National Council of La Raza Statement on the 2006 Midterm Election and Beyond

“The National Council of La Raza (NCLR), the largest national Latino civil rights and advocacy organization in the U.S., today call on leaders of both political parties to work with the growing Latino electorate to bring about lasting immigration reform and progress on other key issues of concern to the Hispanic community.

“Yesterday’s results show that demonizing immigrants was not the path to victory many candidates thought it would be,” said Janet Murguí, NCLR President and CEO. “The election results indicate a wholesale repudiation of the notion that the American electorate is motivated by anti-immigrant rhetoric, policies, or campaign tactics,” she said, noting that most candidates who ran on an explicitly anti-immigrant platform were defeated. “

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