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(Snip) The Latino vote in Florida upended the Clinton campaign’s strategy, and what we thought we knew about where politics is headed. Chalk it up to a kind of cynical Latina wariness, but I never felt convinced that Hillary Clinton would win the general election. Yet as reports poured in about the historic number of Latinos lining up to vote early in Miami, I felt 100 percent certain that the state would remain blue. After all, Cuban-American members of Congress like Carlos Curbelo and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen had refused to endorse Trump. In October, following the “Access Hollywood” scandal, Ros-Lehtinen called...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- No sooner had the video gone up of popular Hispanic actor Eduardo Verástegui denouncing presidential candidate Barack Obama on abortion than YouTube officials took it down. The video sharing site removed the full version of the video, which showed graphic images of abortions.It did, however, leave an edited version in place that contains the Bella actor urging Latinos to vote against Obama without the footage of babies who have died from abortions.The Verástegui video has already caught fire across the Internet with more than 8,000 people viewing it in only two days.It features the former...

A federal lawsuit filed yesterday charges that agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement unlawfully force their way into the homes of Hispanic families in the New York area without court warrants or other legal justification, sometimes pushing down doors in the middle of the night, in search of people who do not live there. The lawsuit, filed in the United States District Court in Manhattan as a class action, accuses the immigration agency of conducting the raids in violation of the Fourth Amendment’s protection from unreasonable searches, harming citizens and legal residents of the United States as well as foreigners...

The face of New York City and its suburbs has changed profoundly since the start of the 21st century. According to census figures released yesterday, Manhattan was the only county in the city and nearby suburbs to register a significant increase of non-Hispanic white residents from April 1, 2000, to July 1, 2005. But the influx of young people priced out of Manhattan also helped produce a gain of whites in Brooklyn in the same period — a tiny number, yet apparently the first such mid-decade increase in years. Between 2000 and 2005, the number of white residents dropped by...

Hispanic American Coalition, You Don't Speak for Me!, Joins With House Leaders to React to President Bush's Address and to Oppose Senate Amnesty Plan WASHINGTON, May 17 /PRNewswire/ -- You Don't Speak for Me!, a new national coalition of American Hispanics that supports immigration enforcement, is joining with nine members of the House of Representatives to respond to President Bush's Monday evening address to the nation and to urge the Senate to pass an immigration enforcement only bill. Members of the You Don't Speak for Me! coalition will be renewing their call for swift Senate action on an enforcement only...

Hispanic American Coalition Tells Frist No to Amnesty (CNSNews.com) - A coalition of Hispanic Americans is teaming up with U.S. House leaders in sending a letter to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) to express their opposition to legislation that would grant amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants. The coalition, called You Don't Speak for Me!, was formed after the recent demonstrations by illegal aliens and their supporters who want the government to grant them amnesty. "When it comes to immigration policy, the United States Senate apparently doesn't speak for anyone, except the people who have broken our laws and...

MEXICO CITY – Acapulco authorities discovered the decapitated bodies of two police officers Thursday along with a chilling message from suspected drug traffickers operating in the resort: "So that you learn some respect." "One of them was a police commander and the other an officer," a city spokesman said. The spokesman said he could not confirm media reports that the two slain officers had participated in a shootout in January in which four suspected drug traffickers were killed. The two officers' bodies found Thursday were dumped near the site of that shootout. The handwritten sign demanding respect was taped to...

LIBERAL, Kan. — The pro-immigration rally here two weeks ago was not the largest or most sophisticated, considering the tens of thousands of people who marched in places like Washington, Los Angeles and New York. It came together in just a few days, spread by word of mouth and a hastily written flier posted in stores. People picnicked or milled about as children played and vendors sold ice cream. They chanted "Sí, se puede" — yes, we can — but did not venture many more slogans than that. But the turnout of 800 or so in this windswept prairie town...

Marcial Rodriguez, a U.S. Marine who grew up in a Mexican farming village, is offended that the country he went to war for might deport his relatives who are living here illegally. Three months after the lance corporal returned to Ohio from the fighting in Iraq, the U.S. House adopted a bill that would make Rodriguez's cousin a felon for being one of the nation's 11 million illegal immigrants. Rodriguez, 20, said he enlisted in the Marine reserves to repay the debt he felt owed to a country that had given him an education and a home for his family....

There are hornets in the siding of my home. Every time I smoke them out, they set up shop elsewhere. But today’s tale is about the ones inside. A few get in through the bathroom vent. They wear themselves out against the plate glass window, trying to escape. Eventually, they fall to the floor and die. I realized this week that there is a lot in common between those dying hornets and civilization in the United States. The dying hornets first lose their ability to fly, and then their ability to walk. But driven by ancient memories, they try to...

