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July 02, 2012 Farmer Claim Americans Don't Want to Work "For many such farmers, the decision entails picking the lesser evil from a series of bad options: They can hire willing, foreign-born workers, who present appropriate work papers--like a Social Security card or a photo I.D.--that aren't verified by an official agency. They can hire American-born workers who aren't reliable and often quit. Or they can use the only official government program permitting agriculture guest workers, which wasn't designed to generate year-round farm employees," claims a South Dakota dairy farmer in the Wall Street Journal.
Kin of DHS Agents Slain in Mexico Want Answers "The families of two U.S. immigration agents shot more than a year ago on a Mexican highway renewed their demand Friday that the U.S. government explain the decisions that put them there and answer questions about how guns purchased in the U.S. fell into the hands of their attackers," the Washington Post writes. "The parents of slain Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jaime Zapata joined with the sister of agent Victor Avila to press the government on whether an operation similar to one in Arizona that allowed illegally purchased guns to be smuggled into Mexico in hopes to tracking them to higher-ranking criminal figures was responsible for the guns used in the attack."
Illegal Aliens Seek Law Licenses in Greater Numbers "Illegal immigrants brought to the USA as children, and who later graduated law schools in California, Florida and New York, are trying to gain entry to their state bars so they can work as attorneys. Sergio Garcia's family illegally crossed into the USA from Mexico when he was 17 months old, and he went on to graduate from Chico State University and Cal Northern School of Law. He took the state bar exam in July 2009 and passed it but was told he could not join the state bar -- a standard requirement for all practicing attorneys -- because he had checked a box on his application that said he was in the country illegally," USA Today writes.
Poll Shows Hispanic Voters Lean Independent "A new poll finds a majority of Hispanics identifying as independents but Republicans still facing challenges in winning these voters over in the 2012 election. Fifty-one percent of Hispanics describe themselves as political independents, according to a new USA Today/Gallup poll. Thirty-two percent identify as Democrats, 11 percent as Republicans," The Hill reports. "Among immigrants, the tendency to identify as independent is even higher. Sixty percent of Hispanic immigrants peg themselves as independents, compared with 44 percent of first-generation Hispanics and 43 percent of those second-generation or higher. But the poll finds a bright spot for Republicans: Each succeeding generation of Hispanics is more likely to identify as Republican than the prior one."
The Myth of the Monolithic Hispanic Vote "The reasons that Hispanics give for choosing between Obama and Romney are just as diverse as the countries that they or their ancestors once called home, suggesting there's no one-size-fits-all approach to courting the nation's fastest-growing minority group. The Latino vote isn't monolithic or, really, a voting bloc. It includes a range of people with varying opinions. Among them are Republican-leaning Cubans in Florida, new Mexican immigrants and longtime descendants of Spanish settlers in the Southwest, and Democratic-tilting Puerto Ricans in the East," CBS News reports.
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