In other expected news: Hispanic media doesn’t like broken promises

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Today, Politico’s front page features a story that many who have been closely following the immigration debate won’t find surprising. The title reads: “Hispanic Media Turn on President Obama” and cites Univision’s Jorge Ramos, “the Walter Cronkite of Spanish-language media” as a key figure in the current attitude towards the administration.

The shift in tone among Hispanic opinion makers is helping solidify a narrative about Obama among Latino voters. They held great hopes for the president — given his promise in a May 2008 interview with Ramos to draft an immigration reform bill during his first year in office — but he has deeply disappointed them so far.

“Latinos voted overwhelmingly for President Obama, and they expected him to keep his promise and he broke his promise,” said Ramos (via Politico)

Obama’s promise to introduce comprehensive immigration reform during his first year in power (aka “La Promesa”) was clearly broken. Immigration reform advocates have increasingly cited this broken promise as a reason for anger and frustration with the administration. This is nothing new.

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However, during an election year, it would benefit any candidate that is either up for reelection or looking to gain a seat to pay attention to this broken promise.

Ahem…

The swing in opinion couldn’t come at a worse time for Democrats, who need a strong Latino turnout in November if they hope to maintain control of Congress. That voting bloc could be decisive in dozens of competitive House, Senate and gubernatorial races across the West, according to a report by America’s Voice, an immigration reform advocacy group. (via Politico)

The same goes for the GOP – are you listening 14th amendment crusaders against Latino babies?

This week alone we have seen $600 million more to militarize the border (including money for unmanned predator drones), an expansion of the (in)Secure Communities program that has been deporting record numbers of non-criminals and the debate about denying citizenship to newborn babies born to immigrant parents continues to build steam.

Why wouldn’t Spanish-language media be turning on the administration?

Considering that immigration is now a top issue for most Latino voters, you would think that if legislators won’t work towards reform simply because it’s the right thing to do, they would at least recognize it’s the politically expedient thing to do.

For starters, the DREAM act might be nice, no?

Categories: comprehensive immigration reform, DREAM

Tags: immigration reform, jorge ramos, obama and immigration, spanish language media

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We,need to give opportunity to the talented people who lives in the shadows,
because of lack of legal documents,but they are more productive than people who has everything, to produce a change in our country and they don’t do anything.

Let,this people to contribute to our society the way they are capable.”An Comprehensive Immigration Reform” Is what our Country needs.

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Anon1720

Peter, I agree with the part about immigrants being not just hispanic.

However we are about making legal immigration easier to this country (more visas, easier sponsorships and less beaurocratic bullshit), giving papers to undocumented immigrants who are willing to register and pay fines. Reform does not equal another reform, we want to keep the 14th amendment the way it is with children born here not being denied residency in the only country they know (and ever lived in). Because the situation of DREAM act eligible youth is retarded, however being denied papers in country of your birth? That is a total paranoia.
Jean

I don’t understand why these undocumented illegals had the nerve to march the streets and demand reform, they are not supposed to be here in the first place. Before them,.the Government should fix the Visa backlog, this will re-enforce family reunification, better for the community, better for the economy and better for the Government. The rest, go back to the end of the line and wait and for those border hoppers,.go back to your country!
Doug

An increasing number of babies are born not by people in the country illegally but by those paying for “Birth Tours”, which charges families to bring them to the USA for 2 months and have their babies and then return home.

and they come from all over the world. Couples from Turkey pay $17-25,000 each

I don’t think anyone can argue that this is not the intent of the 14th amendment… and the law should be changed to stop others from profiting from the plight of others.

Republicans are not talking about people who have come into the USA illegally to work, what they are referring to are people either paying someone or on their own, crossing the USA borders and returning to their home country after the child is born.

“dropping babies”
Oscar

@peter- Hispanics are the largest or soon to be largest minority so naturally our voices would be the loudest.

Why do you have to reform the 14th amendment for immigration? The process would take longer than it would if we were to create a comprehensive immigration bill from scratch so why do that?

Do you know see the whole reforming the 14th amendment is a ploy for the Republicans to stir up drama and political points for the coming elections.

Open your eyes my friend….immigration reform is what we need.
Peter

Why do Hispanics think that immigration reform is only about them, and why don’t non-Hispanic illegal immigrants complain about Obama?

To correct the article, reforming the 14th Amendment will affect the children of illegal immigrants of every ethnicity, not just Latinos.

Border Patrol is not a part of the Department of Defense, which means funding it with more money is not militarizing it.

No one is arguing that children born to legal immigrants should be denied citizenship.

Why is this organization against reforming the immigration-related aspect of the 14th Amendment? I thought you guys wanted reform.
Unknown

Agreed. But we didn’t work hard and turned out to vote for the DREAM act. The minimal ask is CIR. Even if a dream bill passes it will not be enough to save anybody.

Frankly I am very dissapointed by national advocates to push for dream is also like obamas broken promise because all the attention being shifted to Dream the congress interprets as a waiving flag of surrender, of willing to compromise and cater to the will of the Congress. I mean how has much of the work stopped since May. The momentum for this work has almost stopped since May 1st.

The lesson learned is that this national campaign has always catered and surrendered to the Congress namely the Dems, the Dreamers, Arizona, and everyone else. No wonder almost nothing is happening on CIR. I don’t believe that we have set us up to win CIR. I don’t think that we are doing everything we can to win CIR. Do you? If not how do we position ourselves and start taking charge of OUR campaign that focuses on ONE thing Not 10. We’ve always known that were always going to get less than what we want. So let’s stop asking for small things like Dream because were going to get dream legislation with nothing but nightmare legislation. Let’s ask for an ideal CIR and Really shove it down their throats. We need to be the leaders of this movement and stop listening to the little voices that want to break us down and start FOCUSING and start thinking like we can win. So what’s our focus and what’s it going to take to win?

In other expected news: Hispanic media doesn’t like broken promises

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