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August 26, 2009

Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., said in a statement this morning Kennedy “will always have a place of honor in the Latino community as someone who stood up and fought for the rights of immigrants and the issues that affected the community at a time when few others would.”

June 24, 2009

“Even under the low immigration assumptions, minorities will fuel 73 percent of household growth in 2010-20, with Hispanics leading the way at 36 percent,” researchers found.

June 23, 2009

Fort Worth is the largest city in Texas without a Hispanic representing a House seat

December 10, 2008

Speaking outside the hospital, Diego Sucuzhanay said his brother had been singled out for his “skin color” and sounded a warning to other immigrants. “Today my brother is the victim, but tomorrow it could be your brother, your mother, your father,” Mr. Sucuzhanay said.

November 7, 2008

In 1964, President Johnson’s top adviser, Jack Valenti, cut down a group of Latinos seeking presidential appointments. “You have one percent of the vote, so you have one percent of my attention,” Raul Yzaguirre recalled Valenti saying.

September 27, 2008

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson said he thought his state was slipping out of McCain’s grasp. “Republicans have damaged McCain’s prospects with Hispanic voters, even though McCain has a good record on immigration,” he said, predicting that McCain would slip to a dangerous 35 percent of the Hispanic vote, which is a key constituency in the West.

September 22, 2008

“The truth is that Hispanics came here as conquerors. African-Americans came here as slaves. … Hispanics consider themselves above blacks. They won’t vote for a black president.” – Fernando C’ de Baca, who heads the GOP in Bernalillo County, New Mexico

September 21, 2008

Ex-congressman questions Dems’ presumptions of Latino votes – Former Texas Rep. Henry Bonilla – “Don’t you think it’s insulting that they assume they have your support if your skin is a few shades darker?”

September 15, 2008

“In Puerto Rico where you all come from over 85 percent of the people turn out to vote in every single election, and somehow when we move to the mainland we try to keep our language, we try to keep out lechon asado (roast pork) we certainly keep our music, but sometimes we forget the one of the important things about being Puerto Rican is that we register to vote and you turn out to vote in huge numbers. And unfortunately up here on the mainland only twenty or thirty percent of Puerto Ricans register and vote in the elections and that’s like giving away part of being Puerto Rican.” said McClintock.

July 28, 2008

“McCain’s problem is the problem of his party demonizing Hispanic people,” Luis Cortes (one of Time Magazine’s 25 most influential evangelicals in America & 2x Bush backer) said. “His party demonized us. You can’t switch off the immigration rhetoric and think it will work. In the context of the immigration issue, Hispanics define the enemy as the Republican Party and you don’t erase that overnight.

Regardless of whom Hispanics wind up supporting come November, Harley Shaiken, chairman of the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of California Berkeley, says there’s clearly a cautionary tale in all this. “Tension is nothing new between races and ethnicities in this country,” he says. “But it can be overstated … racial and ethnic relations are very complex to interpret. Plausible and correct are two different things.”

July 14, 2008

“Only about 500 Latino voters in Miami decided that George Bush, and not Al Gore, should be the next president,” points out Jorge Ramos, an anchor for the Spanish-language network Univision . “In the year 2004, if only 67,000 Latinos in Nevada, Colorado and New Mexico would have voted for John Kerry instead of George Bush, John Kerry would have been president of the United States.”

June 26, 2008

“Latinos and poor communities are already struggling to get access to the opportunities that will move them beyond poverty, that will lead to things like education and homeownership,” Liz Guillen said. “The lack of Internet access is really a lack of access to information, and information is what one needs to move forward in today’s society.”

June 10, 2008

John Leguizamo: “I would be terrified if Obama didn’t win the election” : People en Español

May 29, 2008

“A certain segment has basically been feeding a kind of xenophobia. There’s a reason why hate crimes against Hispanic people doubled last year,” Obama said. “If you have people like Lou Dobbs and Rush Limbaugh ginning things up, it’s not surprising that would happen.”

