LATINO ACTION NETWORK - POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE ANNOUNCES ENDORSEMENT OF HILLARY CLINTON FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

 

LATINO ACTION NETWORK - POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE ANNOUNCES ENDORSEMENT OF HILLARY CLINTON FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

For Immediate Release: September 22, 2016

Christian Estevez, Chair, LAN-PAC – 973-418-7012

Javier Robles, LAN-PAC Member – 732-887-8722

 

Newark, NJ – The Latino Action Network - Political Action Committee [LAN-PAC] today announced its support for Hillary Clinton for President of the United States of America and urged Latinos to vote in the upcoming presidential election in November.

The Latino Action Network Political Action Committee was established in 2012 to promote candidates working on behalf of the issues of greatest importance to the Latino Community on the national level.  

Citing her extensive experience as a U.S. Senator (D-NY) and Secretary of State, Christian Estevez, Chair of LAN-PAC said that, “Hillary Clinton is the most qualified candidate running and we must do everything we can to elect her as our next President”.  

“Hillary Clinton has a realistic plan to create new jobs starting with a major initiative to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure that will put thousands to work right away”, continued Estevez.   “She has a balanced approach to taxes that will ask the wealthy to contribute more to help create opportunities for all through job development and education.  Her approach will particularly help Latinos who are struggling to become a vital part of the middle class.”

“The stakes could not be higher for Latinos in the United States given the hateful pronouncements being made on the campaign trail by the Republican nominee Donald Trump,” added Estevez. “Besides his preposterous promise to build a giant wall along the southern border with Mexico and his anti-Latino rhetoric, including his attacks against Mexican-American Judge Gonzalo Curiel, Donald Trump represents a real threat to Latino communities throughout the United States due to his support for racist and xenophobic policies like 287g and the creation of a ‘deportation Taskforce’”.

Estevez also cited the U.S. Supreme Court as a reason that Latinos must take this election seriously.  “With the current vacancy on our highest court and more potential vacancies to occur during the next term it is scary to think who Donald Trump would appoint”, said Estevez.  “If Trump were allowed to stack the U.S. Supreme Court with people that are as racist and hateful as he is, he could set back civil rights in this country by over 100 years.”

Javier Robles, who also serves on the board of the LAN-PACcautioned that low turnout in November amongst Latino voters could favor Trump. “It is imperative that Latinos register to vote and turn out in high numbers in November if we hope to have a president in the White House that we can work with to promote policies that embrace Latinos and other immigrant groups as integral to the success of our nation”, said Robles.  “A win for Trump would be disastrous for our community.”

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RED DE ACCIÓN LATINA - COMITÉ DE ACCIÓN POLÍTICA ANUNCIA SU RESPALDO DE HILLARY CLINTON PARA PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS

RED DE ACCIÓN LATINA - COMITÉ DE ACCIÓN POLÍTICA ANUNCIA SU RESPALDO DE HILLARY CLINTON PARA PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS

 

Para publicación inmediata: 22 de septiembre de 2016

Christian Estévez, presidente, LAN-PAC-973-418-7012

Javier Robles, miembro de LAN-PAC-732-887-8722

 

Newark, NJ – La Red de Acción Latina - Comité de Acción Política [LAN-PAC] hoy anunció su apoyo de Hillary Clinton para Presidente de los Estados Unidos e instó a los Latinos a votar en las próximas elecciones presidenciales en noviembre.

La Red de Acción Latina - Comité de Acción Política fue establecida en 2012 para promover a los candidatos que trabajan en nombre de los temas de mayor importancia para la comunidad Latina a nivel nacional.  

Citando su experiencia como senadora de los Estados Unidos (D-NY) y Secretaria de Estado, Christian Estévez, Presidente de LAN-PAC dice que, "Hillary Clinton es la candidata más calificado en esta elecion y que debemos hacer todo que lo posible para elegirla como nuestra próxima Presidente".  

"Hillary Clinton tiene un plan realista para crear nuevos puestos de trabajo a partir de una importante iniciativa para reconstruir nuestra infraestructura desmoronada que pondría a trabajar a miles de personas inmediatamente", continuó Estevez.   "Ella tiene un enfoque equilibrado a los impuestos que le pedirá los ricos a contribuir más para ayudar a crear oportunidades para todo por medio de desarrollo del trabajo y la educación.  Su enfoque ayudará en particular a los Latinos que luchan por convertirse en una parte vital de la clase media."

