Harry Pachon
Harry Pachon
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Simple demographics. There's going to be more than five and a half million Latino voters voting in November.
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What the marches have done is give a human face to the immigration issue in the United States today.
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There is a lot of overacting on Spanish TV, too, ... Maybe that will make the transition easier.
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One out of every nine Americans is now Latino. In certain states, Latinos, in the next 20 years, will outnumber the traditional white non-Hispanic population.
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Politics, for most Americans, is not an everyday-life issue. It is not something that affects you personally. That is why these demonstrations are so interesting, because what it shows is that immigration is not an academic issue; it is a genuine issue on the Hispanic immigrant side. You are talking about your friends, relatives, neighbors.
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Los Angeles is Los Angeles, and it's very easy for someone to come here not knowing English and be able to get a toehold on American society.
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Legal or illegal, advertisers still think they have to buy toothpaste in the morning,
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That doesn't surprise me. These are businesses catering to the new ethnic enclaves.
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Look at the Chicago area. Cook County, Illinois, now has more Latinos than Arizona, New Mexico or Colorado.
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He was a quiet ground-breaker, ... Many of his accomplishments go unrecognized because he did things in a quiet way.
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He voted his conscience, even when people made fun of him,
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an unprecedented outreach into the Mexican immigrant community.
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Oh my goodness, we've heard such horribly accented Spanish in the past six months, I can't tell you. You kind of wince and you say, 'OK, let's get through the Spanish,' because you know the candidate is really trying to say something to Latinos.
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It makes sense for them to do this. It's a demographic imperative that's happening in the nation. It's showing that the Hispanic population is developing into a national presence. If it was still regionalised I don't know if they'd go through the trouble.