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Thursday, September 25, 2008
Latino groups pledge to register 1 million new voters
Hispanic groups and Spanish-language media companies announced Thursday an effort to distribute 1 million voter registration cards in seven states with large Hispanic populations.
The groups launched a new website — www.YoVotare.org — which will serve “as a one-stop portal to connect Latinos with various unprecedented efforts to register new voters, provide voter information and education tools, and increase voter turnout in November,” the groups said, in a press release.
The groups involved in the effort include the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, the National Council of La Raza, the Univision television network, and many others.
Political analysts say that Latinos could be a crucial voting bloc in several contested states such as Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada and Florida.
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Tancredo: Bailout bill should not help illegal immigrants
Rep. Tom Tancredo, a Colorado Republican famous for his fight against illegal immigration, urged Congressional leaders this week to include safeguards in any financial bailout plan to ensure it does not help illegal immigrants.
He said the bill needs to include provisions to “verify the legal residency and identity of potential homebuyers to ensure that illegal aliens are not obtaining federally backed home loans - and that taxpayers are not absorbing the debts of illegal aliens, or bad loans made by banks to illegal aliens.”
“If such protections are not included in the package, I hope you will join me in opposing its passage,” he said, in a letter.
See the letter here.
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Mexican government sending teaching materials to the U.S.
For more than a decade, the Mexican government has been quietly providing money, materials and even teachers to American schools, colleges and nonprofit organizations, the AP reported this week.
The Mexican government spends more than $1 million on the programs targeted to Mexican immigrants in the United States. They “provide a lifeline for adult students with little formal education by helping them become literate in Spanish - and by extension, English,” the story says.
Read it here.
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Poll: McCain winning Florida Hispanics
According to a Miami Herald/St. Petersburg Times poll released this week, Republican John McCain is beating rival Barack Obama with Latinos in Florida.
The poll — which showed a tight race overall — showed that McCain is favored by Hispanics 51 to 41 percent. However, the poll’s margin of error is 10.6 percentage points.
Nationwide, Obama is handily beating McCain among Latinos, according to various polls. Florida is different, though, because many of its Cuban-American residents tend to be Republicans.
Roland Sanchez-Medina, vice president of the Cuban-American Bar Association, told the Miami Herald that “Obama’s current drag among Hispanics could hurt the Democratic Party’s chances of unseating three South Florida Cuban-American Republicans in Congress — Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Mario Diaz-Balart and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.”
Read the story here.
