Tag: Latinos

That Latino Vote

Listening to all the “reporting” on this election and of course we hear about the white vote, the black vote and the Latino vote….but is this a true analysis or is it just words to fill the report when there is a lack of substance?

I heard this morning that the Latino vote would help Biden……but is there truly a Latino vote?

With only 42 days left until the election, Joe Biden has his work cut out for him with Latino voters. That’s according to his senior adviser Symone Sanders, who has had to answer for why Biden appears to be losing ground among Latinos. According to a recent Latino Decisions/National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials poll, 65 percent of Latinos plan to vote for Biden or lean toward him, but this is still 14 percentage points lower than the 79 percent of Latino voters who said they supported Clinton in the pollster’s national election-eve poll in 2016.

It’s true that Latino voters do, as a whole, tend to be more Democratic than Republican, a trend that has only accelerated in recent years. But they don’t vote as a single bloc (in 2016, at least 1 in 5 Latino voters still backed Trump): How Latinos vote in Florida, for instance, can be very different from how Latinos in the Southwest or Northeast vote. These differences especially matter due to the size of the Latino population in a number of key swing states.

There’s No Such Thing As The ‘Latino Vote’

Polls are about as worthless as teets on a boar…..they are seldom correct for respondents seldom tell the true to the questioners.

Learn SAtuff!

VOTE!

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

But They Are Stealing Our Jobs!

How many times have you heard that tired old talking point?

If you truly believe that then …how many of you want to pick lettuce or harvest apples or…….well you get the point……back during Katrina my company hired 10 people for debris removal paying $10 an hour……at the end of a week we had 4 people left…all Hispanic…the Americans could lower themselves to pick up debris…….

But are they stealing jobs?

(Newser) – Odilia Chavez, a 40-year-old undocumented migrant farm worker based in California, is the first person to tell her story in a new Modern Farmer “Farm Confessional” feature, and she has a message for anyone who thinks people like her are stealing American jobs: “We’re not taking their jobs. In the 14 years I’ve been here, I’ve never seen an American working in the fields. I’ve never seen anyone work like Mexicans,” she writes. “Agriculture is dependent on undocumented workers. We need the money from the farmers, and the farmers need our hands.”

She tells her story and describes the low pay and difficult conditions that leave her exhausted by 9pm and awake again by 3am. Even so, she says, she would keep her job even if immigration reform passed. She’d be able to get a driver’s license and social security card and see her mom in Mexico for the first time since 2008, but in terms of a job, she and a lot of her fellow workers don’t know how to do anything else, don’t know how to use a computer, and never got far in school. “We can’t get a better job. They were farmworkers in Mexico and we’re going to die as farmworkers.” Her full column is worth a read.

As far as I have seen…they are not stealing jobs….but rather accepting jobs that Americans find demeaning and boring…….

Have yet to see an American in the crowd of day laborers at 5 am in the parking lot of a building supply company…….Americans want to be the CEO not the laborer…….

Is Immigration Reform A Wise Move?

The Obama Adimn has decide to tackle yet another controversial issue in its first 100 days, but is it a wise move?  He has the political capital and he already has much on his plate, but this move could be a bit premature.

Obama plans to speak publicly about the issue in May, administration officials said, and over the summer he will convene working groups, including lawmakers from both parties and a range of immigration groups, to begin discussing possible legislation for as early as this fall.

But with the economy seriously ailing, advocates on different sides of the debate said that immigration could become a polarizing issue for Mr. Obama in a year when he has many other major battles to fight.

Opponents, mainly Republicans, say they will seek to mobilize popular outrage against any effort to legalize unauthorized immigrant workers while so many Americans are out of jobs.

Administration officials said that Mr. Obama’s plan would not add new workers to the American work force, but that it would recognize millions of illegal immigrants who have already been working here. Despite the deep recession, there is no evidence of any wholesale exodus of illegal immigrant workers, independent studies of census data show.

The Obama administration favors legislation that would bring illegal immigrants into the legal system by recognizing that they violated the law, and imposing fines and other penalties to fit the offense. The legislation would seek to prevent future illegal immigration by strengthening border enforcement and cracking down on employers who hire illegal immigrants, while creating a national system for verifying the status of new employees.

In my opinion, this subject should be approached very carefully, this could become a hot button issue, the one that the Repubs have been waiting for.  I realize that the Hispanic community feels betrayed by the President for the lack of Latinos in his cabinet and he wants to try and settle them down before the next election cycle.  But this could be a shot in the foot.  The GOP is  RUDDERLESS….do not help them find their way.

Hispanics Gaining

Hispanics now account for more than half the U.S. population growth this decade, indicating a powerful new sign of their demographic clout, according to a Pew Hispanic Center report released Thursday.

The Hispanic population also expanded dramatically in the 1990s, but in that decade its growth accounted for less than 40 percent of the nation’s total population increase.

Hispanics now represent 50.5 percent of the U.S. population growth since 2000, although they were only 15 percent of the population in 2007.

The Pew report also highlights a significant new driver of the population increases for the nation’s largest minority: Unlike the 1990s when immigration was the major factor in Hispanic population growth, births in the U.S. are mostly responsible for the increases this decade.

Jeffery Passel, senior demographer at the Pew Hispanic Center, said Census data shows the Hispanic population has increased 10.2 million, from 35.3 million in 2000 to 45.5 million by July 2007.

A natural demographic increase — births minus deaths — is responsible for 6 million of the new Hispanic residents this decade. International migration — which among Hispanics has been calculated in the past to be two-thirds undocumented — accounts for 4.2 million of the increase, Passel said.

The Census Bureau’s figures do not distinguish whether immigrants are legal or illegal.

What Will Lou Dobbs Talk About?

With a stagnating economy and hundreds of miles of new fences along the Mexican border, the United States – and California – may have become a less inviting destination for illegal immigrants from Latin America.

Two key signals – an unprecedented slowdown in money sent by immigrants back to Mexico, and a new report that claims the nation’s illegal immigrant population has dropped significantly since last summer – indicate a possible change.

Still, the evidence is not strong in the Bay Area, where the economy is more robust than in the rest of the state, and where local immigrant groups said they see little or no local evidence of an exodus of undocumented residents.

In a study released Wednesday in Washington, D.C., the Center for Immigration Studies, a group that favors tighter curbs on immigration, said a weaker economy and aggressive immigration enforcement have prompted many immigrants to return home to Mexico and other countries.

“Illegals are responding to changing conditions in the United States and are going home in significant numbers,” said Steven Camarota, director of research for the center and co-author of the report, which was based on U.S. Census Bureau data.

Meanwhile, Mexico’s Central Bank reported Wednesday that the amount of money sent home by Mexican immigrants dropped by 2.2 percent in the first half of 2008 compared with the first six months of 2007, the first such decline in a decade.

CNN’s Lou Dobbs has got to be unhappy with this news.  And this is an interesting turn that has gotten very little press.  I guess news like this is not good for the chest thumpers.