Stranger
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“the stigma of illegality”: Roberto Suro, Strangers Among Us: Latino Lives in a Changing America (New York: Vintage Books, 1998), 9.
eight million could be subject to deportation: Brian Bennett, “Not Just ‘Bad Hombres’: Trump Is Targeting Up to 8 Million People for Deportation,” Los Angeles Times, February 4, 2017, http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-deportations-20170204-story.html.
OBAMA: DEPORTER IN CHIEF
Obama earned the title “deporter in chief”: Janet Murguía, “NCLR 2014 Capital Awards Speech: President’s Message,” UnidosUSblog, UnidosUS, March 4, 2014, http://blog.unidosus.org/2014/03/04/nclr-2014-capital-awards-speech-presidents-message/.
2,749,706 people were deported: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Fiscal Year 2016 ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Report (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 2017), 2, figure 1, https://www.ice.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Report/2016/removal-stats-2016.pdf; also see https://www.ice.gov/removal-statistics/2016.
“an immigration bill that I strongly support”: Lukas Pleva, “No Big Push in First Year,” The Obameter (blog), PolitiFact, August 13, 2010, http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/promise/525/introduce-comprehensive-immigration-bill-first-yea/.
“what happened that first year?”: Fusion, “Why Didn’t Obama Present Immigration Reform in His First Term? Rahm Emanuel Answers,” Splinter, November 6, 2013, https://splinternews.com/why-didn-t-obama-present-immigration-reform-in-his-firs-1793840037.
“Obama didn’t move on immigration reform”: “Jorge Ramos Interviews Janet Napolitano (Nov. 2013),” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36p3FiUVMbQ.
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals: Jeffrey S. Passel and Mark Hugo Lopez, Up to 1.7 Million Unauthorized Immigrant Youth May Benefit from New Deportation Rules (Washington, D.C.: Pew Research Center, August 14, 2012), 3, http://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2012/12/unauthroized_immigrant_youth_update.pdf; see also http://www.pewhispanic.org/2012/08/14/up-to-1-7-million-unauthorized-immigrant-youth-may-benefit-from-new-deportation-rules/.
“why did you deport two million people?”: “TRANSCRIPT: President Obama Speaks to Jorge Ramos,” Fusion, December 9, 2014, https://wearefusion.tumblr.com/post/104812486184/transcript-president-obama-speaks-to-jorge-ramos.
58 percent of all deportees: Fiscal Year 2016 ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Report, 2, 4, 11.
300,000 had committed a felony: Chishti and Mittelstadt, Unauthorized Immigrants with Criminal Convictions.
Obama deported 409,849: Corey Dade, “Obama Administration Deported Record 1.5 Million People,” It’s All Politics (Washington, D.C.: National Public Radio, December 24, 2012), https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2012/12/24/167970002/obama-administration-deported-record-1-5-million-people.
240,000 in his final year of governance: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Fiscal Year 2016 ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Report, 11.
Obama won 67 and 71 percent of the Latino vote: Cindy Y. Rodriguez, “Latino Vote Key to Obama’s Re-election,” CNNPolitics, November 9, 2012, http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/09/politics/latino-vote-key-election/index.html.
Trump garnered only 29 percent: Roberto Suro, “Here’s What Happened with the Latino Vote,” New York Times, November 9, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/opinion/election-night-2016/heres-what-happened-with-the-latino-vote.
OUR 2016 MISTAKE
27.3 million Latinos…Latino voters are millennials: Jens Manuel Krogstad, Mark Hugo Lopez, Gustavo López, Jeffrey S. Passel, and Eileen Patten, Millennials Make Up Almost Half of Latino Eligible Voters in 2016; Youth, Naturalizations Drive Number of Hispanic Eligible Voters to Record 27.3 Million (Washington, D.C.: Pew Research Center, January 2016), 4, http://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2016/01/PH_2016.01.19_Latino-Voters_FINAL.pdf; see also http://www.pewhispanic.org/2016/01/19/millennials-make-up-almost-half-of-latino-eligible-voters-in-2016/.
only 47.6 percent…Many Latinos complain: Jens Manuel Krogstad and Mark Hugo Lopez, Black Voter Turnout Fell in 2016, Even as a Record Number of Americans Cast Ballots (Washington, D.C.: Pew Research Center, May 12, 2017), http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/05/12/black-voter-turnout-fell-in-2016-even-as-a-record-number-of-americans-cast-ballots/.
September 2015 Washington Post/ABC News poll: Washington Post/ABC News poll, August 26–30, 2015, http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/politics/washington-post-abc-news-poll-august-26-30-2015/1811/; Aaron Blake, “Why Jeb Bush Could Be the GOP’s Key to the Latino Vote,” Washington Post, September 2, 2015, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/09/02/in-bush-and-trump-the-gop-faces-two-opposite-paths-on-minority-outreach/?utm_term=.3c827ae4aafa.