May 15, 2008

“It’s as if they had five kids, maybe 10 kids, die in their class because they’re not there anymore. That’s what it’s like…it’s like a natural disaster,” Walz said. – Postville principal still seeing impact of immigration raid

May 7, 2008

Quote: I shook his hand, he left, comes back, the mayor of Los Angeles, I thought it was a Secret Service agent, maybe a shoeshine guy. Turns out he gives me his card, I said, “Oh, my gosh, it’s the mayor of Los Angeles.” I stood up, I said, “Hello, Mr. Villaraigosa. – Lou Dobbs

April 28, 2008

“Being in this country without proper documentation is not a crime,” New Jersey’s U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie told more than 60 residents and town officials. “The whole phrase of ‘illegal immigrant’ connotes that the person, by just being here, is committing a crime.”

“I had Hispanic agencies telling me that, ‘no, Mexicans like soccer, baseball and boxing,’ ” Hambric (Lorena Ochoa’s Agent) said. “But this is a woman who is now the No. 1, best-regarded person in her country.”

April 14, 2008

“The truth is, whatever else immigrants from Latin America bring to the Catholic Church, they bring numbers, and without them this would be a Church in decline.”

March 24, 2008

“I resent the fact that the Clinton people are now saying that my endorsement is too late because I only can help with Texans — with Texas and Hispanics, implying that that’s my only value,” Gov. Bill Richardson told CNN’s John King

March 11, 2008

Recently, CNN’s Bill Schneider explained Texas’ ”two-step” voting process by using the metaphor of a Mexican combination plate and quipped that both ”give you heartburn.”

February 13, 2008

“If you are a citizen of Durham, we will give you all the rights and services of a citizen, whether you are from South Carolina or Mexico,” Durham Police Chief Jose L. Lopez Sr. said in Spanish. – North Carolina

February 11, 2008

”There’s so much anti-immigrant and anti-Hispanic sentiment out there, and this just feeds into it even more,” said Millie Herrera, president of the state Democratic Hispanic Caucus. “We are giving her a week and then we will escalate. We’re not going to drop this.” – about U.S. Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite Puerto Rican ‘foreigner’ comment

February 7, 2008

”It was huge, and it will be huge in November,” says pollster John Zogby, referring to the Hispanic voter turnout. “The issue of illegal immigration is really energizing Latino voters.”

“I mean 30 percent, about 30 percent (and) numbers may be higher and that is unprecedented for Latinos in any state,” said Albert Camarillo of Stanford University, about how many Latinos came out to vote. “So what does that say? Bottom line, Latinos are a major political force in the state of California.”

February 4, 2008

“There’s been a tremendous impact in Oklahoma City,” said David Castillo, the executive director of the Greater Oklahoma City Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. “We’ve had several companies close shop and leave the state. Banks have called us and say they’re closing 30 accounts per week.” – Due to Oklahoma’s new law

January 29, 2008

“If I do endorse, it’s going to be a gut feeling. It’s not going to be about statistics, about past ties,” Richardson said. “I’ve been on the campaign trail with both of them. I feel that I know them. I feel I know the issues. I feel I know what makes them both tick.”

January 16, 2008

“To appease people in middle America, they are going to kill our communities along the border,” said Pat Ahumada, the mayor of Brownsville. “The rest of America has no idea how we live our lives here. We are linked by the Rio Grande, not divided by it. Our history, our families, our neighbors are tied together on both sides of that river.”

January 10, 2008

Republican state Rep. Shane Jett, who opposed 1804, offers a more dire prediction. Without changes, the law “will be the single most destructive economic disaster since the Dust Bowl,” he says. – Oklahoma

January 9, 2008

“The collaboration between The Vidal Partnership and Eyeblaster helped us reach our valued Hispanic consumers in a creative and culturally relevant way this holiday season,” said Rebeca Ruiz, Senior Manager of Multicultural Marketing at The Home Depot.

November 26, 2007

“When an alien lives with you in your land, do not mistreat him. The alien living with you must be treated as one of your native-born. Love him as yourself, for you were aliens in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.” – Leviticus 19:33-34

November 19, 2007

‘To hear the debate on immigration in 2007 in which members of the United States Senate would use the words that I’ve fought all my 22 years of public service — `Those people’, I would never have believed it,” said Sen. Robert Menendez. ‘When they say those words it’s not about the undocumented [immigrants] alone. I understand very clearly what ‘those people’ means. ‘Those people’ is all of us.”

