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Study: Hispanic voters to increase by 23 percent in 2008
About 9.3 million Latino voters will go to the polls in 2008, an increase of 23 percent compared to 2004, according to a new study by the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute at the University of Southern California.
“As the U.S. Latino population surges, we are seeing increases in registration and voter turnout due to increased naturalization numbers by Latino immigrants beginning in the 1990s and Latino youth coming of voting age,” said Harry Pachon, president of the institute.
Political experts say that Hispanic voters could make a difference in potential battleground states, including Florida, Colorado, Nevada, and New Mexico.
Analysts also say that an increase in Hispanic voters would most likely benefit Democrats because Hispanics generally favor that party 2-to-1 over Republicans. In addition, a recent study by the Pew Hispanic Center showed that Republicans have lost support among Hispanics over the past year.
To read the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute report, click here.
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By Joel E
December 21, 2007 2:30 AM | Link to this
The Mexican Mafia has supplied hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of fake documents to the illegal aliens. There can be no doubt they will vote in this election and those numbers are not overwhelming, but if the classical vote comes forth with the majority of Americans saying so what, that illegal alien voting base, inside the ‘Hispanic’ vote, will have a significant victory.
By George
December 22, 2007 4:12 PM | Link to this
Yup. They keep having babies who are automatically citizens on birth. They will soon out number us by millions. They will then have complete control of our country. We will be another Mexico. Every “child” of an illegal should have the same status. ILLEGAL.
They are being raised to be loyal to the “Mexican” country and flag. Not to ours. So they should not be allowed to be citizens just because of where they were born.
By guadalupe
December 25, 2007 2:29 AM | Link to this
I hope the bloggers above are not USC students. Sound more like some ignorant, evangalical christian college. Mexican Americans died for this country in wars like ww2, korea, vietnam, iraq 1 and iraq 2. We dont mind the slaps to our faces, will take them much like the irish americans and italian and african americans did. We love this country more than any other ethnicity. We have history here.
By jo
December 28, 2007 12:16 PM | Link to this
I say let the americans of mexican descent vote if they are legal citizens.. If they are not legal, they should not have any say in how our country is run.. I do not believe illegal babies should be automatic citizens..one of the top stories this week was about a boy who was kidnapped because his ILLEGAL mother could not pay for having her ILLEGAL daughter brought into our country.. the authorities KNOW where she is and yet they are doing nothing to either send them back or arrange for them to study to become legal..why have a border at all if laws are not upheld??
By L1M89
January 1, 2008 7:46 AM | Link to this
Calif. School Targets Mexican Students - Link - http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8TSKC1G0&show_article=1
[“CALEXICO, Calif. (AP) - Children are more likely to shield their faces than to smile when Daniel Santillan points his camera. Santillan’s photos aren’t for any picture album or yearbook-they help prove that Mexican youngsters are illegally attending public schools in this California border community. With too many students and too few classrooms, Calexico school officials took the unusual step of hiring someone to photograph children and document the offenders. Santillan snaps pictures at the city’s downtown border crossing and shares the images with school principals, who use them as evidence to kick out those living in Mexico. Since he started the job two years ago, the number of students in the Calexico school system has fallen 5 percent, from 9,600 to 9,100, while the city’s population grew about 3 percent. “The community asked us to do this, and we responded,” school board President Enrique Alvarado said. “Once it starts to affect you personally, when your daughter gets bumped to another school, then our residents start complaining.” Every day along the 1,952-mile border, children from Mexico cross into the United States and attend public schools. No one keeps statistics on how many. Citizenship isn’t the issue for school officials; district residency is.”]
By L1M89
January 1, 2008 8:01 AM | Link to this
Arizona firms brace for immigration sanctions law - Link - http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN2946397520071231?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews&rpc=22&sp=true
[“PHOENIX (Reuters) - Arizona steel fabricator Sheridan Bailey has been laying off employees in recent weeks even though he has plenty of orders on the books. His firm, Ironco Enterprises, shed around 10 percent of its 100-strong workforce to get in line with a state law going into effect on Tuesday that targets employers who hire illegal immigrants. “We have let some people go who we came to know were not properly documented. So in that respect the law is already doing what the framers expected,” he said. The maker of steel frames for buildings is among an estimated 150,000 businesses across the desert state preparing for the measure that places Arizona at the vanguard of more than 100 U.S. states and municipalities taking on immigration enforcement.”]