September 2016 Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll: Carrie Dann, “Poll: 78 Percent of Latinos Have Negative View of Donald Trump, NBC News,” September 22, 2016, https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/poll-78-percent-latinos-have-negative-view-donald-trump-n652311; Hart Research Associates/Public Opinion Strategies, Study #16804, September 2016, https://www.scribd.com/document/324857651/16804-NBCWSJ-Telemundo-September-Hispanic-Oversample-Final.
John McCain earned 31 percent in 2008: Lopez, The Hispanic Vote in the 2008 Election, i.
Mitt Romney’s support dropped: Lopez and Taylor, Latino Voters in the 2012 Election, 4.
George W. Bush gained: For the 2000 election: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, How Groups Voted in 2000 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University, 2000), https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/polls/us-elections/how-groups-voted/how-groups-voted-2000/. For the 2004 election: Roberto Suro, Richard Fry, and Jeffrey Passel, Hispanics and the 2004 Election: Population, Electorate, and Voters (Washington, D.C.: Pew Research Center, June 27, 2005), 12, http://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/reports/48.pdf; see also http://www.pewhispanic.org/2005/06/27/iv-how-latinos-voted-in-2004/.
29 percent of Latinos: Suro, “Here’s What Happened with the Latino Vote.”
3,640,000 Hispanics: Mark Hugo Lopez, “The November Election,” The 2016 Election and the Latino Vote (Washington, D.C.: Pew Research Center, 2016), 12, http://www.ncsl.org/documents/taskforces/lopez_NCSL_dec_2016.pdf.
two-thirds of the Latino vote: Leslie Sanchez, “Don’t Pigeonhole Hispanic Voters,” CNN, October 8, 2010, http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/10/08/sanchez.hispanic.voters/index.html; see also Mark Hugo Lopez, Latinos and the 2010 Elections: Strong Support for Democrats; Weak Voter Motivation (Washington, D.C.: Pew Research Center), ii, 5, http://www.pewhispanic.org/files/reports/127.pdf.
Bush won more than 40 percent: Sanchez, “Don’t Pigeonhole Hispanic Voters.”
“Latinos are Republican”: Ed O’Keefe, “Top Latino Republican says, ‘Farewell, My Grand Old Party,’ ” Washington Post, June 22, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/06/22/top-latino-republican-says-farewell-my-grand-old-party/?utm_term=.3a7dab743e5c; Cathy Booth Thomas, “Lionel Sosa,” Time, August 22, 2005, http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/printout/0,29239,2008201_2008200_2008222,00.html.
Hispanics tend to be very conservative…reaching out to Latino voters: Paul Taylor, Mark Hugo Lopez, Jessica Martínez, and Gabriel Velasco, “Executive Summary,” When Labels Don’t Fit: Hispanics and Their Views of Identity (Washington, D.C.: Pew Research Center, April 4, 2012), http://www.pewhispanic.org/2012/04/04/when-labels-dont-fit-hispanics-and-their-views-of-identity/.
an “autopsy report”: Republican National Committee, Growth & Opportunity Project, March 2013, 8, https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/623664/republican-national-committe
es-growth-and.pdf.
FEAR AND DREAMERS
allow undocumented immigrants to remain: Sara Kehaulani Goo, What Americans Want to Do about Illegal Immigration (Washington, D.C.: Pew Research Center, August 24, 2015), http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/08/24/what-americans-want-to-do-about-illegal-immigration/; Mark Hensch, “Poll: Most Support Path to Legal Status for Illegal Immigrants,” The Hill, March 17, 2017, http://thehill.com/homenews/news/324435-poll-most-say-citizenship-path-top-immigration-priority; Karlyn Bowman, “Reading the Polls: Welcome to America? What Americans Say About Immigration,” Forbes, February 14, 2017, https://www.forbes.com/sites/bowmanmarsico/2017/02/14/reading-the-polls-welcome-to-america-what-americans-say-about-immigration/#1a84c0224e6f.
2015 was particularly violent…Mexicans are killed and nothing happens: Antonio Zambrano: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/23/us/pasco-washington-police-antonio-zambrano-montes.html?_r=0. Rubén García: http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/18/us/texas-police-shooting-immigrant-killed/index.html. Ernesto Canepa: http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2015/03/05/deadly-police-shooting-in-santa-ana-draws-mexican-governments-attention/.
LATINOS: THE STRUGGLE TO DEFINE OURSELVES
9.6 million Latinos were born in the United States: Antonio Flores, Facts on U.S. Latinos, 2015: Statistical Portrait of Hispanics in the United States, Key Charts (Washington, D.C.: Pew Research Center, September 18, 2017), http://www.pewhispanic.org/2017/09/18/facts-on-u-s-latinos/.
