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A Responsible Immigration Policy
Few issues facing the 110th Congress have the support that comprehensive immigration reform has. Not only does the majority of the Legislative branch support it, but President Bush is one of its strongest advocates. The harsh rhetoric of the 109th Congress (which produced only a plan to build a fence) is gone, yet embracing its departure is not enough. A new day has dawned, and comprehensive immigration reform now faces an important stage.
The President said so in his latest State of the Union: "We need to resolve the status of the illegal immigrants who are already in our country without animosity and without amnesty…Let us have a serious, civil, and conclusive debate, so that you can pass, and I can sign, comprehensive immigration reform into law." NDN will work to pass comprehensive immigration reform, and will continue to provide commentary on the immigration debate on its blog (clicking here will take you to the immigration posts).
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May 30, 2008The emergence of a new, highly energized and pro-Democratic Hispanic electorate could have an enormous impact on the 2008 election. While Hispanics, in general, trended Republican in the 2004 presidentail election, the demonization of immigrants during the debate over immigration legislation starting in 2005 has driven many Hispanics to the Democrats. As you will learn from our new report, Hispanics Rising II: An Overview of the Growing Power of America's Hispanic Community, Hispanics continue to grow as a percentage of the U.S. population; Hispanics continue to trend Democratic; Hispanics continue to vote in higher numbers; and Hispanics continue to locate in key battleground states. This overview -- which built on our 2007 report -- will be updated as fresh data comes in.
February 14, 2008In a new initial study of how the Hispanic vote has performed in the 2008 Presidential Primary elections, we have found that of those Hispanics who have voted this year, 75%, 3 out of 4, have voted Democratic. Also, we found that the Hispanic share of the overall Democratic primary electorate has increased by almost 50 percent since the 2004 Democratic primaries.
January 30, 2008As we lead up to Super Duper Tuesday on February 5th, one thing is clear: 2008 is the year Hispanics officially became a potent force in American politics.
January 4, 2008For the past several years NDN has been making an argument that for progressives to succeed in the coming century they would have to build a new majority coalition very different from the one FDR built in the 20th century. With the fall of the Southern strategy and the opening of the Southwest, this coalition represents a new politics and new demographics.
December 11, 2007Democrats should view the ongoing GOP obsession with immigration as a powerful sign of the collapse of the modern Republican Party. They should also recognize the opportunity to capitalize off of this by embracing immigration reform.
December 6, 2007Two recent polls on Hispanics and immigration reinforce the argument NDN and others have been making about public opinion.
December 4, 2007There are those who argue that the immigration debate is the most important debate in American politics today. If that is the case, why is Tom Tancredo at 1 percent in the GOP primary fight?
November 15, 2007In advance of this evening's debate, we take a closer look at the Southwest and its emergence as a main factor in deciding the next President.
November 9, 2007Just three days after their second consecutive election where a massive investment in demonizing immigrants did not pay off for the Republican Party, the leading GOP Presidential candidates have agreed to participate in a December Univision debate in Miami. There is simply no way to read this action as anything but a national repudiation of their extreme anti-immigrant strategy of recent years, and a desperate attempt to beg the Hispanic community for forgiveness.
November 7, 2007For the second consecutive November election, the GOP invested a great deal of money, candidate time and hope in using the issue of immigration to hurt Democrats. And for the second consecutive election it did not deliver for the GOP. Read why.
Press Articles
(Bloomberg, April 15, 2008)
(The Politico, April 1, 2008)
(Washington Times, February 27, 2008)
(Washington Post, February 20, 2008)
(USA Today, February 7, 2008)
(Mother Jones, February 4, 2008)
(San Francisco Chronicle, February 1, 2008)
(The Hill, December 5, 2007)
(Wall Street Journal, November 19, 2007)
(Christian Science Monitor, November 19, 2007) |
