To the extent that the immigration debate gets any coverage in the media these days, it seems to be about the way the proponents of human rights are shouting past the xenophobes and vice versa. Meanwhile, Europe and Japan both are giving serious consideration to what it will do for their economies as the number […]

I do not buy into the idea of Barack Obama’s election marking our country’s entrance into post-racial politics. But I am always heartened when related thresholds are crossed, whether it is an African-American to the presidency or an Indian-American to the short list of 2012 GOP nominees. I still think the best thing we can […]

I have long thought that generation is the key to understanding the political behavior of ethnic voters in the United States. Immigrants may identify strongly with one party over another (like Cubans with Republicans or Puerto Ricans with Democrats), but later generations all move to the mean. Cuban immigrants, for example, may be single issue […]

The Pew Hispanic Center has shown that naturalized Latinos are more likely to register and to vote than U.S.-born Latinos. Julia Preston of the New York Times reports that recent data suggests that there will be more newly naturalized Latino voters than ever before:
Immigration authorities are swamped in new bureaucratic backlogs resulting from an unanticipated […]

Republican Latina Leslie Sanchez opines in the Wall Street Journal (safely enough) that Univision doesn’t do right by the GOP:

Faced with an onslaught of biased reporting, Republicans are right to have reservations about Univision. They should, however, engage the network, as it is far too important to be ignored. Late last month, Nielsen began comparing […]

My good friend Martin Hamburger recently showed me some spots he did for the Horace Hagedorn Foundation. As a connoisseur of political spots who also happens to be the son of immigrants, I think both are great!

Much has been made in the national press of Governor Schwarzenegger’s “post-partisan” efforts to reach out to the Democrats who control the California Legislature and to the green lobby in DC, but less attention has been paid to the ire this is earning him with the very red Republicans who control the state party machinery. […]

Peter Applebome of the New York Times reports on the experience of a Latino immigrant on Long Island:

Like a stranger in a strange land, Carlos Morales, a 26-year-old day laborer who came to Long Island six years ago from Mexico, is a perceptive observer of the suburban terrain where he works, goes to school and […]

Public polls in Michigan suggest that Republican Mike Bouchard isn’t doing very well in his attempt to take out U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow. And yet the NRSC has decided to play the immigration card with this clumsy, racist website. As I’ve written before, a candidate can talk tough on immigration without kissing off the Latino […]

The AP is reporting that the DSCC has removed from its website an ad that featured an anti-immigration image much like the above one, taken from the website of Republican wingnut/congressional candidate Vernon Robinson.
As far as the Latino vote is concerned, Democrats’ one significant advantage over Republicans is the perception that Republicans are more discriminatory […]