Harry Pachon
Harry Pachon
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Look at the Chicago area. Cook County, Illinois, now has more Latinos than Arizona, New Mexico or Colorado.
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A lot of Latinos are first-generation new citizens, or second-generation children of immigrants, who don't have those deep roots of partisan attachment.
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For every 100 Latinos you see walking down the street today, 34 of those 100 are under the age of 18, so they're not qualified to vote. That leaves 66. Of those 66, in certain states, 33 aren't U.S. citizens yet, so that leaves 33 Latinos. Of those 33, something like 16 don't register to vote. That leaves 17. Of the 17 Latinos who are left, about 11 to 12 actually vote.
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That doesn't surprise me. These are businesses catering to the new ethnic enclaves.
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He voted his conscience, even when people made fun of him,
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He was a quiet ground-breaker, ... Many of his accomplishments go unrecognized because he did things in a quiet way.
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There is a lot of overacting on Spanish TV, too, ... Maybe that will make the transition easier.
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What the marches have done is give a human face to the immigration issue in the United States today.
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Simple demographics. There's going to be more than five and a half million Latino voters voting in November.
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Los Angeles is Los Angeles, and it's very easy for someone to come here not knowing English and be able to get a toehold on American society.
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Legal or illegal, advertisers still think they have to buy toothpaste in the morning,
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Politics, for most Americans, is not an everyday-life issue. It is not something that affects you personally. That is why these demonstrations are so interesting, because what it shows is that immigration is not an academic issue; it is a genuine issue on the Hispanic immigrant side. You are talking about your friends, relatives, neighbors.
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This is a symbolic closing of the gap that had developed for the last six years under the previous administration.
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an unprecedented outreach into the Mexican immigrant community.