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Guilty to a murder charge and is awaiting trial, has refused to return to his cell. >> hes upset because the hispanic inmates think hes black. hes saying hes not. hes saying hes hispanic. they dont want to program with him, so he wants out of there, and this is his way of doing it. we dont know whats going to happen once we get inside there. we dont know what the other inmates are going to do. when you go inside there, watch each others back. handle any situation that arises. our job is not to r...

Themselves from hard loin ine a make themselves inclusive in the population. hispanic voters are able to differentiate between people, they were able to, for example, give a much higher percentage of the latino vote in texas in 2012 during the republican candidates than to mitt romney for example. so they do distinguish between are you for solving this problem or against solving this problem. but it is-long-term this is a real problem for republicans. also however in the short term a problem for...

Fees to the union that represents home care workers in the state. roughly half of all states including illinois to pay fair share fees to the union to cover the cost of negotiating better wages and benefits. these fees prevent workers from free riding, getting a bump in earnings, enjoying the union does in their behalf without paying for the cost of the negotiations. on monday for the first time the court says these home care workers cant be compelled to pay collective bargaining fees. home care...

Democratic. thats the green. the hispanic centers, all that green west of the mississippi river, are mostly in rural places that tend to vote republican. in 2012, the president won the big city counties, which represented 73 million people, 23% of them foreign born and he won those by 31 points. he also won the urban suburbs, those close-in suburbs that have a foreign-born population of 17%. he won those by 16 points. but in the hispanic centers, counties that are 56% hispanic on average, romney...

Describe to me who is somebody who is undocumented or an illegal alien or undocumented immigrant, what do you start thinking? yeah. >> im not trying to be racist. but like, hispanic, people, just in that area? >> yeah. >> thats just from my perspective. i know there are a bunch of others but i get that mindset. >> yeah. we all know the day laborers who hang out on el camino. they are looking for jobs outside of home depot. theyre not the only people who are undocumented. so im going to tell you ...

Texas state senator wendy davis laced up her pink sneakers and filibustered for 11 hours in an effort to stop legislation limiting access to abortion clinics in the state. two weeks after that filibuster the bill passed in a special session. but it did rocket wendy davis to national prominence. soon she found herself drafted by democrats into this years race for governor. its an open seat race with perry leaving office after 14 years. on friday just two nights ago, davis formally accepted her pa...

Impossible. this is about ten million people in this country and their status, but politically, carol, were talking about the election this fall could be impacted by this lack of immigration reform. you can bet democrats are ready to push the issue in some key districts like in arizona where theres some big fights and one democrat i talk to said if immigration doesnt pass before the president leaves office, they think it helps them regain the white house in 2016. some republicans say maybe there...

Run. the hispanic vote has grown and become democratic. george bush made the biggest in-roads for republicans when he got 44% of the hispanic votes though he trailed john kerry. in 2008 barack obama won 67% to mccains 31. in 2012, president obama got a whopping 71% of the hispanic vote to just 27% from mitt romney. republican strategist and former presidential campaign manager steve schmidt put the problem bluntly. >> the math doesnt work now for republicans. >> thats a good point. >> in state t...

Change for this district. he was first elected to this seat in 1970. he has served 22 terms in congress. he has said that this campaign would be his last campaign. but he has also said he very muches wants the next two years in washington. at the same time, senator espaillat has certainly been mounting his own fight. he is more well-known than two years ago. so he has cheyne gained some ground. well also know the demographics simply seem to support espaillat in a number of ways. when charlie ran...

The neighborhood who are not wanting change, who are somehow opposed to so-called gentrification of the neighborhood, or the progression of the neighborhood. right now harlem is the demographics are changing to more hispanic, and also more white, which means that as eric cantor could not take his district for granted, charlie rangel cannot take his district for granted as well because he can no longer rely on that vote that he thought was so reliable even one year ago. >> were going watch this r...