Voto Latino was quoted in the Washington Post in an article titled, “Reports find technical divide among foreign and U.S.-born Latinos“:

Maria Teresa Kumar, executive director of Voto Latino, a civic participation organization, said communication technology would be more likely to be passed from younger Latinos to their parents’ generation than vice versa.

“The young people have a unique level of influence in their family — they tell them what refrigerator to buy, what car to buy,” she said, adding that that also applies to digital communication technology.

US District Court decision to enjoin Arizona Immigration Law

Voto Latino was quoted in Time Magazine‘s article titled, “Will Obama’s Immigration Focus Hurt Democrats?“. The article argues,

Since the loss of the South, Democrats have increasingly been courting the western states as a new     base of voters. They’ve succeeded in turning New Mexico, Colorado and Nevada — all of which Obama won in 2008 — into bona fide swing states in recent years, mostly on the back of the Latino vote.

“What’s happening in Arizona is ground zero. The Latino community feels that they’re under assault as a result,” says Maria Teresa Kumar, president of Voto Latino, a group that works to register Latino voters. “What are those implications come midterm elections? It is going to rally the vote at the midterms and in the years to come.” Democrats just have to hope that the rallying effect is louder than the cries of white swing voters out west who are getting tired of hearing about immigration.”

Read the whole article here: http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,2003675,00.html?xid=rss-topstories#ixzz0tgXzO6mF

Here is a copy of the official complaint/lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice: United States v. Arizona

U.S. v. A.Z. Brief

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