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Caribbean voters concerned over protections for immigrants | Local News | trinidadexpress.com
Politics tamfitronics The future of Caribbean immigrants,...
Voters head to the polls for Election Day
Top Stories Tamfitronics Democrat Mazie Hirono wins re-election to the Senate in Hawaii, NBC News projectsJulián Castro: Democrats must reckon with Latino losses David HodariWhen the dust has settled, Democrats will need to look at the way they approach the Latino community, Obama administration housing secretary Julián Castro told NBC News. “Something happened between 2016 and 2020, because the first significant dropoff we saw in places like south Texas was not this year but in 2020. The Democratic Party is going to have to do the inverse of what the Republican Party did in 2012, which is an autopsy to try and figure out what happened there,” Castro said.“The Latino communities are dividing or cleaving along the lines every other community is: urban versus rural, education level and so forth, especially when you compare...
Voters Continue To Choose Abortion Rights When They’re Not Thwarted By Inflated Thresholds
Politics tamfitronics Dobbs continues to reverberate through our politics as voters in 10 states choose whether to protect abortion access.Missouri became the first state to overturn a near-total abortion ban Tuesday night (while also voting in staunch anti-abortion Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO)).Voters in New York, Maryland and Colorado voted resoundingly to enshrine the right in their state constitutions.Voters in New York and Maryland voted resoundingly to enshrine the right in their state constitutions.And while a similar measure in Florida was defeated Tuesday, a majority voted for it. Well over half of voters in Florida — 57 percent with about 94 percent of votes tallied — supported the constitutional amendment, but Republican legislators had previously raised...
Immigration is many voters’ top issue, but these swing-state churches say it’s not politics
Politics tamfitronics MADISON, Wis. (RNS) — When Toni Swandby and her husband Mark decided to host Ngwa Augustine, a recent immigrant to Wisconsin from Cameroon, the couple opened not just their home to him, but their congregation at Midvale Community Lutheran Church.“Not only did the Holy Spirit lead me very specifically to say ‘yes’ to this young man from Cameroon,” Swandby said, “but the Spirit has guided our congregation to see people differently than ‘other.’”Midvale pastor the Rev. Katie Baardseth said that after the congregation met Augustine, it fell in love with supporting immigration-related ministries.Since welcoming Augustine, the church has hosted a family from Ukraine and another from Colombia, both currently living next door to the church in a...
