you may have hearse the phrase the future is latina, joining me now is a familiar thing, journalist marianna is on set with me, marianna atencio, we have a fellow latino and msnbc the fabulous maria kumar and our friends at c nbc reporter bertha coombs is joining us as well. i m so happy to have you ladies. i m so happy are you on set with me. from miami, florida. you look amazing. i think have you such a unique story, i think when we talk about the lived experience of the latino community in this country, it s down trodden. it s sad, it centers on immigration. that s not the complete lived experience. you have an amazing story here. what s the best part? we are vibrant. we are colorful as you said. that is what i want us to focus on is the continue bewks of our community in this country. i left my home country of
every other state you have a rising in latino youth. that s why when you talk about the freedom to vote act, why that would be so important. it creates a national voter registration day. it allows people to be a part of the system immediately. i love what i do, tiffany, we register voters at scale. we register them at the margins. this should be a government function. the moment you turn 18-years-old, the moment you should be automatically registered to vote. then the parties can compete for your vote. the polarization about access to the voting booth, very much lies about demographic lies. the next presidential, will you have 12 million more youth voters, two-thirds are kids of color. we have to make sure this new generation, multi-cultural generation of americans have equal access to the voting booth so they can drive the 21st century into what america s values really are. maria, i think you raised such a good point about the parties competing for tr vote.
making, asking if you got loans, look for a job, there are more jobs now that are offering the ability to help pay off their loans or offering the ability to give you access to college, even, you know, hourly jobs at target and walmart. they are offering that access for free. those are some of the things to take advantage of and, as you know, maria noted, the majority of latinos are younger. so we re talking kids who were born here, they don t have the language problems as much. so they are coming up and they re coming up into the system and getting education and getting ahead. so they have that ability to do that. when you talk about those of us who are older, lot of folks work in service jobs or they work for example in healthcare. they re working as home attendants. you don t get paid as much as you do to be a nurse practitioner, which requires more education? right. so that s where the gap is going to start getting made up.
tiffany, you get a let procedure the president, himself. wow. and mine read, dear fellow american, no matter where you come from, now you share the sacred rights, duties and responsibilities that unite us as one people. and when i read that, i m like, this isn t new to me. this is the essence of being latin x in america. excellent. maria, you and i have shared the screen many times and i remember you really speaking about power of the latino voting block. i think it s interesting, 70% of latinos are u.s.-born and account for over half the nation s population growth in the last decade. that is a hugely powerful voting block. now i do want to point out, the la the no voters eclipsed black voters, not necessarily in terms of registered voters. what do you think it will take to get more latino voters to increase their already increasing voting power? first of all, watching that clip of naturalization for