Latino Voter Profile
‘I, Too, Sing America’
This is the second in an occasional series of profiles of individual Latino voters. The profiles are meant to provide a glimpse into the life and politics of a given individual. None of these individuals are meant to be stand-ins for a specific class of Hispanic voters. The format is “as told to” whereby the entire article consists of quotations from the person interviewed. This ensures the subject’s voice comes through loud and clear.
Today’s Latino Voter Profile is Dana Ramos who works as an executive assistant at an HSBC office in Nevada. Ramos was two years old when her mother took her from Mexico to Las Vegas. The entire interview was conducted in English on Saturday night following the Nevada Caucus.
As told to CandidatoUSA editor Luis Clemens by Dana Ramos:
“My mom came with a visa and luckily Immigration never asked for any of my paperwork or anything. I crossed the border and waved goodbye to the immigration officials.
“We’ve been here ever since. My family’s whole plan was to work here to take money back to Mexico but we ended up staying here. When my brother was born, my parents thought ‘maybe it would be good to stay so the children can learn English and then we’ll go back.’
“I didn’t become legalized until Ronald Reagan passed his amnesty, and if it wasn’t for him I still would have been illegal. Or undocumented I should say. I don’t like it when people say illegal.”
Tags: Latino voter
February 3, 2008 at 3:29 pm
In light of La Opinion’s endorsement of Obama, it’ll be interesting to see how Spanish-language media sources cover Super Tuesday. In fact, I just caught this annoucment about V-Me and ImpreMedia coverning Super Tuesday from 10 pm to 1 am here:
http://www.vmetv.com/_files/_official_pr/impremedia.pdf
February 9, 2008 at 7:19 pm
obama mi piace e forse rappresenta la novità nella politica USA.
la famiglia Kennedy dice che ricorda molto JFK.
auguri al presidente nero.
February 9, 2008 at 7:24 pm
I like obama, he is the prefer of kennedy family becouse he’s another JFK
February 11, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Another JFK!!!! Are you out of your mind or too young to even know JFK? Obama doesn’t have half the backbone or knowledge that JFK had. Obama would not be fit to shine JFKs shoes. Where you get such a bizarre comparison come from a bunch of media hype that created Obama in the first place. Had you even heard of Obama a year and a half ago? No, he is a media created empty suit with even an emptier resume.
February 22, 2008 at 10:21 pm
italian newspaper saya than obama is another kennedy, I don’t know obama. excuse-me for my incorrect english