A show you some examples. How did this become an important issue, this is a famous picture, who knows what this is. Los angeles immigration rally. Excellent job. Must be one of your students. In 2065 and 600,000 people rallying against hr 33 seven. Eventually they turned into thousand 10, the momentum continued. This was an app put together by republican candidate in nevada. Racializing the immigration issue, harry reid responded by leaning in very forcefully on the issue of bringing the panel together again. Now with maria was former reed staffer and campaigning with louise on behalf of immigrant rights. That puts us at the forefront it , it all came together with dock. Thats how how got on the issue. I would be remiss not to mention it. But then we have these pictures. Anyone read the shirts . Obama deep ports parents. Thats what we say about emotion, this is an issue people are passionate about you dont see rallies about this about changing the tax code. So this was in 2013 and 13 and 2014 after the election that obama won. He said the continue pressor, they she stayed in the spotlight and obama came and gave another speech in the east wing. He passes what is now known as adopt the dap pa. In november 2014 if you are latino democrat you had a 64 of approving the president. Party identification should be driving the way you view the president. If you did not care about again this was more important and im model then Party Identification with the president s position on on these issues. The immigration issue has not been resolved, deportations are continuing, reference made to this earlier. The fifth circuit is split and put it on hold so candidates are waning. Were hearing the president ial candidates talk about it at the Republican Debate on thursday. All of the candidates talked about how they would be repealing it including rubio he said i dont know how much more clear it can be about this. They used his previous statements in spanish. He will repeal it on the first day. Now the Supreme Court has agreed to take this up. Were going to have a decision in the summer of 2016. In the heat of the election people, the court will tell us whether these parents are eligible for deportation or whether they can stand have work permits. And then of course we have trump. Let me conclude with a forecast of 2016 and then well take questions and comments towards the end. This is a comparison to 2012 and 2015. In pink is what latinos think about the Republican Party when romney was the nominee. Romneys major problem was people thought he did not care. 56 of latino said romney doesnt care. Now when we we asked the same question, november of 2015 these people have transitioned down here to now think in the Republican Party is hostile towards latinos. Romney which prompted the autopsy reflection, we need to do better was because he was pushing a huge percentage of people here. Now theyre pushing them down here into dangerous territory. This is the the last thing to show you. We are on the verge possibly of one of the largest latino turnouts in american history, not just because of what was said earlier butter demographics getting bigger, because the emotion thats involved this year. It takes two ingredients, ingredients, takes anger which i talked about earlier and we saw that this site. Does does trump statements make you more favorable, less favorable to the gop. Then it takes something to vote for. Something to vote in favor of. You dont just shop and vote, you cast, you cast your ballot for a candidate, youre not just going and getting counted. We think theres an alignment here if clinton commits to renewing and go forward more latino say they will be enthusiastic. I think it creates an opportunity. Well have to wait and see what the civic groups to in terms of continuing. A rich opportunity for latinos. Thank you. I will will yield the rest of my time to my colleagues. Thank you mac. Now to bring up maria. My name is maria i like to mention that im here on a nonpartisan capacity. At a glance and matt already read us through an important numbers where we have always centered our strategies and our work the latinos have been around for 11 years in the forefront of our work has been the young latinos. Young latinos on average the median age is 27. A lot of lot of our young people are finally aging into the electorate and we need, we was known we need to find them where they are. Largely englishlanguage and online. Thats what what i will run you through and how we locate young latinos and whites important. Why and much of what we say and send resonate differently than a partisan message. Also i should also add that young latinos for the first time are going to make up nearly half of the latino electorates. A lot of folks are commenting on that now. Young latinos where they can ago, we tend we tend to have a higher share, so were going to tell you our best moc is opportunity. We have ice been very strong on digital, our presidency when were starting out its a great way to reach young people. Weve learned over learned over the years its been an effective way to mobilize young people. Young latinos are early adapters, frequent users and no other communities are catching up. Certainly we have been at the forefront of digital use. Our influence on mine, you can read the numbers yourself, one of the things when people look at this you say will so what . What is a matter that latino have a Strong Influence online. Because young latinos we realize that the mobilization doesnt stop there. The mobilization what we start here, we start the conversation here that we take it to the ground. Were saying hey, young latina in nevada or colorado, we need you to go and register voters in texas. We need you to register voters in nevada, we need you to shop to a rally where hosting because theres anti immigrant xenophobia going on. We can largely turn our audience online and get them on