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For Matt Barreto, co-founder of Latino Decisions, the key lies in the unprecedented turnout of Latino voters in 2020. “I estimate 16.5 million Latinos voted. That’s much more than the nearly 13 million who voted in (the presidential elections of) 2016,” he stated (Also: La Conexion USA and Alianza News).
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“[These] groups have proven themselves to be an extremely consequential voting bloc by showing up to the polls in increasing numbers,” says Sonja Diaz, the founding executive director of the Latino Policy and Politics Institute at UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs.
“You can’t plant strawberries in your front room. You can’t stay at home and be a farmworker. Hence, because they’re more exposed, they’re more likely to become infected,” said Dr. David E. Hayes-Bautista, director of the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture at UCLA. “Now, at that point, the Latino doctor shortage…
“It’s a false choice and it’s not good for democracy, and it masks the historical exclusion of both communities in the Senate,” said Sonja Diaz, founding director of the Latino Policy and Politics Institute at UCLA (Also: MSN News, Yahoo News, The Fresno Bee, The Washington Post, and Associated Press).
UCLA law professor Laura E. Gómez said the Court’s dismissal on a lawsuit surrounding the Trump administration’s attempt to exclude unauthorized immigrants from the once-in-a-decade census count should be considered a victory for California. “It is, I think, the best outcome that was possible … given the conservative majority on the Court,” Gómez said.
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