Latinos

Raul Ruiz win tells story of Election 2012

November 20, 2012 | Politics & Government

Ruiz's victory was a dramatic sublot in the story of American politics. | AP Photo

By KATE NOCERA POLITICO If the growing sway of Latinos in American politics was the story of election 2012, Raul Ruiz’s triumph in California’s 36th Congressional District was a dramatic subplot. The son of migrant farmworkers who scraped his way through UCLA and then Harvard Medical School, Ruiz dislodged Rep. Mary Bono Mack, a 14-year fixture of the Republican Conference who didn’t seem to fully Read More …

Obama outDREAMs Romney

June 22, 2012 | Opinion, PerryScope

DREAMers rally outside the White House on June 15, 2012 in support of President Barack Obama.

Kaleidoscope By Perry Diaz Making a bold and big step forward, President Barack Obama signed an executive order last June 15, 2012 that would defer the deportation of the children of illegal immigrants.  It was a dream come true to an estimated 800,000 young people – known as the DREAMers — who are in danger of deportation to their country of birth only because they Read More …

Obama Tells America ‘It’s Time to Graduate’

June 22, 2012 | Opinion

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By Joel Bander, Senior Columnist PinoyWatchDog.com Selecting the traditional June graduation weekend President Obama finally took a first grand step toward real immigration reform by issuing an executive order stopping removal proceedings against, and providing work authorization for, innocent, essentially criminally free, alien minors illegally in the United States for over five years, arriving in the U.S. before their 16th birthday, and having completed high Read More …