the ground somewhere within 24 hours. Weve done that with after the Latin Grammys when they put down the banner that said latinos will not vote for races. We turn that around in a day to get young people in texas to register photos. Its just one example of why we are strong be all glory could translate to votes on the ground. This is our key target states for the 2016 race. Race. Will be doing Voter Engagement programs which is college campuses, music festivals, concerts. Will also be a southwest unveiling one of our new porter apps that is mostly for field organizers. We are really excited about it and about going into training my political training is from nevada. Nevada is going to be a Large Community for us. We also think its important to be in states where perhaps theres not battleground states. Maybe theyre not getting as much love from the campaigns like california or texas. We think its important to be in those deep rooted longstanding latino communities as well. Because of nevada and i play favorites we have 328,000 eligible. More than a third are young latinos. Want to not only uplift the work of local partners and young people therell already but also uplift young latinos were not at the table, and immigration is huge motivator and a prime motivator for most of our families. We still see a dropoff drop off in Voter Mobilization efforts. We want to look at who are the young latinos that are not be moved by the message of immigration or the tragedy of the broken system. How do we get them to get engaged. Our ideas are largely centered through cultural and artistic touch points so that when you are at a concert in san antonio and you walk by our table and you see our literature, again its with the young latino at the forefront. We just lost a concert partnership because we know young people and their families will go to our concert. We want were really part of this partnership and glad that shes involved. Were going to be a really different artist throughout the year. Were going to be standing sending out some College Programs and well continue our Marketing Leadership and development which is through our Leadership Conference that brings Industry Leaders in all areas, not just advocacy but tech, business, academic, and others. There is my contact information. Also just want to say and im happy to take questions, i want to share with your work because i think its important. I come from electoral politics before this so i say that with that in mind that unless you have leaders that are oneoff, really empowering our community there is no way that we are going to build longterm latino political infrastructure if not for other longstanding organizations that have done incredible work. So we invite you to learn about our work, join us, im happy to be here [applause]. Thank you maria. Lets bring up our final speaker. Hello everybody. The funny thing youll notice, this is if youre paying attention that matt and i have worked together for so long that we use the same generic powerpoint. [laughter] format. I was laughing when i saw his covers lie. On a couple of quick things. I agree with maria, matt covered a lot of stuff so it gives me the freedom to go into other things. Heres one thing that is interesting, latinos in 2012 made headlines and he saw some of those from matts article, there is a slew of those headlines, even the noisiest headline came from the republican side, the need to embark on any strategy, figure out how to bring latinos into the party. So the ironic thing about where latinos find themselves in 2016 is even though we finally got funded to understand the role that latinos play in the american political landscape, parties understand that these voters are a factor in the winning equation for the white house and a growing number of state and local need races. In the philanthropic world, the political world people understand the importance of Voter Registration. One of the ironies is that if you look at the strategy of the republican side it does not seem like they have the memo. If you look at the level of investment in actually getting Voter Registration to Virtual Community youd also think in the Philanthropic Community are people who are engaging that space, they also dont get that now. Among Latino Organization there is a sense that the ledger books reflect that. Theres less and investment on latino Voter Registration going on right now. There was on previous years. Im not saying only latinos are the ones that you latino Voter Registration but i think having an understanding with the community is important to some. I would say its also important to anybody who really believes in for the people, and by the people, should include with the people. Not just going to the people. So anyway with all of that as maria mentioned, the organization that we do not have a bone in the partisan fight other than our candidate is the latino voter because we believe bringing more latino voters into the state could potentially help regrow the middle ground that is needed to make forward progress on a lot of policy issue, that is what were trying to do, were trying to be as creative as we can. I do want to address a little about what democrats and republicans are doing in terms of this electorate. I think in many ways that summarizes it, i think this electorate was on 2012 is 12 is the best electric the gop is going to see if they remain on its current track. For democrats, while the Republican Party in many ways have ceded the ground, democrats have not necessarily moved in full force to try to seal the deal. In some ways latinas continue to see being bypassed by one party or by being neglected by another. Even though thats not the rule, but what are some of the reasons this happens . I think think with the Latino Community as with any good story people want to oversimplify to such an extent that often times we use things that are partially true