"La situación no podría ser más urgente para los Latinos en los Estados Unidos dado los pronunciamientos odioso realizados en la campaña electoral por el candidato republicano Donald Trump," agregó Estevez. "Además de su absurda promesa de construir un muro gigante en la frontera del sur con México y su retórica anti-Latino, incluyendo sus ataques contra el Mexico-americano juez Gonzalo Curiel, Donald Trump representa una amenaza real para las comunidades latinas en los Estados Unidos debido a su apoyo a las políticas racistas y xenófobas como 287g y la creación de una ‘fuerza de deportación'".

Estevez también citó la Corte Suprema como una razón por la que los Latinos deben tomar en serio esta elección.  "Con el puesto vacante en nuestro tribunal más alto y más vacantes potenciales a ocurrir durante la próxima periodo,  da miedo pensar cuales candidatos designaría a Donald Trump a la Corte Suprema”, dijo Estevez.  "Si se le permite a Donald Trumpmeter a personas tan racistas y odioso como el a la Corte Suprema de Estados Unidos, él podría retroceder los derechos civiles en este país por más de 100 años."

Javier Robles, quien también es miembro del Consejo de la LAN-PAC advirtió que baja participación en noviembre entre los votantes latinos podría favorecer Trump. "Es imperativo que los Latinos se registren para votar y resultar en altos números en noviembre si esperamos tener un Presidente en la Casa Blanca con la cual podemos trabajar para promover políticas que adoptan los Latinos y otros grupos de inmigrantes como parte integral del éxito de nuestra nación", dijo Robles.  "Un triunfo de Trump sería desastroso para nuestra comunidad".  

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Latino Action Network Denounces US Senate Defeat of Dream Act

The Latino Action Network [LAN] vowed today to work with other state and national organizations to defeat members of the United States Senate who voted against the Dream Act this weekend. [Read full Press Release Below]

Latino Action Network Denounces US Senate

Defeat of Dream Act

Calls on Latinos to Remember those who Voted Against It.

For Immediate Release: December 20, 2010

Contact:

Frank Argote-Freyre, President – 908-670-0552

Christian Estevez, Executive Vice President – 973-418-7012

Daniel Santo Pietro, Chair of Public Policy Committee – 732-496-9628

The Latino Action Network [LAN] vowed today to work with other state and national organizations to defeat members of the United States Senate who voted against the Dream Act this weekend. In the aftermath of the vote, the Network stressed the importance of passing in-state tuition in New Jersey to ensure that the children of undocumented immigrants have a chance to receive a university education and called on members of the State Legislature to pass the appropriate legislation in 2011.

The US Senate failed to overcome a filibuster that prevented a vote on the Dream Act by a 55-41 vote on Saturday. The measure was opposed by 36 Republicans and five Democrats.

“The names of the Senators that voted against the Dream Act should be emblazoned on the minds of Latinos across the United States every time they step in a voting booth,” said Frank Argote-Freyre, President of the LAN.  “A majority of the Senate was prepared to pass this critical civil rights measure that would have allowed hundreds of thousands of youths brought to this country by their parents without documentation an opportunity to contribute to America’s future by completing their higher education or military service and eventually acquire citizenship.”

  Daniel Santo Pietro, Chair of the Network’s Public Policy Committee stated, “It is a long tradition in Western law not to hold children responsible for the transgressions of their parents.  By denying these youths their basic civil rights, we deny ourselves future leaders, entrepreneurs and scientists that we need just to satisfy an anti-immigrant political agenda.  This is an intolerable situation that Latinos and other Americans of like mind must repudiate.

Both New Jersey Senators, Robert Menendez and Frank Lautenberg, were strong proponents and supporters of the Dream Act, but several New Jersey Representatives opposed it including, Rodney Frelinghuysen, Scott Garrett, Leonard Lance, Frank LoBiondo, and Christopher Smith.