November 13, 2007

“Not once is any Latino mentioned by name,” said Julio Noboa, an assistant professor of curriculum and instruction at the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmonst College who has written a book on the subject. “Not Latino, not Hispanic, not Mexican, not Mexican-American or any other term referring to Hispanics.” regarding Texas TEKS that Texas students study in fourth and 11th grades

November 12, 2007

“Ballet is traditionally controlled by the big companies, but more and more companies have found success with the help of Hispanics,” says Octavio Roca

November 11, 2007

However, eMarketer senior analyst Debra Aho Williamson said that neither of the studies told the whole story of ads targeting Hispanic-Americans. “With the growing number of companies using English-language advertising to reach Hispanic consumers, measuring such spending should be a priority,” Ms. Williamson said. “But for now, most measurement firms only provide estimates of Spanish-language ad spending.”

October 29, 2007

“You’re looking at the same firepower here on the border that our soldiers are facing in Iraq and Afghanistan,” Thomas Mangan, a spokesman in Phoenix for the ATF, said in an interview. – (re: the fire power of the drug cartels on the border)

October 28, 2007

“My guess is that there’s about $150 billion to $200 billion in it, and they know no one is going to claim it.” – Dr. David Molina on how much money the Social Security Administration has from mismatched Social Security numbers

October 24, 2007

“TV is the champ,” he said. “You look at the TV Azteca commentary, and she’s talking about the fire, the flames, the fear and the sweat of the pilots, how they are working so hard, with the lack of visibility. The general media like Fox just gives you the information. … It’s like when you see a soccer commentary in Spanish. In English it’s so cold, it has no flavor.”

“The largest market in the city is Latinos, but no one’s talking to them on the city level,” said Fred Sotelo, board chairman of Casa Familiar Inc., a San Ysidro nonprofit that opened an evacuation center Tuesday. “Everything we get from the cities, we’re having to translate, nonstop. … And hey, that’s the work we do. But at the end of the day, it means less funding for us.”

“Cal-Mex is long on burritos and sour cream,” Mr. Walsh said. “In New Mexico, it’s all about green chilies, and in Arizona they are proud to have invented chimichangas — deep-fried burritos. The embodiment of Tex-Mex is a cheese enchilada with gravy.”

October 22, 2007

“Phoenix police arrested over 3,500 illegal immigrant last year alone and turned over 2,000 individuals who were illegal over to ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement). That’s not a sanctuary city,” Mayor Phil Gordon said.

October 21, 2007

“I think there’s a lot of fear out there,” says Stewart. “All of the (presidential) candidates to some extent are using the immigration thing as a lever to get elected. They’re appealing to the fear Americans have, some of this 9/11 stuff. And the rhetoric has a lot of the people who are not as informed or maybe don’t listen carefully, convinced that most of the Spanish people in this country are illegal immigrants or they’re terrorists.”

October 15, 2007

Oklahoma City Police Chief Bill Citty said that his department is “not going to enforce immigration laws,” saying it is the department’s opinion that “it’s a federal issue.”

“These raids are done mostly for symbolic purposes,” giving the appearance that government is cracking down on the hiring of illegal immigrants, said Juan Perea, a University of Florida law professor who specializes in immigration history. “Serious enforcement of the law would involve enforcing it against many employers all the time, and that doesn’t happen”

October 14, 2007

“The irony, of course, is the people who would send millions of Latinos back south are often the same people who decry the loss of spirituality in America. Does it occur to them that the immigrants from Latino cultures are giving the nation a transfusion of spirit and faith? Do they realize the cavalry may have arrived, and they are sending them back?”

October 11, 2007

“Think about [the additional] cost to your house if they (immigrants) weren’t here,” Professor Johnson said. “Are you willing to add an extra $100,000 to the price of your house?”

