Forum Post: Obama Wins Re-election!
Posted 12 years ago on Oct. 6, 2012, 11:54 a.m. EST by agkaiser
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JORGE RAMOS: --Arizona being the model, self-deportation, rejecting the DREAM Act and—
BILL MOYERS: What does it mean, self-deportation?
JORGE RAMOS: Make life impossible--
BILL MOYERS: How so?
MARÍA ELENA SALINAS: It's like they're doing in Arizona. They make life so difficult for you. You can't find a job, you can't. If possible you can't get housing. Your children as they go to school will have their background checked and you will just go back because you can't live here, you can't get a job, you can't live, you feel all this pressure. I think that's what he means by self deport.
JORGE RAMOS: Arizona being the model, self-deportation, rejecting the Dream Act and now you see the latest Latino decisions poll, 73 percent support President Barack Obama and only 21 percent support Mitt Romney. And if there's a magic number it's 33 percent.
MARÍA ELENA SALINAS: 33-38 percent is what a Republican needs to win. So I guess basically we could say that it--
BILL MOYERS: Of the Hispanic vote?
MARÍA ELENA SALINAS: Of the Hispanic vote. So if it's--
JORGE RAMOS: Or they lose, they lose the White House.
MARÍA ELENA SALINAS: So if it's true that the Latino vote will decide the election then I guess right now--
JORGE RAMOS: It's been decided
MARÍA ELENA SALINAS: We can say that President Obama is going to win reelection.
http://billmoyers.com/segment/jorge-ramos-and-maria-elena-salinas-on-the-rise-of-hispanic-america/
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