            Christian Estevez, Executive Vice President of the LAN, summarized the current situation, “In the short term the New Jersey State Legislature has to step forward and at least enact the In-State Tuition bill that the State Senate narrowly declined to move forward last December.  All New Jersey college presidents should endorse this bill and other steps to support the youth left in limbo by the US Senate’s debacle. LAN efforts will be focused on organizing New Jersey’s students in support of in-state tuition in New Jersey and comprehensive immigration reform at the national level.

The LAN was founded in 2009 as a vehicle to mobilize the Latino community to seek greater social and economic justice. A list of the Senators who opposed the Dream Act will be placed on the LAN’s website and blog to remind its members of their vote.

US Senators Voting Against the Dream Act

Republicans:

Lamar Alexander of Tennessee

John Barrasso of Wyoming
Kit Bond of Missouri
Scott Brown of Massachusetts
Sam Brownback of Kansas
Richard Burr of North Carolina
Saxby Chambliss of Georgia
Tom Coburn of Oklahoma
Thad Cochran of Mississippi
Susan Collins of Maine
Bob Corker of Tennessee
John Cornyn of Texas
Mike Crapo of Idaho
Jim DeMint of South Carolina
John Ensign of Nevada
Michael Enzi of Wyoming
Lindsey Graham of South Carolina
Chuck Grassley of Iowa
Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas
James Inhofe of Oklahoma
Johnny Isakson of Georgia
Mike Johanns of Nebraska
Mark Kirk of Illinois
Jon Kyl of Arizona
George LeMieux of Florida
John McCain of Arizona
Mitch McConnell of Kentucky
James Risch of Idaho
Pat Roberts of Kansas
Jeff Sessions of Alabama
Richard Shelby of Alabama
Olympia Snowe of Maine
John Thune of South Dakota
David Vitter of Louisiana

George Voinovich of Ohio
Roger Wicker of Mississippi

Democrats:

Max Baucus of Montana

Kay Hagan of North Carolina
Ben Nelson of Nebraska
Mark Pryor of Arkansas
Jon Tester of Montana

Latino Action Network Applauds Latino Voters for Standing Up for Our Community on Election Day

The Latino Action Network applauds Latino voters throughout the United States for not falling for the campaign to suppress the Latino vote. Latinos voters stood up for the entire Latino community by showing up at the polls on Election Day, contributing to the defeat of anti-Latino candidates in states like Nevada. [Read full Press Release below]

Latino Action Network Applauds Latino Voters for Standing Up for Our Community on Election Day      

For Immediate Release: November 3, 2010

Christian Estevez, Executive Vice-President – 973-418-7012

The Latino Action Network applauds Latino voters throughout the United States for not falling for the campaign to suppress the Latino vote. Latinos voters stood up for the entire Latino community by showing up at the polls on Election Day, contributing to the defeat of anti-Latino candidates in states like Nevada.

Latino voters also showed great intelligence in places like Passaic County, New Jersey where they looked beyond the fact that the candidate for sheriff was Latino. The LAN takes note of the fact that Latino voters in Passaic County, New Jersey, rejected a candidate who expressed his support for the anti-immigrant, profiling laws passed earlier this year in Arizona.

The Latino Action Network supports efforts to increase the election of Latinos from all political parties.  However, we cannot support candidates who take positions that run counter to the interests of the Latino community. We are pleased to see that the Latino voters of Passaic County share these values and expressed them on Election Day.

The LAN was founded in 2009 as a vehicle to mobilize the Latino community to seek greater social and economic justice.

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For more information about Latino voting results, please visit the following websites:

Latino Decisions: Latino Election Eve Poll Results, November 2, 2010

http://latinodecisions.wordpress.com/2010/11/02/latino-election-eve-poll-results-november-2-2010/

New York Times: Senate Exit Polls 2010

http://elections.nytimes.com/2010/results/senate/exit-polls

Hispanic Evangelical Coalition Opposes Voter Suppression Efforts

Reverend Gabriel Salguero, a leading voice among Latino evangelicals across the nation and a member of the Latino Action Network [LAN] today issued the following statement in response to efforts to suppress the Latino vote.