“We’re the fastest-growing minority in this country, but we are the poorest,” Mr. Limon, a General Motors engineer, said to a room full of Hispanic high school students. “Why? Because we have the poorest education. But you can be a success if you choose to be.”

October 10, 2007

QUOTE: “This economy is working because we have them, and if you want to take them away _ round them up and send them home _ it will be the loudest sucking sound you have ever heard,” Thomas Donohue, chief executive of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said.

October 9, 2007

QUOTE: “They built 160 sterilization clinics,” Rosie Perez said. “The women would work a full day and then get sterilized and be back at work the next day. They told the women they were doing their patriotic duty; they didn’t tell them the procedure could not be reversed.” – (this did happen in Puerto Rico, I recently learned)

QUOTE: “It gets worse everyday,” said Danilo Almanzar, 50, a Washington Heights factory worker. “Make the calculation yourself, I earn $10.93 an hour and I pay $1,200 [in rent], how much I have left, nothing.” – concerning the gentrification of Washington Heights and East Harlem in NYC

October 8, 2007

QUOTE: “If you took away Hispanic labor from agriculture and from dairying in Wisconsin, we’d be in crisis,” said Wisconsin Secretary of Agriculture Rod Nilestuen. “There’s no two ways about that.”

October 4, 2007

QUOTE: “I’ve played every stereotype except the pregnant teenager,” Tony Plana jokes. And paying gigs in Spanish? “Of course,” returns Plana. “I’ve been the voice of Toyota Tundra, Jeep Liberty, Chrysler Pacifica — mostly in Spanish. It’s allowed me to generate income using Spanish alone, so Spanish has been an asset, I think.”

QUOTE: “We need all of the children in this country to learn Spanish at an early age, not English only,” Kucinich said.

September 30, 2007

QUOTE: “Why do less than half of Hispanic and African-American fourth graders have basic reading skills, as defined by the Nation’s Report Card? That’s 700,000 students who can barely read! And why do only half of minority students graduate from high school on time?” asked Spellings.

QUOTE: “Hispanic, Latina/Latino, Chicana/Chicano. The verbiage is a matter of interpretation or personal politics, but the heroes are everywhere.” – Barb Guy

QUOTE: “If you see the Hispanic community as a potential, you’re late,” Jose Arellano said. “The Hispanic community is an economic reality ”¦ It’s not something that will come, it’s already here.”

QUOTE: “I don’t think it’s really registered with people just how influential the Latino vote can be in some of these state primaries,” said NALEO’s executive director, Arturo Varga

September 27, 2007

QUOTE: “When death becomes so common it could be that a lot of people kind of become numb, so the deaths aren’t a priority anymore. It’s not an excuse, but I could see how it could happen,” Nestor Rodriguez, a University of Houston professor said. – (regarding dead immigrants in border communities)

QUOTE: “We’re not just hurting people driving without driver’s licenses,” said Luis DeLaGarza, a political consultant who helped organize the rally. “We are hurting the economy in Irving. We need to have immigration reform.”

September 26, 2007

QUOTE: “I’m disappointed for thousands of young people whose lives are just in limbo,” Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill. added. “They want to move on with their lives and do good things, and unfortunately we haven’t been able to pass the laws to make that happen.” – in reference to the Dream Act

QUOTE: “This is very tricky, because undocumented students are desperate for some kind of legalization,” said Jorge Mariscal, director of the University of California San Diego’s Chicano Studies program and a longtime critic of military recruiting within minority communities. “I’m completely conflicted.”

QUOTE: “Nobody knows what’s going to happen. We’re all still waiting,” said 74-year-old Daniel Garza, whose Granjeno plot would be slashed in half according to documents the U.S. Department of Homeland Security released on Monday. – Border Fence

QUOTE: “In the Latino areas where candidates advocated a variant of ‘enforcement only,’” said Nadler, “support for Republicans dropped by more than 21 percentage points over a single cycle, and support for Democrats rose by an equivalent amount. But where Republican candidates supported comprehensive immigration reform – some combination of border control and guest-worker programs or earned legalization – the situation was quite different. There, Republicans lost roughly 4 percentage points, and Democrats gained 4 – a shift in line with national trends.”

