California Candidates Scapegoat Immigrants, Ignore Blacks
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Send to friendBy Elena Shore
New America Media
New America Media
California voters are going to the polls for the primaries today, and San Francisco is embarking on the Secure Communities program, in which fingerprints collected at local jails are shared with immigration authorities. Both events are getting flak from Spanish-language media.
The GOP gubernatorial candidate’s race is getting “nasty,” according to an editorial last week in La Opinión, as Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner essentially compete to see who is more anti-immigrant.
“Demagoguery and bigotry have replaced reason,” the editorial argues. Editors of La Opinión write that they are “deeply upset” that the Republican race has been characterized by what they see as “the debasement of political debate and malice