a second term as President.
Hispanic pols slam Marco Rubioc (Boston Herald): Two of Boston’s Hispanic political leaders took issue yesterday with the notion that U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio could warm Latino voters to former Gov. Mitt Romney if the presumptive GOP presidential nominee asks the Florida senator to share the Republican ticket.
Central American immigrants flood north through Mexico to US (Associated Press/Fort Wayne News Sentinel): While the number of Mexicans heading to the U.S. has dropped dramatically, a surge of Central American migrants is making the 1,000-mile northbound journey this year, fueled in large part by the rising violence brought by the spread of Mexican drug cartels. Other factors, experts say, are an easing in migration enforcement by Mexican authorities, and a false perception that Mexican criminal gangs are not preying on migrants as much as they had been.
National, local Latino groups step up LGBT support (Wisconsin Gazzette): Twenty-one of the nation’s leading Hispanic organizations are launching a public-education campaign to build support within the Latino community for LGBT family members. The campaign, called “Familia es Familia” (”Family is Family”) was announced on July 8 at the annual conference of the National Council of La Raza in Las Vegas. Freedom to Marry, a nationwide coalition that campaigns for marriage equality, is providing seed funding for the project, which also has a financial commitment from the Gill Foundation.
Texas’s Road To Victory in Its Decades-Long Fight Against Voting Rights (The Nation): Earlier this week, Attorney General Eric Holder declared in his address to the NAACP national convention in Houston what many voting rights advocates had been saying for months: that the photo voter ID law passed in Texas is a poll tax. Determining whether voter ID laws are as unconstitutional as poll taxes won’t be up to him, though. That honor goes to the US Supreme Court justices who lately have been signaling they may be ready to gut the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Why Hispanics Don’t Like Catholic Education (Huffington Post): It looks like the Catholic Church school strategy to reach out to the Hispanic population is working. As Stephanie Banchero and Stephanie Levitz stated in a recent story in The Wall Street Journal, “For the first time in decades, Catholic education is showing signs of life. Driven by expanding voucher programs, outreach to Hispanic-Catholics, and donations by business leaders, Catholic schools in several major cities are swinging back from closures and declining enrollment.”
Latinos Take Over Comic-Con, Making Comics Browner (Fox News Latino): From traditional comic book sellers and trends in popular culture, to some of Hollywood’s biggest film production and gaming companies, Comic-Con San Diego is the convention to see and be seen. Celebs are as ubiquitous as the comic book geeks, steam punk and animae fans who roam through the Convention Center in droves. The Latino creators – cartoon artists, editors, actors, directors, and comic and graphic writers – are fewer in number. But behind the scenes, these creators are actively inventing future worlds and characters more brown than their predecessors.
