"Wal-Mart Bracero Program" - re *'s Latino vote play. . .

[DinahMoeHum]

Courtesy of the NY Daily News and columnist Juan Gonzalez:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/col/story/153010p-134583c.html

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Welcome to the Wal-Mart Bracero Program.
That's what some Latino leaders are calling President Bush's startling plan to create a massive new government-sanctioned guest worker program for more than 8 million immigrants in the country illegally.

Two years ago, one of his senior advisers concluded that if Bush gets the same percentage of the vote among all ethnic and racial groups this November that he received against Al Gore in 2000, he will lose the White House by 3 million votes.
The reason is simple. Hispanics, who usually vote Democratic, are the fastest-growing part of the electorate. Bush got 35% of the Hispanic vote against Gore. He needs at least 40% to 45% to win this time.

So in the first week of the election year, Bush turned immigration into a national issue by dangling the carrot of legal status before millions of immigrants.

Latinos have seen this carrot before...
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much more. . .

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