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    CA-Hispanic groups unite to register 2 million voters

    Hispanic groups unite to register 2 million voters
    By TERESA WATANABELos Angeles Times



    LOS ANGELES — Buoyed by a surge of political interest among immigrants and youth, nine national Hispanic organizations have announced a joint effort to register as many as 2 million new voters as presidential candidates from both parties vie for their community’s increasingly influential support.

    The $5 million nonpartisan voter registration effort, announced at the third annual National Latino Congreso on Friday, comes amid an unprecedented campaign by community organizations and Spanish-language media to boost Hispanic civic participation — and two new reports showing signs of success.

    The U.S. government last week reported that the number of Mexican immigrants who became citizens last year swelled by 50 percent, with hundreds of thousands more in line to process their naturalization applications.

    Community leaders expressed even more excitement about a new study by the Texas-based William C. Velasquez Institute, a nonpartisan public policy organization in San Antonio, that found more than 1 million Hispanics registered to vote during this primary season, a highly unusual surge, including 500,000 just in California and Texas.

    The biggest buzz centered around who most of the new voters were: not new U.S. citizens as expected, but American-born people under 30. That demographic is notoriously difficult to reach but makes up three-quarters of the Hispanic community’s 8 million eligible but unregistered voters, according to Antonio Gonzalez of the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project in Los Angeles.

    "I was shocked by the increase in young new voters," Gonzalez said. "They’re typically the hardest to reach."

    Gonzalez said he had expected that newly naturalized, older Hispanics would make up the bulk of new voters. But government delays in processing more than 1 million pending naturalization applications had jeopardized the chances of significantly boosting those numbers.

    The new-voter mobilization campaign would target largely younger voters through 125 organizing committees in California, Texas and 10 other states, Gonzalez said.

    Several young people who attended the forum in Los Angeles said they were moved to register to vote for the first time by Democrat Barack Obama, the plummeting economy, current immigration policies and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

    Omar Cruz, a student at the University of Texas in El Paso, said the election is the talk of the campus. He likes Obama. Valerie Simone also a college student in El Paso, said she plans to vote for Republican John McCain because she believes that he would be more fiscally responsible.

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    anyone, registering an illegal should be facing jail time and any illegal attempting to register to vote should should also face jail before they are deported. the law is the law. this proves they are called 'illegals' because once you break one law then the next one is even easier. this pattern will/is leading to anarchy.

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