Las Noticias de los Latinos, August 9

Posted by Matt Ortega · August 9, 2007 ·

Check out these articles regarding Latinos and our community.

Sue Ontiveros, Chicago Sun-Times, “Latinos are wasting their political potential”
Latinos just don’t show up at the polls and fiercely anti-immigrant voters do. The conventional wisdom is that as a sitting senator or presidential hopeful, it’s hard to pass immigration reform that respects the nation’s immigrant heritage and win the next election.

Krissah Williams, Washington Post, “Covering New Communities”
Insurance companies have screwed just about everybody else in the United States, might as well get the immigrants, too, right?

Julia Preston, New York Times, “U.S. Set for a Crackdown on Illegal Hiring”
U.S. federal authorities will be stepping up efforts to crackdown on employers that hire illegal workers. The Department of Homeland Security is expected to send 140,000 no-match (Social Security) letters to employers of ten or more workers that will account for an estimated 8 million workers.

Ruth Marcus, Washington Post, “Attack Ads You’ll Be Seeing”
Republicans will be attacking Democrats and spreading lies about immigrants. So what else is new?

Adriana Garcia, Reuters, “Fewer Mexicans seen sending money home from U.S.”
The percentage of Mexicans that sent money back home dropped seven percent in the first half of 2007 than the previous year, from 71 percent to 64 percent. The estimated raw figure is roughly 500,000 undocumented immigrants have stopped sending money home.

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