Puerto Rico: On the Road to Becoming the 51st State
Although citizens of Puerto Rico could not vote in Tuesday’s U.S. presidential election, many did turn out to vote for an important referendum that posed the question regarding the current […]
Tag Archives: Politics
Venezuelans in South Florida
Earlier in October, comments about Chavez’s re-election in Venezuela flooded my Twitter and Facebook timeline. Friends living in Miami mentioned how their abuelitas, parents, and cousins were crying and upset […]
Joe Arpaio: The Illegal-Immigration Enforcement Movement’s Poster Child
Over the past decade, Maricopa County Sheriff, Joe Arpaio has played a central role in the movement towards enforcing laws regarding illegal immigration. He has spent 20 years in office […]
Marco Rubio
Aren’t all Hispanics Democrats? Nope. Not in this case. However, most Hispanic voters tend to vote Democratic. Knowing this, Republican candidates must manipulate their political ideologies so they appeal to […]
Mitt Romney Changes His Mind
Throughout his Presidential campaign, Mitt Romney has expressed his disapproval of undocumented immigrants living in the U.S.A. However, he has talked about policies for immigrants that would include granting […]
Dear Arizona, What happened to you?
In the past few years, the Arizona government has instituted a variety of policy changes surrounding immigration, many of which led to heated debates by national media figures, political activists, […]
Governor Brown: Put an end to “In”- Secure Communities, and sign the Trust Act!
This weekend, Governor Jerry Brown, of the state of California, must make his decision regarding the Trust Act. The Trust Act “would require local police departments to release people who have […]
Arizona Republicans Make a Strategic Change on Immigration Policies
Last Wednesday United States District Court Judge Susan Bolton ruled in favor of a law requiring officials to check the papers of anyone suspected of being illegal. However, in an […]
Will He Be The First Hispanic President of the United States of America?
In 2008 Barack Obama became the first African-American president of the United States of America. This begs the question, Can we expect more diversity filling the White House in the […]
Julián Castro Democratic National Convention Speech
At the 2012 The Democratic National Convention the Mayor of San Antonio, Texas, Julián Castro, delivered a keynote address to the democratic delegates documenting his own family’s migration journey from Mexico […]
Immigration Talk 