Monday, ImpreMedia released a poll addressing registered Hispanic voters’ feelings regarding health insurance reform. The poll has been placed on the front page of many well known papers across the country, including La Opinion in Los Angeles and El Diario la Prensa in New York.

Last week hundreds of young and middle aged Los Angeles residents, primarily blacks and Latinos, lined the street outside of an employment office vying for more than 600 jobs. In the second largest U.S. city, the unemployment rate is nearly fourteen percent. So when the new JW Marriot and Ritz Carlton hotels in downtown announced the […]

The current economic situation is forcing legislators to alter their approach to comprehensive immigration reform.  Speaking on the issue, Representative Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) said “each bill is reflective of a time. And with unemployment over 10 percent I think we need to have language that is very carefully tailored.”  His concerns are echoed by other […]

As the 2010 Census approaches, it is likely that the count of the U.S. population will confirm the continued growth of the nation’s largest minority population – Hispanics. The importance of this growth and what it means for congressional district reapportionments is becoming increasingly clear.

Three years ago, lawmakers in the only state to mandate health care and the first to legalize gay marriage, struck down a bill that would have allowed illegal immigrants to attend college at in-state tuition rates. With 10 other states – some far more conservative – having adopted such legislation, Massachusetts lawmakers are poised to […]

Speaking on the issue of immigration reform Friday morning the Center for American Progress , Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano explained that many of the benchmarks Congress set in 2007 for border security have been met.