Latino leaders caution that politicians bash immigrants at their own risk.

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A wave of young Hispanic voters is about to hit the polls, leaders of the community said today.

Of Latinos under age 18 living in the United States, 93 percent are citizens and a half-million of those will reach the legal voting age each year for the next 20 years, said officials of the National Council of La Raza, a leading civil-rights advocacy group for Latinos. That will further enhance the political clout of what is already the largest minority community in the country -- and, NCLR leaders said, produce a backlash against politicians who engage in rhetoric that many Hispanics have come to feel is aimed at them.

“Demonizing immigrants is a losing strategy,” said NCLR chief lobbyist Clarissa Martinez De Castro.

http://nationaljournal.com/politics/the-rising-hispanic-tide-20110304

[atreides1]

1. I have a question

How many will vote Republican? You know the party that is leading the charge against anyone who isn't white.

[JustAnotherGen]

2. Agreed

But if goes beyond just Latinos. . . Where I live? I come into contact with Eastern European, Indian, Chinese, South Korean, Pakistani, and Middle Eastern immigrants - every single day.


By the way - I'm marrying a guy off the boat from Italy. We still have those Western, Northern, and Southern European people coming to America too - and he's one of those 'blood sucking socialist' types. :rofl: Owns his own businesses but does these crazy things like giving his employees 6 weeks vacation, unlimited sick days, covers the lions share of their health benes, etc. etc. Ya know - a 'socialist' who gets demonized by the right for coming here, making his own way, and wanting to make sure the people that work WITH him . . . not 'for' him can prosper with him and have a good quality of life.

And he's watching the Immigration Debates - he's watching them very carefully.