let clarissa martinez-de-castro have a chance to respond. guest: the latino commanded the is a multiracial -- the latino community is a multiracial community. we embody some of the opportunities and challeges the community faces. we see a great deal of alignment with the african-american community because we are afflicted by many of the same challenges and with other communities as well. we think that is the character of the hispanic electorate, we tend to reject extremes and we tend to reject taking rights away from others.

an example is the issue of abortion. we believe expanding the hispanic electorate could be part of a stabilizing force in american politics. i think a lot of people are worried about the state of polarization in our country. i am always sorry when any of us have an interaction with an individual, we need to all learn and also give each other praise so that hopefully, one bad apple does not paint our whole perspective of the community. host: what's another example of a position alignment with the african-americans? guest: policing, i think we all want to see safe policing. where are communities are not unfairly targeted or racially profiled. we have both been shown to be

disproportionately subjected to the search and seizures for example. without due cause and to more by police. those reforms are really important for both communities. the area of voting, both communities continue to strengthen, certainly the black community has been at this for a long time. making sure the the path to the voting booth is open and accessible. i can name a series of areas where latinos have worked with the urban league, naacp on education initiatives and economic and health initiatives as well. host: this is joel, a republican. caller: ok thank you.

we have a vice president that went to korea to visit their border but will not visit our southern border here in the usa. 55 years ago i returned from overseas with my bride and i had to jump through hoops to return her here. i even had to sign paperwork that she would not become a burden to this country. the united states of america, that meant she would not be entitled to any government, social program, i am trying to say. that was 55 years ago and we had to come the correct way. it is up to our government to control how, when and where to

enter this country. it is not through the southern border. in most of the hispanic people that have come here at the correct way, they do not approve of the way that this is being handled. the taxpayers are being overburdened, the ones that pay taxes are being over prudent by the school taxes, teachers don't have the proper equipment to teach the hispanics that are coming here. we just created a problem. they are coming from 27 or more countries. host: let me stop you there and give you a chance to jump in. guest: first of all, i want to agree with him that you have to jump through all these hoops when you are trying to use the legal immigration system which is why we say it should be streamlined so that people who are trying to come in legally

don't have to jump through all those hoops. the ones he mentioned are still in place. i think we need checks and balances in that system but i want to assure him that everything he talked about is still in place. i know a couple who has been married for two years that has been waiting for half that time for the visa to be able to bring their spouse over. that is still in place. having to prove that someone is not going to be a public burden, that is still in place. there is also some misconception. there are points of entry at the border. we are seeing many people do that. we want those points of entry to function. let me talk about a couple of things that have come up in indicates -- i want folks walk

away remembering this. latinos in our country are united states citizens. they are not coming in undocumented. they are united states citizens. we care about the issue of immigration for two reasons. one, many of us have friends and family that are immigrants. and two, when the immigration comes toxic, if they are having mixed emotions and having anxiety about immigrants we tend to feel it even know we are united states citizens. we want to balance the system that can restore the rule of law to the system and that includes legality, not just on the border but in the system as well. host: this is john, and

independent. caller: good morning sir. i have never called before but this is been something i always wondered. i would like to ask ms. castro. when i first started paying attention to the immigration coverage, i grew up in the projects. when the immigrants first started coming, latinos, we called them the new black people because they took the pressure off of us for a while. now, what i want to ask is, why do the latinos vote republican win all the social programs the democrats make it possible for them to be able to receive medicare, medical, health, social programs and whatever. and the republicans but against all of that.

but yet, the latinos vote republican. i don't understand. guest: i have heard republican say why don't more latinos vote republican? again, historically, we continue to see that today. about two thirds of latinos as we show in this research, their values are more aligned with democrats. historically, about one third have tended to support republicans. there is a swing element within the hispanic electorate that has always been there as well. i think some of it has to do with people's individual thinking about different things. but it also has to do with what kind of outreach candidates have done. in modern days, that problem is

exacerbated with that threat of misinformation where we see a lot of times, efforts to obfuscate what a candidate stands for or the candidate may speak with one face to one community in a different phase to another community. i think we are a multiracial community and as such, there will be differences in who supports whom. it's also notable, while we are a diverse community, there continues to be a great affinity over top concerns that we believe the top officials should do something about. host: why latino voters here republican. we want to hear your thoughts

from clarissa martinez-de-castro . this was at the end of august. big government programs and the advocacy of socialist bernie sanders and alexandria alexandria ocasio-cortez seems to be driving the democratic agenda scare folks who are familiar with socialism. the disasters that are issued in by the elite vanguard of the proletariat. the unitary block in which they can prosper as they choose. guest: i think that is choose for the two thirds who tend to support democrats and the one third to support republicans. people value a place where they can work hard and get their family ahead.

