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Matt Barreto in The New York Times: “Latino Voters Moved Toward Republicans. Now Biden Wants Them Back.”

“When you have a group that is so new, so big and is growing at such high rates, it requires constant conversation,” said Matt Barreto, a Democratic pollster who has focused on Latino voters for decades and is involved in the Building Back Together efforts.

Arturo Vargas Bustamante in Associated Press: “Health care for older immigrants sees momentum among states”

Immigrants are more likely to remain in the U.S. compared with two decades ago, according to Arturo Vargas Bustamante, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles’ Fielding School of Public Health. According to a July study he co-wrote, immigrants’ median age increased from 37 to 45 between 2000 and 2018.

Laura Gómez in Boston Globe: “Stoking fears of immigrants has been part of the Republican platform for decades. But something is different this time”

“We are just in this moment now where everyone is trying to figure out how far to the right, how far into white nationalism can the GOP go and still maintain a sense of legitimacy,” said Laura Gómez, a law professor at the University of California who has written on race, Latino voters, and immigration…

Latino Policy and Politics Institute (LPPI) in Los Angeles Times: “Op-Ed: Democrats should seize this recall as a practice round for the midterms”

At the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute, our research indicates that in the 20 years leading up to the 2022 midterm elections, there will have been a 126% increase of Latino registered voters and a 94% increase of Asian American voters. They are more likely than white voters to be undecided about the recall…

Sonja Diaz in Spectrum News 1: “Sonja Diaz Interview with Spectrum News One”

UCLA LPPI’s Founding Director, Sonja Diaz, discusses with Spectrum News One the rationale behind the federal ruling the deemed DACA unlawful, the ramifications of the ruling for California’s 200,000+ DACA recipients, how this decision could influence Latino voters in the mid-terms, and what Latino voters expect from the Biden Administration and Democrats in the wake…

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