1. DNC Chair targets Latinos
2. Rep. may run for mayor
3. SB1070 case not dismissed
4. Report: U.S. more generous
5. Illegals brace for arrest

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Latino vote 'critical' to Democrats in 2010, DNC Chair Tim Kaine says
By Richard Dunham
San Francisco Chronicle, October 12, 2010

Turning out Latino voters on Nov. 2 is vital to Democratic success in the midterm elections, Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine said today.

In a telephone interview, Kaine said "it is critical" for Democrats to mobilize Hispanic voters from California to Florida.

"We will have a strong margin among Latino voters," he said. "Our challenge is to have a strong turnout."

Polls have shown that Hispanic voters, unlike most other Americans, remain strongly supportive of President Obama. But Democrats worry that the turnout levels among Latinos will drop, threatening Democratic candidates in close races such as California Sen. Barbara Boxer and Jerry Brown the party's nominee for governor.

Kaine, a former Central American missionary who is fluent in Spanish, has been barnstorming across the country since Labor Day in an attempt to fire up the Democratic base. At a recent campaign stop in El Paso, Texas, he conducted a Spanish-language press conference.

"We're making the case to Latino voters that there are differences between the parties," Kaine said.

The former Virginia governor said the president's economic stimulus package and health-reform law resonate with most Hispanic voters while Republicans "are pledging to repeal it."
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/nov05election/detail?entry_id=74316#...

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Report: Rep. Gutierrez to decide on mayoral bid this week
By Jordan Fabian
The Hill (Washington, D.C.), October 12, 2010

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Gutierrez could serve as a foil to the front-runner Emanuel among Hispanic voters in the Windy City. The congressman polled well among that group and has long served as a voice for comprehensive immigration reform in the lower chamber, sometimes sparring with the Obama White House for not acting to push legislation.
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http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/123769-rep-gutierrez-to...

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Arizona immigration law: Judge denies bid to stop lawsuit
By Michael Kiefer
The Arizona Republic, October 12, 2010

A federal judge has denied motions by Gov. Jan Brewer, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the tough Arizona immigration law referred to as Senate Bill 1070.

U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton issued a detailed ruling Friday allowing the lawsuit to go forward. In her ruling, Bolton found that the plaintiffs, led by the Phoenix advocacy group Friendly House and the American Civil Liberties Union, had standing to bring the lawsuit and that the moment was "ripe" to do so.

And she found merit in their arguments that portions of the controversial law may violate the Fourth and 14th amendments of the U.S. Constitution. The Fourth Amendment prohibits unreasonable search and seizure; the 14th Amendment includes the "equal protection clause," which forbids unequal treatment for different classes of people or racial discrimination.

Bolton also wrote that the plaintiffs had cause to believe their rights could be jeopardized by portions of the law.

The plaintiffs - the ACLU, Friendly House and several other advocacy groups and labor unions - also requested an injunction against the law. Bolton judged that issue as moot because a stay has been in effect since July in a separate lawsuit brought against SB 1070 by the U.S. Department of Justice. There will be a hearing regarding that stay in San Francisco on Nov. 1 before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Bolton commented in her ruling that the Fourth Amendment issues were so great that she might have issued a stay on those grounds.
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http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/2010/10/12/20101...

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Report Shows That U.S. Bucks Worldwide Trend In Immigration Policies
Personal Liberty Digest, October 12, 2010

Research of global immigration laws has revealed that the United States is an exception to a worldwide trend of tighter policies. A report from a legal policy analyst states that the U.S. is one of only 30 countries in the world that grants automatic birthright citizenship for children of illegal immigrants.

Jon Feere of the Center for Immigration Studies authored the report Birthright Citizenship: A Global Comparison, which focused on the American policy that grants automatic birthright citizenship. Feere discovered that the U.S. and Canada are the only countries with advanced economies that offer birthright citizenship.

The report also states that the Citizenship Clause in the 14th Amendment was never intended to benefit illegal aliens.
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http://www.personalliberty.com/news/report-shows-that-u-s-bucks-worldwid...

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Illegal immigrants draft legal plans in case of deportation
By Alan Gomez
USA Today, October 12, 2010

Illegal immigrants nervous about stronger enforcement have started drawing up legal documents to spell out what they want to happen to their families and belongings if they are deported.

Attorneys in New Mexico, Arizona and Texas say illegal immigrants began approaching them for help preparing the documents as the national debate over immigration heated up in recent months.

"There's a culture of fear out there," says Jason Mills, a Fort Worth immigration attorney who was not asked for such help until this year.

Cecilia Menjívar, an Arizona State University sociology professor, says immigrant families started preparing informal plans in 2006, when Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were conducting raids at work sites.

Children were stranded at school when parents were arrested at work, she says. If workers were caught on the street, relatives didn't know how to phone their employers. Wives couldn't get access to detained husbands' bank accounts. Menjívar says families began discussing who would care for children and preparing emergency lists: "People usually have the firefighters or police on that list, but in this case, it's people who can take care of the kids, the number of employers."

Mills says several things sent illegal immigrants to lawyers this year. Congress has failed to act on legislation that would legalize the status of some of the country's 11 million illegal immigrants. The Obama administration has increased deportations — a record 392,000 people in the past 12 months.

Most striking, Mills says, was the debate that followed passage of Arizona's immigration law, now on hold. It required police with reasonable suspicion to check the immigration status of someone stopped for another reason. It prompted more than a dozen other states to consider similar laws.
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-10-12-1Adeportplans12_ST_N.htm