Mayor of Los Angeles Antonio Villarraigosa is traveling this week in support of Barack Obama. Villaraigosa supported Hillary Clinton early in the primary process and campaigned heavily for her in the previous months… The Los Angeles mayor will travel to Washington, D.C., on Tuesday to introduce the Democratic presidential candidate at a League of United […]

McCain took a swipe at the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee in a Spanish-language radio ad released last week. In the ad, a Latino supporter said McCain has “earned the trust of Latinos,” while “it seems to me that the other candidate has just discovered the importance of the Hispanic vote.” The Obama campaign disputed that […]

Polls reveal that immigration is important but its not the only issue that Hispanics are concerned about In a 2007 Pew Hispanic Center survey, immigration was deemed to be “very important” or “extremely important” by 79 percent of respondents, ranking it fifth among the issues tested. Education, health care, the economy and jobs, and crime […]

— Whether the code word of the day is “patriotism,” “liberation theology” or “working-class voters,” some will continue to cast this presidential election in the tired old paradigm of black and white. But, I’d ask Barack Obama and John McCain to look beyond all that and consider: What can brown do for you? The candidates […]

On immigration, LULAC president Rosa Rosales said that both candidates have not been “direct” enough on comprehensive immigration reform. “They have not been very direct,” said Rosales. “We want comprehensive immigration reform. We want Sen. Obama and Sen. McCain to be more specific about a plan of action. We want them to be specific about […]

Polly Baca, president of the Latin American Research and Service Agency, said the state’s passage of laws aimed at immigrants in 2006 motivated Hispanics to vote. That same year, about 50,000 people demonstrated in Denver against government crackdowns on illegal immigrant workers, she said. “All of that politicized the Latino community,” Baca said. “It’s exciting. […]

Once known as the sleeping giant, new findings reveal, that Latinos could indeed determine the outcome in swing states…. Voting by Hispanics surged in the last congressional elections, showing strength that could swing this year’s presidential vote in closely contested states like Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico. A government report released Tuesday shows that 5.6 […]

John Mccain heads to Latin America to lay out his foreign policy plan….. WASHINGTON (AFP) — Republican White House pick John McCain heads to Colombia Tuesday, on a trip also including Mexico, designed to draw sharp contrasts over trade and foreign policy with Democratic foe Barack Obama. The Arizona senator’s itinerary was also sketched with […]

McCain’s recent comments on immigrations suggest that he is trying to please voters on both sides of the issue…. It was the issue of immigration, after all, that almost sunk McCain’s candidacy back in the summer of 2007, when the Senate debated and defeated a comprehensive immigration bill that was dubbed the McCain-Kennedy bill and […]

Latino Stars come out for Barack Obama…. The last time he appeared on the front of the popular culture bible was in March, when it gave him its backing for president, saying he had “emerged by displaying precisely the kind of character and judgment we need in a president: renouncing the politics of fear, speaking […]