September 25, 2007

QUOTE: “Danzón is now forgotten,” says Cachao, wistfully. “Back then, every one danced romantically.”

QUOTE: “They no longer need to hide and pretend they are not here,” Gov. Eliot Spitzer said. “We will not become part of what is propagated on the federal level _ that if we don’t admit they are here, then we can somehow not provide services. That is bad policy.” regarding New York’s plan to provide driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants

QUOTE: “There are huge cultural parallels between ancient Egypt and Mexico in religion, astronomy, architecture and the arts. They deserve to be appreciated together,” said exhibition organizer Gina Ulloa

QUOTE: “I don’t think any young Latinos know about the humiliations we had to endure,” says Rita Moreno, the co-star of CBS’ “Cane,” who now lives in Berkeley. “People who were my employers looked right through me. Not a ‘Good Morning’ or a ‘Hello.’ It was really quite astonishing that they acted like I was invisible. And in a way I wasn’t there, because Latinos weren’t there.” – on her treatment in Hollywood

September 24, 2007

Quote: “When it comes to brand loyalty and the Hispanic consumer, the key learning for marketers is understanding the importance of building a brand relationship during the initial stages of acculturation and maintaining this connection as Hispanics’ integration to American life increases,” said Kregor.

September 23, 2007

QUOTE: “There’s this notion that if you come from a Spanish background, you don’t need Spanish as a foreign language at school,” said Martinez. “Many Hispanic kids aren’t learning Spanish diction, language, grammar and verb conjugation.”

QUOTE: “Where you’re really seeing the growth is the acculturated bilingual that’s comfortable with their heritage and their language, who chooses on a case-by-case basis whether to partake of something in English or Spanish,” says Miguel Ferrer, editorial director at AOL Latino.

QUOTE: ““We’re the final frontier in all areas, people whose stories haven’t been heard,’’ says Alex Nogales, president of the National Hispanic Media Coalition. ““Everybody wants a piece of us, but they don’t know how to dance with us. We’re good business.’’

QUOTE: ”In South Florida, you can’t assume to know the legal status of someone, so we need a term that covers all the bases,” Anders Gyllenhaal, the executive editor, told me, noting the dense mix of asylum cases, Cuban privileges, visas and violations.

September 20, 2007

QUOTE: “It’s important because millions of people watch and love her show, never giving a second thought to whether she’s brown, green or blue. She just happens to be Hispanic, and no one cares. Ahhhh, life as it should be!” – Esther J. Cepeda on America Ferrera winning an Emmy

QUOTE: “My feeling is (Hispanic” blood “donation) doesn’t happen because we don’t create the channels,” said Dr. Diego Chaves-Gnecco, a pediatrician at Children’s Hospital and founder of its five-year-old bilingual clinic, Salud Para Ninos. “We cannot expect or wait for the community to come to us. They’re not going to go to the office of a stranger.”

QUOTE: How many of these young Latino recruits are illegal immigrants? “Nobody knows,” says Flavia Jimenez, an immigration policy analyst at the National Council of La Raza. “But what we do know is that recruiters may not be up to speed on everybody’s legal status. We also know that a significant number of [illegals] have died in Iraq.”

September 19, 2007

QUOTE: “You can’t go through an entire primary process and refuse to talk to black and brown voters,” a passionate Tavis Smiley told us. “If you’re not going to talk to all of America then you don’t deserve to be president of all of America.” – concerning Republican’s snubbing his debate

QUOTE: In response to the question, “What reaction did you got from readers?” regarding Gourmet magazine’s Latin American cuisine issue – “We got widely different responses, with people saying ‘thank you, thank you, thank you’, this is the best issue you’ve ever done, to other people saying this is disgusting, we never eat these kinds of food’, or isn’t gourmet a French word?’ So clearly there is racism in food as there is in everything else.”

QUOTE: “After what happened to me — a well-known person, 19 years in the community — no Brazilian in this area will call police to report a crime,” said Roberto Lima (editor of the Brazilian Voice newspaper in New Jersey), a naturalized U.S. citizen. “Even if they see Osama bin Laden himself, they will not call police.”

