I look forward to leveraging the momentum of Aspen Latinos and exploring novel approaches and partnerships that meet our current moment and position U.S. Latinos to thrive and lead in the new economy.” – Francisco J. Sanchez Contact: Lizette Olmos Godfrey The Aspen Institute lizette.olmosgodfrey@aspeninstitute.org Washington, DC, January 25, 2024– Former U.S. Under Secretary of
jon: we just told but the dream act that would allow an easier path to citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants who go to college or serve in the military in this country. we heard from the representative steve king who is opposed to getting that legislation through in the lame-duck session of congress. will there is another side. let s talk about it with lizette olmos, national communications director for league of united latin american citizens. lizette, there are plenty people fired up about the unemployment situation in this country. they say now is not the time to be bringing in more citizens from other places. we need to get jobs for our own people first. your response? yes. that is important, jobs is number one issue along with the economy. and a lot of the children that are here, we have millions of students that through no fault of their
latino votes by getting this thing through or at least, voting for it in one house of congress and then using it as an issue against republicans the next time around. your take? well, we saw is that in the election, the latino vote is important and both the democrats and republicans catered to the latino vote. we saw a massive turnout of latino voters from the 2006 elections. we saw republican latinos getting elected by large latino voters, same thing with democratic candidates. so they both realize that they the vote is critical and that latinos are important and that they would support the dream act. jon: lizette olmos, from the league of united latin american citizens. thanks. thank you. patti ann: gordon lightfoot wrote a song about it, the sinking of the edmund fitzgerald on lake superior 35 years ago but to this day it remain as mystery why the ship and her crew were sent to their watery graves. lauren grind zones joins us