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Voters cast their ballots during the first day of early voting in Nevada at the East Las Vegas Community Center polling station October 20, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Early voting continues in the battleground state of Nevada until November 2 with election day on November 6. (Photo by David Becker/Getty Images)

Opinion: Perception, not voting power, is the Republicans’ Hispanic challenge

By Esther J. Cepeda

CHICAGO -- The U.S. Census Bureau released its November voting data and one thing is clear: The so-called Latino Sleeping Giant is still snoozing -- fewer than … Read More

Grover Norquist, a conservative tax activist and president of Americans for Tax Reform, right, testifies in favor of immigration reform legislation during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, April 22, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Opinion: Grover Norquist is now an amnesty-loving immigration activist

By Julio Ricardo Varela

It took about four hours of C-SPAN video to get to the headline acts at yesterday's Senate Judiciary Committee immigration hearing in Washington, D.C. Gaby … Read More

Demonstrators stand behind a sign for President Barack Obama as they participate in a rally for immigration reform on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 10, 2013, where tens of thousands of immigrants and their supporters were expected to rally for immigration reform.

Obama has a chance to come through on promise of immigration reform

By Erica Werner, Associated Press

The issue: There's nearly unanimous, bipartisan agreement that the nation's immigration laws need fixing more than a quarter-century after the last … Read More

Los Angeles Antonio Villaraigosa leaves a legacy as a powerful political force.

LA unlikely to elect another Latino mayor as ethnic lines become less visible

By Michael R. Blood, Associated Press

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The election that made Antonio Villaraigosa the city's first Hispanic mayor since 1872 confirmed the clout of a fast-growing Latino … Read More

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Deep Dive: Losing Latino voters

By MSNBC Daily Rundown

The Daily Rundown’s Chuck Todd takes a “deep dive” into why Hispanic candidates are having trouble winning over heavily Latino districts. Nathan Gonzales, … Read More

In this Jan. 28, 2013, photo, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., right, and Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., left, join a bipartisan group of leading senators to announce that they have reached agreement on the principles of sweeping legislation to rewrite the nation's immigration laws. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Republicans scramble for the center on immigration

By Nicholas Riccardi, Associated Press

LITTLETON, Colo. (AP) -- It was little surprise when freshman Rep. Mike Coffman in 2010 voted against a bill to grant citizenship to some young undocumented … Read More

People wait in line to enter the Supreme Court in Washington, Monday, Oct. 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Scholars ask Supreme Court to preserve Voting Rights Act

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With the Supreme Court hearing on the voting rights case out of Shelby County, Alabama less than a month away, the debate  on the controversial Voting Rights … Read More

Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla. is part of a group of House members working on a proposal for immigration reform. (AP Photo/Jeffrey M. Boan, File)

House members negotiate proposal on immigration reform

By Erica Werner, Associated Press

WASHINGTON -- A group of a half-dozen House members, equally divided between Democrats and Republicans, is nearing completion of wide-ranging immigration … Read More

In this Jan. 14, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama gestures speaks during his final news conference of his first term in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama launches push for immigration reform

By Julia Pace, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Seeking swift action on immigration, President Barack Obama on Tuesday will try to rally public support behind his proposals for giving … Read More

A sign during a demonstration as the city of San Diego joins the push for immigration reform.

City of San Diego joins push for federal immigration reform

By Diana Guevara, KNSD, San Diego, California

The City of San Diego is joining the push for federal immigration reform. Mayor Bob Filner joined a local group of immigration activists on Tuesday to fix what … Read More