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Arizona dreamers ask GOP candidates to drop tough immigration rhetoric

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After picketing several campaign events over the past few weeks, a group of DREAM Act activists in Arizona will deliver thousands of signatures to Republican presidential candidates asking them to reconsider their stance on immigration. (Arizona Dream Act Coalition)

By JUAN GASTELUM
Channel: Immigration

Ahead of the Arizona primary on Tuesday, undocumented youth in the state will deliver almost 8,000 signatures to Republican presidential candidates asking them to change their rhetoric on immigration.

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Opinion: Of kitchens and migrants

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Much of the United States’ restaurant workforce is composed of Latinos, many of them migrants. (Photo: Flickr)

By LEON KRAUZE
Channel: Immigration, Culture

For a while now, I have been doing an entirely informal journalistic exercise. I have asked the managers of every American restaurant I have visited in the last few years to let me take a look around their kitchens. Given the generous nature of culinary culture, they almost always indulge my curiosity. I always explain my request by confessing that I would also like to have a little place of my own one day, maybe a tiny, five-table bistro, when journalism has run its course. But my true motives lie elsewhere. What I have really tried to do is figure out how many Latino cooks work in those restaurants on a daily basis.

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Analysis: Deconstructing Romney’s Florida Latino sweep

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Mitt handily took the Florida primary tonight. (Flickr:Dave Delay)

By JORDAN FABIAN
Channel: Politics

TAMPA, Fla. — The Florida GOP presidential primary officially kicked off the battle for the Latino vote in 2012 and Mitt Romney performed extremely well in his first audition in front of Latino voters.



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As far as I am aware, the Latino community in Florida is pretty much an outlier as far as elections go. It’s interesting and a bit surprising to see Latinos swinging Republican, but I think, as a whole, they’ll be staying with the Dems this go-around.

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Jeb Bush: GOP must reverse “disturbing” decline with Latinos

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By  JORDAN FABIAN
Channel: Politics

MIAMI — Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) said Thursday that his party must turn around its “disturbing” loss of Latino support in 2012 if it wants to win back the White House.

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“We’re not at that point with Hispanic voters in the United States at all as it relates to conservatives,” he added. “But we’ve seen a diminishing of votes at a time when — as our demography changes, Republicans need to be much more focused on them.”

Maybe the GOP should top being so overtly racist. Just a suggestion. 

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Univision/ABC poll: Obama leads by wide margins among Latinos, but Fla. in play for GOP

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Romney is winning Florida Latino Republicans ahead of the state’s Jan. 31 primary. (Flickr: whiteafrican)

By MATTHEW JAFFE and JORDAN FABIAN
Channel: Politics,  Economics, Immigration

Only nine months from Election Day, Latino voters -– the nation’s fastest-growing voting bloc -– favor President Obama over all the Republican candidates by a wide margin, according to a new poll conducted by Latino Decisions for Univision News and ABC News, a welcome boost for a White House facing a difficult reelection fight.

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The roots of Bain Capital in El Salvador’s civil war

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Romney tapped El Salvador’s wealthy families, including one linked to right-wing death squads

Back in 1984, wealthy Salvadoran families were looking for safe investments as violence and upheaval engulfed the country. The war, which pitted leftist guerrillas against a right-wing government backed by the Reagan administration, ultimately left over 70,000 people dead in the tiny nation before a peace deal was brokered by the United Nations in 1992. The vast majority of violence, a UN truth commission later found, was committed by rightist death squads and the military, which received U.S. training and $6 billion in military and economic aid. The Reagan administration feared that El Salvador could become a foothold for Communists in Central America.

The notorious death squads were financed by members of the Salvadoran oligarchy and had close links to the country’s military. The death squads kidnapped, tortured, and killed suspected leftists in urban areas fueling an insurgency that retreated to rural areas and waged war on the government from the countryside. The war, which lasted 12 years, triggered an exodus that brought more than 1 million Salvadorans to the United States.

There is no evidence that any of Bain Capital’s original investors were involved in these sorts of activities. But the identities of some of the investors remain secret, and there are family names that raise questions.

Four members of the de Sola family were among the original Bain investors, or “limited partners” in the company, the Globe reported. Their relative and “one-time business partner,” Orlando de Sola, was an important figure in El Salvador.
A well-known right-wing coffee grower with an (in his words) “authoritarian” vision for the country, de Sola spent time living in Miami but was also a founding member of the right-wing Arena party, lead by a U.S.-trained former intelligence officer named Roberto D’Aubuisson.

The lives, blood and grief of my people line the pockets of a pig

(Source: cosmopolitan-fascist)
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thenewrepublic: Mitt Romney’s new Spanish-language ad is replete with feel-good stock footage and is devoid of any mention of histance on immigration. “Representative Mario Diaz-Balart, a Florida Republican, looks into the camera and says: ‘Romney cree en nosotros’ (Romney believes in us). When the whole thing is over, the viewer is supposed to feel warm and fuzzy about Mitt—but instead, I was left asking: What about immigration?” - Nathan Pippenger, “Why Romney’s First Spanish-Language Ad Won’t Make a Difference” Is Romney really so deluded as to believe he can get the support of Hispanic voters by using the term “illegals” in debates and vowing to veto the DREAM Act? lol good luck motherfuckerWe’re not as stupid as you think we are 

thenewrepublic:

Mitt Romney’s new Spanish-language ad is replete with feel-good stock footage and is devoid of any mention of histance on immigration.

“Representative Mario Diaz-Balart, a Florida Republican, looks into the camera and says: ‘Romney cree en nosotros’ (Romney believes in us). When the whole thing is over, the viewer is supposed to feel warm and fuzzy about Mitt—but instead, I was left asking: What about immigration?”

- Nathan Pippenger, “Why Romney’s First Spanish-Language Ad Won’t Make a Difference”

Is Romney really so deluded as to believe he can get the support of Hispanic voters by using the term “illegals” in debates and vowing to veto the DREAM Act?

lol good luck motherfucker
We’re not as stupid as you think we are 

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cognitivedissonance: I love this so hard.

cognitivedissonance:

I love this so hard.

(via ladyatheist)

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