Arizona hasn’t produced many competitive elections lately, but it retains a knack for crystallizing the most volatile fault lines in American politics. In 2010, Republican Gov. Jan Brewer’s signing of the stringent anti-immigration measure known as SB 1070 dramatized the colliding worldviews of a Democratic coalition centered on younger minorities […] Read more »
How Immigration Plays in Border States
When it comes to the immigration overhaul debate, the U.S.-Mexico border states are different. Those four states – Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas – hold 27.5 million Hispanics, about half of the total U.S. Hispanic population. As the House of Representatives digs into immigration policy you might think those […] Read more »
Is it really the GOP’s anti-immigration stances that turn off Latinos?
Pundits left and right have embraced the notion that the Republican Party has a strong political interest in passing comprehensive immigration reform. As the argument goes, the GOP lost a good shot at the presidency in 2012 because of a pro-Obama shift among Latino voters, which itself was a reaction […] Read more »
Arizona: Voters doubt SB 1070 benefit, want job focus
… Central to Arizona’s effort against undocumented immigrants is Senate Bill 1070, which was passed by the Legislature and signed by Governor Jan Brewer in the spring of 2010. The law, which was immediately challenged in court by the U.S. Justice Department, was at the time the nation’s harshest anti-immigrant […] Read more »
ASU’s Morrison Institute creates Latino Center for public policy
Morrison Institute for Public Policy on Monday officially launched its Latino center with a mission to increase the state’s understanding of Latino issues as they relate to Arizona public policy, education, workforce, leadership and economy. … The center already has produced its first publication: “Arizona’s Emerging Latino Vote,” which uses […] Read more »
Why Arizona may be the surpise of 2012 – the big Latino vote that you didn’t see coming
… New polling data out of Arizona released by America’s Voice and Latino Decisions suggests Arizona may be much closer than the polling averages indicate. A full 80% of Latinos say they plan to vote for Obama, compared to just 14% for Romney, and Latino enthusiasm is much, much higher […] Read more »