Hispanics
Days after the Republican body of the House of Representatives stated that they would not support the highly-debated immigration reform bill, President Obama once more took to the airwaves in his weekly radio address to call for the House to pass the bill into law.
With the immigration reform proposal due for a potentially earth-shaking debate this summer, another major Republican has issued his support for immigration reform, but some Democrats are becoming hesitant on the bill's tough border provisions.
On Sunday, legislators took to the airwaves as they argued their cases for and against the immigration reform bill's passage at the House this time around.
Apparently undaunted by the perilous road ahead in the U.S. House of Representatives on the pending immigration reform bill, President Obama in his weekly radio address called for Congress to pass the bill, declaring that "the time for excuses is over."
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush argued for immigration reform, stating that more legal immigration would add to the American workforce and create more revenues from payroll taxes.
As a whole, Republicans are still on the fence regarding immigration reform, but they seem to be taking one large stance against adding in gay couples to the debate, as Sen. Marco Rubio's comments Thursday helped demonstrate.
Despite the earlier indications that the Republican Party was looking to come around on immigration reform, the party's stance has grown shakier as Congress prepares to debate the new immigration proposal this summer.
The Pew Internet and American Life Project released a study on Wednesday confirming what seemed to be an inevitability in modern American life: more Americans own smartphones than do not. Of those surveyed, about 56 percent overall could be classified as smartphone owners, and when the study was broken down into demographics, Hispanics helped lead the trend with 60 percent smartphone ownership.
As the immigration reform debate prepares to hit the stage in Congress, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., one of the lead voices on the push to pass immigration reform, said this week that contrary to popular belief, Republicans are largely in favor of immigration reform.
The famous singer, who recently began his new tour, received an award last week in the Puerto Rican Senate for the outstanding success he has accomplished in his country and abroad.
With the current debate on immigration reform raging on Capital Hill, Latino business leaders from around the country gathered Wednesday to meet at the White House to let the Obama administration know that Latinos care about more than just immigration reform.
According to a recent Gallup poll, the Obama administration has a 70 percent rate of approval among Hispanics.
According to a new study, the passage of immigration reform in Washington would add about three million new homeowners to the real estate market and spearhead a recovery for the ailing housing sector.
It appears that Latinos in high school are starting to enter college at a pace higher than in many years.
Having beaten out one of the top networks in the nation in the ratings this past February, Univision is looking to further tighten its grasp as the top Hispanic media outlet in the country as they seek to attract more advertisers to their expanding business.
