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Immigration and the Hispanic Vote

In a  recent PODER magazine article David Adams, Tim Pratt, and Carlos de Corboda discussed the effects President Obama’s domestic policy is expected to have on the Latino community’s voter turnout.

Analysts believe the fact that the Obama administration has yet to address immigration reform despite promises to do so Read more »

Fewer Americans think Obama has advanced race relations, poll shows

Soaring expectations about the effect of the first black president on U.S. race relations have collided with a more mundane reality, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

NYTimes documenting the decade

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The New York Times created a great feature of user-generated photos documenting the decade pertaining to everything from President Obama’s Inauguration to immigration.

Check it out here.

Immigration overhaul bill introduced in the House

Democratic congressional lawmakers introduced a comprehensive bill Tuesday that, among other provisions, would offer a path to legalization for the country’s estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants. The piece of legislation was met with criticism from both conservatives and liberals.

Please read more at: The Los Angeles Times and The Feet in Two Worlds

WH gate-crashers went without confirmed invitation

Uninvited Guests

WASHINGTON – Copies of e-mails between the White House party crashers and a Pentagon official undermine their claims that they were invited to President Barack Obama‘s first state dinner.

Tareq and Michaele Salahi pressed the friendly Pentagon aide for four days to score tickets to the big event. By their own admission in the e-mails, they showed up at the White House gates at 6:30 p.m. on Nov. 24 without an invitation — “to just check in, in case it got approved since we didn’t know, and our name was indeed on the list!”

But the Secret Service has said they weren’t on that list and that it erred by letting them in anyway.

Read more at Yahoo! News.

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