Morning NewsTaco
Thursday September 27, 2012
Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio Loses Immigration Law Appeal (Fox News Latino): A federal appeals court on Tuesday denied an Arizona sheriff’s request to reverse a lower-court decision barring his deputies from detaining people solely on the suspicion that they’re undocumented immigrants.
Pennsylvania Voter ID Law May Be At Least Partially Blocked, Judge Signals (Reuters/Huffington Post): A Pennsylvania judge on Tuesday signaled he may block at least part of the state’s controversial voter identification law as he weighs a closely watched case that could influence Election Day turnout in the battleground state.
A Texas Congressional Debate in Espanol (Fox News Latino): It was typical in many ways – a debate to help Texan voters decide who would represent the 23rd district in the U.S. Congress. But the twist in this election-season ritual was that it happened in espanol. Rep. Francisco Canseco, the Republican incumbent, and his challenger, Democrat Pete Gallego, a state representative, debated in the hour long event, which was sponsored by AARP Texas and Univision.
Report Shows Hispanic Workers Hit by Wage Theft in North Carolina (Latin American Tribune): Wage theft is becoming an “epidemic” in North Carolina, according to a study released Tuesday by the NC Justice Center’s Workers’ Rights Project and the University of North Carolina Immigration/Human Rights Clinic.
Has the Kennedy Center Ignored Latinos? (Huffington Post): Over the weekend The Los Angeles Times ran a story generated by two Latino organizations, the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts and the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda. The two want to create public awareness that the Kennedy Center Honors Awards largely exclude Latinos.
Latino orgs demand Kaiser apology (Politico): A coalition of 30 national Latino organizations is calling on Kennedy Center President Michael Kaiser to apologize for cursing at Felix Sanchez, the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts chairman, after the nonprofit criticized the Kennedy Center Honors for not recognizing more Latinos.
Report says 10 million Latino voters could be disenfranchised, but does the math add up? (Houston Chronicle): That’s a lot of votes, especially when considering that the number of eligible Hispanic voters in the U.S. is 21.3 million and the margin of victory in 2008 presidential election was little under seven million votes. So how did the authors of the report come up with the 10 million voters number?
Impact Of Voter ID Laws On Latino Voter Turnout May Be Overblown (Huffington Post): The notion that 10 million Hispanics can be deterred from voting in November because of voter laws that are suppressive is a bit of an exaggeration, Latino experts assert.
A Latino Governor For Texas? (Fox News Latino): San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro is a rising star in the Democratic Party, highlighted by a keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention in August. On Monday, Castro and Newark Mayor Cory Booker sat next to each other at a New York event. That’s when Booker — who is active on social media — tweeted that he believes Castro could become the first Latino governor of Texas.
Mitt Romney’s immigration incoherence (Washington Post): IF ONLY HE were Hispanic, Mitt Romney mused in his secretly recorded comments unearthed by Mother Jones magazine, his electoral prospects would be so much brighter. “I say that jokingly,” said the Republican presidential nominee, who plainly wasn’t joking at all, “but it would be helpful to be Latino.”
The U.S. Needs More Immigrants to Grow the Economy and Create Jobs (Huffington Post): Data show that immigrants are highly entrepreneurial, putting their skills to good use creating new jobs in the U.S. economy. A June 2012 study published by the Fiscal Policy Institute reports that 18% of all small business owners in the U.S. are immigrants.
De la Isla: Warning: hate speech is dangerous to your health (The Republic): At a luncheon of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, the coalition’s president, Alex Nogales, released three academic reports expounding on “the power of media to breed hate, impact health and shape opinions.” The institute advocates accuracy and fairness in media, and its report reveals how media hugely influence opinions about Latinos.
