Morning NewsTaco
Monday August 27, 2012
Watch: Are Latino college enrollment gains enough? (ecampus news): HuffPost Live’s Alicia Menendez sets the stage to a great conversation by framing the issue of Latino educational achievement in its proper context: this is an American issue, the Huffington Post reports.
San Antonio mayor readies for role as Democrats’ rising Latino star (Houston Chronicle): Eight years ago, a then-unknown Illinois state senator named Barack Obama gave the same speech. It was a defining moment for Obama, who was then running for the U.S. Senate and who moved from relative obscurity to rock-star status overnight. Now, Castro, 37, will take the stage in Charlotte, N.C., as the youngest mayor of any major city in the country. Much like Obama, he’ll be introduced to a national audience as an up-and-coming Democrat and representative of the future of the Democratic Party.
Conventions to spotlight Latinos (Houston Chronicle): The unprecedented Latino presence at the quadrennial gatherings is concrete evidence of the growing importance of America’s Hispanics – now the nation’s largest minority group. But it’s also a reflection of how both parties must attract Latino votes or face political defeat. As TexasRepublican Party chairman Steve Munisteri said recently, “It’s a matter of political survival.”
Jeb Bush and John McCain Call on Romney to Focus on Latino Vote (Fox News Latino): Sen. John McCain and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush are urging the Republican presidential nominee to focus on reaching out to Latino voters, as the Democrats plan a new round on attacks highlighting Mitt Romney’s tough positions on immigration.
Republican convention cuts schedule, but keeps Latino speakers (Voxxi): Latino politicians scheduled to speak Monday at the Republican National Convention will now be weaved into a three-day schedule after Tropical Storm Isaac cut the convention short by one day, planners announced Sunday.
Romney Camp Says Obama Has Failed Latinos (U.S. News & World Report): Bristling over criticism from the Democrats that Mitt Romney is anti-Latino, based on my post earlier today, Romney aides sent me a pointed response a few minutes ago. “President Obama and his allies can’t obscure the fact that Hispanics have been hit disproportionately hard in the Obama economy, with double-digit Hispanic unemployment and millions more of our neighbors in poverty,” said Romney spokesman Alberto Martinez in an email.
U.S. court to test South Carolina voter ID law (Reuters): South Carolina this week will try to convince a United States federal court its new voter identification law doesn’t discriminate against black voters, contrary to a finding by the federal government.
Immigration agents sue over new deferred deportation program (Los Angeles Times): A small group of immigration agents is suing the Obama administration, saying that the agents should not be required to implement a program to grant work permits and halt the deportation of some young illegal immigrants.
Napolitano sued over new immigration policy (The Hill): The author of the strict Arizona immigration law that was mostly shot down by the Supreme Court this summer has filed a lawsuit on behalf of 10 immigration officials against the Obama administration for its recently revamped deferred-deportation policy.
Parents deported, what happens to US-born kids? (CBSNews): At least 5,100 U.S. citizen children in 22 states live in foster care, according to an estimate by the Applied Research Center, a New York-based advocacy organization, which first reported on such cases last year.
And an unknown number of those children are being put up for adoption against the wishes of their parents, who, once deported, are often helpless to fight when a U.S. judge decides that their children are better off here.
New U.S. immigration program can help farmworkers (Associated Press/USA Today): Much of the attention on a new U.S. immigration program that started Wednesday has focused on the hundreds of thousands of students who are in the country illegally and now have the chance at work permits and deferred deportation. But just as many young workers, especially farmworkers, could benefit as well.
GOP’s hard-line immigration stance concerns some Utah delegates (Salt Lake Tribune): Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff looks at the immigration plank of the national Republican Party’s platform and sees the Latino vote evaporating before his eyes. “We all know how important the Latino vote is,” Shurtleff said Friday. “This kind of thing does so much harm to the party.”