35 percent of U.S. Hispanics: Ana Gonzalez-Barrera and Mark Hugo Lopez, A Demographic Portrait of Mexican-Origin Hispanics in the United States (Washington, D.C.: Pew Research Center, May 1, 2013), http://www.pewhispanic.org/2013/05/01/a-demographic-portrait-of-mexican-origin-hispanics-in-the-united-states/.
three out of four Latinos still speak Spanish: Jens Manuel Krogstad, Rise in English Proficiency among U.S. Hispanics Is Driven by the Young (Washington, D.C.: Pew Research Center, April 20, 2016), http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/04/20/rise-in-english-proficiency-among-u-s-hispanics-is-driven-by-the-young/.
television in English: Taylor, Lopez, Martínez, and Velasco, “Language Use among Latinos,” When Labels Don’t Fit, http://www.pewhispanic.org/2012/04/04/iv-language-use-among-latinos/.
get their news solely in English: Mark Hugo Lopez and Ana Gonzalez-Barrera, A Growing Share of Latinos Get Their News in English (Washington, D.C.: Pew Research Center, July 23, 2013 ), http://www.pewhispanic.org/2013/07/23/a-growing-share-of-latinos-get-their-news-in-english/.
a fascinating study: Taylor, Lopez, Martínez, and Velasco, “Executive Summary,” When Labels Don’t Fit.
“post-Hispanic Hispanics”: Zev Chafets, “The Post-Hispanic Hispanic Politician,” New York Times Magazine, May 6, 2010, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/09/magazine/09Mayor-t.html.
“Latinos are not on a straight track”: Suro, Strangers Among Us, 70.
BEING AN IMMIGRANT IN THE TRUMP ERA
“somebody speaking in an accent”: Terry Gross, “Trevor Noah Says He Grew Up ‘in the Shadow of a Giant’ (His Mom),” Fresh Air (Washington, D.C.: National Public Radio, November 22, 2016), https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=503009220.
“a cluster of flowing currents”: Edward Said, Out of Place (New York: Vintage Books, 2000), 295.
“They have to go”: Alexandra Jaffe, “Donald Trump: Undocumented Immigrants ‘Have to Go,’ ” Meet the Press, NBC News, August 16, 2015, https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/donald-trump-undocumented-immigrants-have-go-n410501.
“get them out so fast that your head would spin”: Sopan Deb, “Trump Would Take 2 Years to Deport Millions of Undocumented Immigrants,” CBS News, September 11, 2015, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-it-would-take-up-to-2-years-to-deport-millions-of-undocumented/.
ON AMPHIBIANS AND TRANSLATORS
“the moment I realized I was different”: Sandra Cisneros, A House of My Own: Stories from My Life (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015), 125.
Esperanza, the protagonist of her famous novel: Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street (Houston: Arte Público Press, 1984).
WHEN TO STOP BEING NEUTRAL
“Objectivity is seeing the world as it is”: Brent Cunningham, “Re-thinking Objectivity,” Columbia Journalism Review 42, no. 2 (July–August 2003), 24, http://archives.cjr.org/feature/rethinking_objectivity.php.
Wiesel’s 1986 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech: Elie Wiesel—Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway, December 10, 1986, https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1986/wiesel-acceptance_en.html.
Walter Cronkite…once said on NPR: Walter Cronkite, “Civil Rights Era Almost Split CBS News Operation,” All Things Considered (Washington, D.C.: National Public Radio, May 30, 2005), https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4672765.
2017 TED Talk in Vancouver: Jorge Ramos, “Why Journalists Have an Obligation to Challenge Power,” TED2017, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2017, https://www.ted.com/talks/jorge_ramos_why_journalists_have_an_obligation_to_challenge_power/transcript?language=en.
IT’S JUST TELEVISION, THAT’S ALL
Morley Safer: “60 Minutes’ Morley Safer Retires after 46 Seasons,” CBS News, May 11, 2016, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-morley-safer-retires-after-46-seasons/.
Massacre in Mexico: Elena Poniatowska, Massacre in Mexico (New York: Viking Press, 1975).
murdered in Mexico: Freedom House, Freedom of the Press 2017—Mexico (Washington, D.C.: Freedom House, November 1, 2017), http://www.refworld.org/docid/59fc67d84.html.
Jorge Ramos
STRANGER
Jorge Ramos is an Emmy Award–winning journalist and syndicated columnist. Hailed by Time magazine as one of “the 25 most influential Hispanics in the United States,” Ramos is the host of America with Jorge Ramos, a weekly show, and Al Punto, a Sunday-morning public-affairs show, both on Fusion.
Among his many recognitions, he received the Gabriel García Márquez Journalism Award in 2017 for excellence in journalism from the Knight Center for Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. Ramos was also a Columbia University School of Journalism Maria Moors Cabot Prize winner in 2001 and has won eight Emmy Awards for his work as a journalist. He was honored in 2002 with the Ruben Salazar Award for Communications by UnidosUS (formerly the National Council of La Raza) for his positive portrayal of Latinos. In 2008, the Commonwealth Club of California recognized him with the Distinguished Citizen Award for being one of the outstanding individuals who embody the American Dream as an immigrant to the United States.
He writes a weekly column for more than forty newspapers in the United States and Latin America and provides three daily radio commentaries for the Univision Radio network.
Born in Mexico City, Ramos is an immigrant. He came to the United States as a student in 1983. In November 1986, at age twenty-eight, he became one of the youngest national news anchors in the history of American television. Since then, he has been called “the voice of the voiceless” for other immigrants like him.
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