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Why We Cannot Afford to Waste Another Vote


We must be diligently


researching candidates now so there will not be any surprises later. We can use sites like factcheck.org to determine when a candidate is being less than candid. Even when reading news articles or watching news reports on television about candidates, you have to consider the source or resource. Not all publications or networks report the news in an unbiased manner.


We need to think about some of BY ANGELA JONES It is no longer just a question of


having the right to vote, today, more than ever, we have to make sure that when we vote, we vote for a candidate who truly has our best interest at heart. We have to look deeper than the surface of who a candidate appears to


be.


When a candidate speaks, we have to read between the lines to determine if they really care about our community.


Some people running for office


may represent special interest groups; however, they are not going to get up on a stage during a debate and profess, “I am getting donations from a special interest group and I plan to act on their behalf when I am elected.”


Not every candidate running for


office will have the courage to stand up to groups who threaten to expose embarrassing secrets about them. By now, anyone who has not watched the television show Scandal, at least knows the story line. Politicians, like a lot of people, can get involved in scandalous situations. Not many politicians would have the gall of Bill Clinton, who held his head up high while he was literally being exposed. Most would have bowed out as gracefully as possible under the circumstances.


the presidential elections from the past. Remember the personas of the same candidates who are running for president of the United States now. One candidate in particular is behaving like a totally different person. The mainstream media is also treating him as if he is someone different. The same candidate who was a laughing stock the last time he ran for President is suddenly a frontrunner in this race. We have to ask ourselves, “Why?”


The people still have the power


to elect honorable candidates; we just have to separate the insincere candidates from the genuine ones. We


transpired


have to remember what in


the has last seven years


and vote as if our very lives depend on it. According to The Guardian newspaper, thirty-two percent of African Americans killed by police in 2015 were unarmed.


Today’s statistics on African


Americans coupled with the fact that our ancestors worked so diligently to ensure our right to vote should make us feel a sense of duty to protect that right and to protect all of the strides African Americans have made since the days of slavery. We have to ask ourselves, “If Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. were alive today, for whom would they tell us to vote?” Furthermore,


we should always


remember that if we do not feel that there is a suitable candidate on the ballot, we can always throw our hat in the ring.


Volume 10 Number 2


October 2015


Asian Immigrants Likely to Overtake Hispanics in US Population


BY ALLYSON ESCOBAR


ACCORDING to a new report by the Pew Research Center, Asians are on track to become the largest population of immigrants in the United States.


The study


released on Monday, Sept. 28 also mentioned that the share of new Hispanic arrivals is smaller than it was 50 years ago, and that the percentage of the whole US immigrant population was higher in 1890 than it is today.


By 2065, Pew projects that there


will be 441 million people living in the US, and 88 percent of that growth will be attributed to future immigrants and their children. Asians are expected to outnumber Hispanics, making up 38 percent of all immigrants.


entitled “Modern Immigration Wave Brings 59 Million Population


Through 2065”–provides “nonpartisan analysis


that


Growth and Change explores


trends and


projects the future,” and comes 50 years after the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, CNN reported. The act took away a quota system that once favored European immigrants, and replaced it with a policy that looked toward reuniting immigrant families and providing necessary employees.


Since the act’s passage, about


51 percent of immigrants have come to the US from Latin America, and a quarter of new immigrants have come from Asia.


The US currently holds the largest


immigrant population in the world– today, about 14 percent of the nation’s population


are immigrants, Pew Research but that


number is expected to rise to at least 18 percent, projected.


Center


Of the current largest immigrant groups, Hispanics made up 4 percent of the total U.S. population in 1965. Today, they make up 18 percent, and by 2065, that figure is projected to be 24 percent. Asians, meanwhile, were less than 1 percent of the total population 50 years ago–today, their


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went up to 6 percent in 2015, and they are expected to meet 14 percent by 2065.


Earlier data from the Migrant


Policy Institute revealed Asians have one of the highest naturalization rates in the country. While only 47 percent of all immigrants in the country are naturalized,


the Breaking number for Asian


immigrants is considerably higher, at 59 percent.


it down by Asian


subgroups, data found that Vietnamese and Taiwanese immigrants have the highest naturalization


percent and 74 percent, respectively. Data reveals 59 percent of Koreans, 51 percent of Chinese, 47 percent of Indians, and 68 percent of Filipinos are naturalized.


rates at 76


The nearly 130-page document– to US, Driving


As of 2013, 1.26 million Filipinos are US naturalized citizens; 43,489 of whom were naturalized that year. Today, the total Asian population in the United States amounts to over 18 million — nearly 18 times more than 1.5 million in 1970.


percent of US immigrants, immigration from Latin American countries generally


slowed, especially from


Mexico. “A steep decline began in 2007, in


part because of the Great Recession,” Mark Lopez, director


of Hispanic


research for Pew, explained. “It became more difficult to cross the border and to demographic changes in Mexico with fewer young people wanting to head north.”


Lzpez, who oversaw this


study, says the steady rise of Asian immigrants has “bubbled up” over the past decade, noting Chinese citizens who have flocked to the United States for


educational opportunities like


graduate school. He also mentioned the great influx of Indians arriving on visas to work in high tech, taking jobs in Silicon Valley.


Of newer immigrants from the


past five years, more have come from Asia (2.5 million) than from Central and South America (1.7 million).


According to Pew, the US will no longer have a “majority group” within four decades. By 2065, Hispanics are expected to make up 31 percent of immigrants, the study predicts. Asians will later outnumber Hispanics to make up 38 percent of immigrants.


“On one hand, US citizenship


offers more security than let’s say, permanent resident status, which can be lost or revoked in some instances. In addition, to having the right to vote and having the ability to run for political office, US citizens can sponsor a wider range of family members — they can bring children, spouses and parents quicker than what’s allowed for the lawful permanent residents,” commented Jeanne Batalova, a senior policy researcher at the Migration Policy Institute.


Becoming a citizen is “a very


important step for the Asian American community because it allows them to become more integrated in America,” said Jannette Diep, executive director of Boat People SOS-Houston, in a press call back in June. “This integration allows the AAPI community to become more visible in US cities, increasingly getting elected to public office. Some immigrants never thought they would become a US citizen and have the right to vote in their lifetimes.”


Though Hispanics make up 47 has


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