we are a community that believes in hard work, family, faith and country. at the same time we believe that government has a responsibility and a role to play to make sure there is a level playing field so that if you work hard you can indeed get ahead. i think when politicians, and i have a great deal of respect for congresswoman leithan, it's pushing voters to extremes. i don't think the majority of our fellow voters would think all democrats are in that extreme she tries to paint. just like some don't believe the extremes that some republicans are painted. i think latinos can be a stabilizing force in politics. host: we're talking about the

latino vote in 2022. are those terms interchangeable? guest: unidosus was founded in 1968, through the reports we have done in this community we use latino and hispanic interchangeably because some people use latinx. for this community, the majority prefer the term hispanic. host: to philadelphia, this is matt waiting on our line for democrats. caller: thank you for taking my call, my question it might be silly. we have quite a few puerto ricans, who are citizens unable to vote.

i had a puerto rican secretary on my job for 20 years. in the 20 years she was my secretary, she never voted once. neither did her spouse, neither did her family members who i all new. knew. these are middle-class people who had good jobs. i used to say to her, why don't you vote? and she said, it doesn't make any difference. that is the problem i see here. what is the voter turnout for hispanics in this country? i think it is very low. inc. you. guest: that is a good point. a lot of people feel politics is not my thing or i am going to focus on the things i can do something about. host: in the latino community? guest: and other communities

too. part of the things we do with voter registration work, so many people you talk to say nobody ever talked to me about registering to vote. i cannot tell you how many people say that. we want to make sure the invitation is there. also the people who say politics is just not my thing to say if you want to go to school in your neighborhood or if you want good streets, guess what? politics is your thing and voting is not the only way to do it but we certainly should use that. in terms of voter turnout what i would say is that, we have a big registration opportunity gap. during presidential elections, registered voters actually vote eight out of 10 vote in the presidential election.

that is pretty good. now african-americans in some cycles have been nine out of 10 and white voters somewhere in between. where we have a gap is in registration. if we can get more people registered, during midterms all groups reduced participation. we saw latinos vote at near presidential levels and hopefully, we are hoping to do everything we can to continue that pattern. we agreed that we need more eligible americans registered to vote and certainly, i would love to see secretaries of state across the country, a measure of their performance is how many of the eligible voters in their state or registered to vote. host: do these numbers sound right to you for presidential turnout for the women's center

for justice website voter registration among white non-hispanic with 71%, among latinos 54%, does that sound right to you? guest: what i tend to look at is of the people who are eligible, what percentage of them? if you look at the latino adult population overall, it will include immigrants who are not yet citizens. if we look at the citizen population and adults who are registered, among the registered , right, for latinos who are registered to vote that is where eight out of 10 will vote. that is what tells me what i really need to focus on is how many latinos are not register and how can we make sure they are. host: one million latinos turn

18 each year. what is the pitch to the 18-year-old latino to get registered? guest: one thing we have seen and this is true for many different communities. our use is getting really involved in issues. a lot of young people are concerned about climate and what it would mean for when they come of age and their children come of age. and we are also seeing concerns about the polarization and how that is affecting the chances of solving problems. i think part of the pitch we often say is that this is not about politicians, it's not about them, it's about us. it is about our communities and making sure that civil society can hold politicians accountable to solve problems. i think that gives us more agency and puts things in the hands of the voter and of civil society rather than parties and

politicians. host: to wayne, olympia, washington on the republican line. caller: she is quite the politician. i have been living with spanish people, mexicans. i have been renting to them since 2000. i live with them, a whole community of them. they are quite hard workers. they really have no intent -- of being citizens. they just work hard. host: what do you mean by not becoming citizens?

caller: they work hard and they make babies and their babies become citizens. host: in your mind what is it mean to be a citizen? caller: they have a baby and it becomes a citizen. that is the way it is. a lot of them, they would come here and they would be pregnant and back then it was called anchor babies. guest: birthright citizenship has been a long-standing debate for some. i think it has been a matter of settled law for others. one of the things that has made america a successful multiracial

democratic experiment where you have countries where no matter how long people have been there they are never seen as part of the fabric of that country. that is not true of america. if you look at any group of immigrants. eight out of 10 are citizens, among those who are immigrants in this community weather is italian, german, you see the same pattern. by the second or third generation, they become integrated to the point that english is the only language you know and that pattern continues until today. we have seen that play out with every wave of immigrants. i think as a country we have a

tortured relationship with being proud of being a nation of immigrants and at times being baited with particular economic issues to look for a scapegoat. and politicians who don't want to be held accountable look to immigrants. does that mean we don't need to do anything on immigration? absolutely not. i think we have an outdated system. and hispanic americans are also supportive of seeing that overhaul happen. host: from st. louis, missouri. caller: i have been working with latinos for over 40 years but i'm ashamed to say my spanish is horrible. two major things that are driving latinos away from the democratic party are abortion,