September 18, 2007

QUOTE: “It is difficult for me to call myself a Latino actress. When I tried to do that the Latin community made it very clear that I didn’t speak Spanish and I never did a Spanish speaking movie so I wasn’t really part of it because I was half, which made me feel terrible. I only grew up with the Latin side of my family. That’s the only culture I could really identify with, but they are right, I don’t speak Spanish. So there is nothing I can say in defense.”

QUOTE: “Meat packers are going to go out of business. Farms are going to move to Mexico. Even if you can pay better wages, it’s going to be difficult to find enough American workers to fill all those jobs,” Jacoby said. “It will be devastating for the economy.” – Oklahoma

QUOTE: “Latino babies are the silent crisis in foster care,” Rachel Humphreys (executive director, La Cuna) said. “The biggest need for foster care is coming out of homes with Latino, monolingual families. We see a lot of domestic violence, poverty, abuse, homelessness.”

QUOTE: “In this study, Hispanics started off with a large number of difficulties and disadvantages in their lives,” Yongmin Sun said. “When that’s the case, family crises like divorce may not add much to the original problems.”

September 17, 2007

QUOTE: “About 86.5 percent of our Hispanic consumers are English speakers,” said Ingrid Nelson, vp and general manager for Comcast Spotlight in San Francisco

September 16, 2007

QUOTE: “The cultural dynamic of a border city (that isn’t really Mexico or really the United States) makes you lead a divided life. You grow up in a dual cultural space that enables you to switch easily between, say, Johnny Carson and (Mexican variety show) ‘Siempre en Domingo,’ between ‘The Simpsons’ and ‘El Chapulín Colorado,’ between the Chivas and the Chargers.” – Bill “Memo” Nericcio

QUOTE: “Spanish, socially and politically, hasn’t had the respect as a language it deserves,” said Berta Ortega Plate, the Escuela Bilingüe’s pre-primary director. “It’s (because of) the political climate in the United States that people don’t really understand the gains. They take the perspective that Spanish-speaking immigrants aren’t going to contribute.”

QUOTE: “If you’re Hispanic, over 70, a family member has glaucoma and you have diabetes, there’s a 50 percent chance you have glaucoma,” said Dr. Francisco Fantes, ophthalmology professor at the University of Miami Bascom Palmer Eye Institute

September 15, 2007

QUOTE: “One-third of the population in Texas is Hispanic – right? If you take whatever business you’re in and cut the pie into three pieces and say, ‘I don’t need one-third of the pie,’ is that good for business?,” – Jaime Gonzalez, national business development manager for UnitedHealthcare’s Latino Health Solutions

September 13, 2007

QUOTE: “We’re moving up,” Richardson told reporters at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. “I’m surging, and I’m going to peak at the right time. I don’t want to be ahead right now.”

QUOTE: “While Republicans have been the ones actively proposing legislation that’s more punitive, Democrats have not stood up anywhere close enough to ask for the fair policy that we feel needs to be considered.” – Alex Orozco

QUOTE: “Patti (Solis) has been a close advisor and friend for almost 16 years,” said Hillary Clinton. “I am proud to see that her hard work and commitment to help bring change to our country is being recognized.”

QUOTE: “I am so depressed about the situation that I don’t feel human, sometimes,” she says. “They are right that we are not legal. We are wrong. But we are stealing nothing. We work so hard. They need us.”

September 12, 2007

QUOTE: Joe Pilotta notes. “Advertisers who have the courage to spend more in the Hispanic market might experience bigger returns than expected.”

QUOTE: “I’m very proud, first of all to be the first Latino ”” major Latino candidate to run for President,” said Bill Richardson, “I’m disappointed today that 43 million Latinos in this country, for them not to hear one of their own speak Spanish.”

QUOTE: “Despite all the discussion about immigration, most of the Hispanic growth in the United States, and certainly in the Chicago area, is coming from natural increase,” Johnson said. “So even if the borders were to be closed tomorrow, there’s so much momentum in the large number of young Hispanics in America now that the Hispanic population will continue to grow at a fairly rapid rate.”