to try to solidify or cements a big misconception. One of the examples is that in the political world, for many years and you can see some of that today when a candidate goes to speak the advice would be you can talk about immigration, thats the issue you have to talk about and thats it. It used to be also include things like bilingual education and things like that. If you you look at the polls for at least last 20 years you would see the top issues have consistently tended to be the economy and education. But then what happened, then someone from the other side would say oh that means latinos do not care about immigration therefore whatever your position on immigration it doesnt matter, just talk about the economy which would also be wrong. And you saw mass very statistically sound modeling on that issue. So i think one of the reasons why you are seeing Bernie Sanders message gain traction is because hes talking about an issue that is incredibly important to the Latino Community. Also because on immigration there is less daylight between the candidates on the democratic side. On the other hands on the republican side, even if you had the most brilliant 100 latino support, messaging and narrative latinos have learned to see immigration as a proxy for how the candidate speaking about that issue regards their community. Lets face it whenever we hear the toxic narrative on immigration it tends to be thin veneer to see anxiety about the Latino Community. It makes sense that latinos by the same token interpreted that way. Perhaps even though every election season we end up putting the same point forward it would be useful if it leaves the basics got settled. That i would say is that latinos care about the economy and education. But but immigration is a defining, energizing issue. The vast majority of latinos are actually United States citizens. Of those under 18 is about 18 who are United States citizens. So for some people who make feel that immigration and closing the wall is going to prevents latino growth in the United States, the statistics would say otherwise. We do have a number of issues that create a potential for unity and how we interpret candidates and parties. We do not believe that demography is destiny, thats why were doing the work we do. Lastly because it beat keeps coming in the context of reviewing crews let me make it absolutely clear for the record, cruz and rubio are latino. Not i dont think any latino are going to dispute that, i think the problem is that someone interpreted that differently. The latino does not community make it nor do you have to be latino to be part of the community. The last thing i would say which i think sometime democratics would like to believe an anti immigrant forces in the Republican Party there is no democratic gene in the latino dna. The biggest determinant of how a latino vote, voter votes is you are talking about republicans is what republicans do, latino voters want a choice. I would say that republicans are their own worst enemy and democrats best friend. We hope that that changes. Those are the main thanks, matt has gone over the numbers but i think that one of the numbers, even though people continue to talk about whether the number of latinos is small or big is that between 2,002,012, the number of latinos casting a ballot grew by 89 . Compared to 38 for africanamericans that decreases 2 for white voters. In is that growth rate that has people paying attention. Obviously obviously we talked about a number of people that are eligible to vote but to note specifically to register, Voter Registration continues to be an essential element to fill the magnitude of latino voters. Theres sometimes too much data. What im trying to show is that we go into 2016, latinos are going to be essentials in a number of battleground states and you all know what those are. Last but not least, the formula to a mock support from a voter is not rocket science. Unique candidates matter and those candidates building a relationship with that community and ease within that community. The issues matter, so today have skin in the game and munich full outreach is essential. Folks have mentioned that its a perfect playbook for the candidate of any candidate to try to gain latino support the same way in colorado would be an example of what not to do, or what not to neglect. So last but not least, i would say for our part to really unlock that potential we are trying to make sure that yes people are registered and they show up on election day but its really about what happens the day after is swelling and who is going to hold those electives accountable so the policies they advance continue to get the community to feel that something gives. Going back to that quote. To do that one of the things as maria said were trying a lot of Different Things, in 2012 we ran ran the largest nonpartisan Voter Registration operation in florida, we are getting it ready and starting it next week we are doing a number of Different Things because we have a big pool of voters, we need to figure out how to get to our breakthrough point. We are working with High School Pilot project because many of our kids are still not going to college and we want to make sure they have enough time to register. The couple of other tests, operator assisted assisted molecules as well as online, you heard about latinos who are millennials you know that we are young community. We are also also going to be a large or segments of generation comes next, whatever it is called millennial twopoint oh or whatever. To meet people where they are we created Voter Registration app so we can bring it to our hands to make sure that people have a chance to express their voice for which whichever party convinces them. [applause]. I like to express solidarity with two of our presenters with the notion that once you find a powerpoint scheme that works you stick to it. It makes a lot of se