<p>Now Moreno is part of the growing movement to stem the flow of illegal immigration.</p>

Lupe Moreno knows the immigrant struggle. She has lived all her life in Santa Ana, a gateway community for Mexican immigrants. Her father helped smuggle them into the country; her former husband sneaked in illegally. Now Moreno is part of the growing movement to stem the flow of illegal immigration. "I want people to know that there are Latinos who are law-abiding," she said. "We need to protect our borders." Although polls suggest that the majority of Latinos are sympathetic to illegal immigrants once they have settled in the United States, opinions vary by generation, home country, economic class and...

    Novello Possible Foe For Clinton May 2, 2005 Copyright © 2005 Capital Newspapers Division of The Hearst Corporation, Albany, N.Y. All rights reserved. To the short list of possible GOP contenders to take on U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., next fall, add the name of state Health Commissioner Antonia Novello. There have been a few whispers in certain top Republican circles that Novello, 60, is considering a statewide run post-Pataki administration, and perhaps might even challenge Clinton. State Republican Party officials say she hasn't contacted them, however, and through a spokesperson at the Health Department the commissioner declined...

White House counsel Alberto Gonzales survived a Democratic wall of opposition on Thursday to win U.S. Senate confirmation as the nation's next attorney general. He will be the first Hispanic-American to hold the post. In approving Gonzales, the Republican-led Senate rejected Democratic complaints he had helped craft administration policies that contributed to the torture of foreign detainees following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.

THE ELECTORATE DENVER, Nov. 8 - The Spanish-language television advertisements for President Bush went negative this fall, attacking Senator John Kerry's voting record and his stance on abortion. Mr. Kerry's Spanish television advertisements, in keeping with the traditional appeals that Democrats have made to Hispanic voters for generations, mostly stayed positive, rarely even mentioning Mr. Bush's name. But in the end, Mr. Bush won 44 percent of the Hispanic vote, more than any Republican presidential candidate in at least three decades. That tally, more than 10 percentage points higher than he received in 2000, shattered the Democrats' hopes that a...

MIAMI (BP)--The Democratic League of Miami-Dade County has announced it does not endorse John Kerry for president, mainly because he is part of the current party leadership that has rejected the moral values and ethical principles of the vast majority of Democrats across the country, according to league chairman Eladio Jose Armesto. With more than 1,000 members and a reach that expands to 100,000 pro-life, pro-family Democrats in Miami, the Democratic League was chartered by the Miami-Dade Democratic Party in 1989 and is primarily led by Hispanic-American Democrats. The league released a statement Oct. 27, saying the Democratic presidential candidate...

PLAINFIELD, N.J., Oct. 18 - Oscar Romero-Figueroa's right arm now hangs limp with paralysis - a constant reminder of the attackers who beat him with a baseball bat in June, a few feet from the apartment he shares with six relatives in North Plainfield. Victor DeLeon suffered head wounds and a broken arm, which kept him out of work for a month, after he was beaten that same month in neighboring Plainfield while walking home from a local bar. And Samuel Aguillar Jimenez was killed. His body was discovered in a Plainfield cemetery on May 17 with a fatal gash...

Univision Assailed for 'Homosexual Cure' Show April 7, 2004 Gfn.com News A Spanish language family talk show, Casos de Familia, has been assailed for a program that featured so-called "reparative therapy," which told viewers homosexuality could be "cured" with religion. During a March 25 program, hostess Judith Grace also suggested that gay people are homosexual because they were abused or raped as children, reports the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. "Would it be that all [homosexuals] have been abused, hence their sexual preference?" asked Grace during the March telecast. She then followed up the question by issuing the...

<p>The chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus loses. That's bad news for liberal Democrats.</p> <p>Hispanics are now America's largest minority group, but Al Sharpton's news clippings alone prove how much more attention is paid to black politics over Hispanic.</p> <p>That's one reason the defeat of Rep. Ciro Rodriguez, chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, in a Democratic primary in Texas hasn't gotten more coverage. Another reason is that Henry Cuellar, the winner by 203 votes in a bitterly contested recount last week, is the kind of Hispanic politician liberal reporters can't always understand: a thoughtful moderate who believes in working across party lines and who actually endorsed George W. Bush for president in 2000.</p>

Goya Foods President Is Ousted; Son Also Removed in Family Coup Hugh R. Morley The head of Goya Foods, one of the nation's most widely recognized and successful Hispanic-owned companies, has been ousted as its president after 27 years by his two nephews, his son said Wednesday. Joseph Unanue, 78, was removed without warning as chairman of the Secaucus-based, privately held company's three-member board in a sudden vote Feb. 3, said his son, Andy Unanue. The remaining two board members - Joseph's nephews, Robert I. Unanue and Francisco R. Unanue - then forced him to resign as president and...