the open borders. as the young lady says, you get all these illegals over you drive wages down. it was rainy out and we were all in the warehouse, about 200 latinos were in there and i asked, who wants to become an american citizen and half of them said no. if you were working in mexico which you become a mexican citizen? we just work here and we don't want american assistance. i respected that. guest: this is an area where there has been some misconception about this. i do want to talk about what issues people see but because we are a strong based family

community there is a general assumption they are against abortion. here's an interesting fact. 76% of hispanic voters said that regardless of their personal belief that they don't believe abortion should be legal and that right should be taken away from other people. that included 76% of latino catholics. that has been the case even before the roe v. wade case was overturned. it has just gone up after that decision and the reason why voters told us is because they are afraid of the effect that will have on women's lives. that little factoid there. the other thing i would say, on

the economy which is the overarching issue right now on inflation. what voters told us is that they think republicans may do a better job on the issue. economic issues tend to be one of the pull factors on the republican side. host: from jacksonville, florida, this is lawrence waiting on the line for democrats. caller: thank you for taking my call. as i listen to the program and i think of myself being retired military and coming up as a young black man in the projects i used to think that all white people are rich and i thought that for a long time until i was about 20, 25 years old.

until i learned better. being honest with you, white people had better chances. we black and brown people were tired of being at the bottom of the ladder. what did we try to do? we tried to assimilate. not only with their skin color, with her hair, the way we thought. who and how many black people or brown people that you have seen own businesses that could hire other blacks or other brown people? they went to the white businesses because those were the people they can give out jobs and would you align

yourself with someone who will pay you four dollars an hour weather than -- rather than one dollar an hour? that is why latinos align themselves with the republican party. in the states of america, the people that have the most power are the whites. you might see a latino with the house, a sprinkle of black people with the house. so what? your thoughts on that? guest: that disproportionate life experience up the caller was talking about is something we have all witnessed during the pandemic. we saw blacks and hispanics disproportionately impacted by the pandemic.

because of structural challenges in our health care system, because of inequality in our health care and economic system. i think that the pandemic in many ways exposed for many others so those cracks in the foundation. and how discrimination and racism have left some communities have worse outcomes in similar situations. what i am hoping is that a lot of the conversation that has emerged moves forward with addressing some of those structural inequalities. can you imagine what would happen if all of these workers that help to overcome the pandemic did not have to overcome the barriers in their full potential was unleashed.

that is why i keep going back to what drives me and drives unidos trying to get more eligible hispanics registered. right now, we could use all hands on back to stabilize and hold politicians accountable to advanced solutions. not just rhetoric that attempts to turn us against each other. host: mark in fort lauderdale, good morning. caller: hello, good morning. i consider myself lucky to get in on the tail end of the discussion. you listen to all these calls and things change as you listen. i wanted to address the statement from that collar, this statement from that collar. my wife is an immigrant, we got

her citizenship in the process was not all that terrible so it is worth going through it. what prompted my call is when you read a quote, when a cuban republican and south florida point fingers at democrats and say they are socialist. because the cubans came here from cuba under socialism but they got special privileges when they came to the u.s. until obama's administration. they got onto dry land, they were allowed to stay here and immediately their various documentation program started. the cuban community in this area

got every government benefit, they got section eight housing, medicaid, they got unemployment. a path to lead to future citizenship and becoming productive citizens. they were given a leg up and any discussion of latinos and hispanics, cuban should not factor into that experience of becoming american. the way to do things is, open the borders. we need people, we need workers, we need the vibrancy that immigrants bring to the country. set up a couple of places where they can go, register them, legalize them for work. let them go out of work. host: i want to give you a

chance to respond to the cuban americans immigration experience. guest: there are so many different things, he talked about his family. i think he is a slice of americana. families with diverse backgrounds, we all come under one roof. i think he is right, the immigration cubans came through differently originally. right now, things are different. the way that our asylum system works, when none of those channels are available is different. i think at some ways, the cuban-american experience proves that a system that is a supportive and welcoming system actually unleash in people's potential to the benefit of our country.

we could do that with the majority of immigrants that have been here for more than two decades now. i agree that we need a functional, legal system. i also agree that in our politics there is a lot of two-faced talking, trying to europe extreme thinking and antagonism and that is where a lot of voters feel like, i wanted to now. i would hope that everybody watching leaves with just at that moment when we want to say goodbye, that is when we have to say hello. we have an election coming up, if you are registered please vote. if you are not registered, you still have time and/or help eligible people to do so because this is the time when we need to hold our elected officials feet

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