Immigration and Voting

This week’s discussion was on the Republican candidates for the Presidential election. We touched upon the stance hopefuls have taken on healthcare, contraception, and economy. But the issue that stood out to me most was that concerning immigration and the Latino community.

As we know, immigration has been a hot topic for the candidates since, like what was said in class, immigrants make up a great population of US residents. Apparently, they also make up a lot of the votes in the upcoming election. Although about 21million of the 50million Hispanics are registered to vote, only 12 million are speculated to vote (http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2012/03/06/for-latinos-immigration-more-personal-than-political-poll-says/?vgnextrefresh=1).

So, my question is, would it be better to get more of the 21million to vote? By doing so, we will have a better representation of who the Hispanic and Latino community believe is the best applicant. From what I’ve learned from Statistics, voting is often biased and unfair since those who are more likely to vote are those who have strong opinions. Is that to say that majority of Hispanics have no opinion? No. To me, this means that the nominees and President Obama are not doing as good as a job reaching out to everyone and every potential voter to make sure they are well informed to make a decision.

Also, in such as bad economy, who would want to come to the US when people are not willing to hire workers, notwithstanding the low wages?

To end, I would like to ask isn’t what makes us American how we act and live? So it is fair to deport families that have greatly assimilated into American culture or families with children going to public school?