Hispanic Evangelical Coalition Opposes Voter
Suppression Efforts

For Immediate Release: October 31, 2010

Reverend Gabriel Salguero, Steering Committee Member – 917-484-0179

Reverend Gabriel Salguero, a leading voice among Latino evangelicals across the nation and a member of the Latino Action Network [LAN] today issued the following statement in response to efforts to suppress the Latino vote. It is in response to a statement issued by Reverend Miguel Rivera of the National Coalition of Latino Clergy and Christian Leaders [CONLAMIC] urging Latinos to refrain from voting.

“Reverend Rivera is not representative of most of the Hispanic Evangelical national leadership,” said Reverend Salguero, a member of the Latino Leadership Circle. “On the contrary, Reverend Rivera represents a misguided religious leadership that will disenfranchise an important constituency just when it is coming of age.”

“The close to 9 million Latino Evangelicals should disregard this unwise counsel and go to the voting booths in unprecedented numbers,” Reverend Salguero concluded. “Many of us who have suffered from voter suppression in our countries of origin will not tolerate it here."

The LAN was founded in 2009 as a vehicle to mobilize the Latino community to seek greater social and economic justice.

Latino Action Network Urges Latinos to Cast Ballots on Tuesday; Ignore Those Seeking to Silence Them

The Latino Action Network today urged Latino voters throughout the nation to go to the polls on Tuesday and comply with their civic responsibility to elect the leaders of our country. The LAN urged Latinos to ignore those “who seek to silence us and remove us from participation in the political process.”

Latino Action Network Urges Latinos to Cast Ballots on Tuesday; Ignore Those Seeking to Silence Them

For Immediate Release: October 30, 2010

Frank Argote-Freyre, President – 908-670-0552

The Latino Action Network today urged Latino voters throughout the nation to go to the polls on Tuesday and comply with their civic responsibility to elect the leaders of our country. The LAN urged Latinos to ignore those “who seek to silence us and remove us from participation in the political process.”

LAN President Frank Argote-Freyre noted a growing effort by some to keep “Latinos silent and powerless.”

The latest efforts to suppress the Latino vote are spearheaded by Reverend Miguel Rivera, head of the National Coalition of Latino Clergy and Christian Leaders [CONLAMIC] working in conjunction Roberto de Posada of the Latinos for Reform organization.

“This is the latest irresponsible act on the part of Reverend Rivera, who seems committed to ensuring that Latinos have as little say as possible in the political process,” Argote-Freyre continued. “His effort to encourage a boycott of the Census earlier this year was a complete failure and we hope he will fail again in this latest effort.”

“It does not matter who Latinos support they should go out and vote on Tuesday and ignore the advice of people, like Reverend Rivera, who advocate an extremist agenda. Go to the polls and ignore Rivera and Posada.”

The LAN was founded in 2009 as a vehicle to mobilize the Latino community to seek greater social and economic justice.

Latino Action Network Denounces Comments by Garcia Campaign Favorable to Arizona-Style Profiling Laws

The Latino Action Network [LAN] today denounced statements made recently by the campaign of the Passaic County Republican Candidate for Sheriff Felix Garcia, which took a favorable position towards the Arizona-style racial profiling laws adopted over the summer. [Read full Press Release below]
    

Latino Action Network Denounces Comments by Garcia Campaign Favorable to Arizona-Style Profiling Laws

For Immediate Release: October 30, 2010

Christian Estevez, Executive Vice President – 973-418-7012
 
The Latino Action Network [LAN] today denounced statements made recently by the campaign of the Passaic County Republican Candidate for Sheriff Felix Garcia, which took a favorable position towards the Arizona-style racial profiling laws adopted over the summer.
 
Some of the most objectionable elements of that legislation have been placed on hold by a judge pending a federal lawsuit challenging them.
 
The LAN sought a clarification or retraction of the statement that appeared on a local blog recently, but the Garcia campaign declined. The statement made by Garcia Campaign Manager George Cole was as follows: “The Arizona reform comes from the people. Felix advocates people migrating to this country through a legal process. The Arizona people are enforcing the laws that were already present.”
 
Christian Estevez, Executive Vice President of the Latino Action Network, noted “the Garcia campaign has actively courted the Latino vote in Passaic County, while trying to also appeal to anti-immigrant elements in the electorate. The statements by Cole reflect a positive attitude towards a law that would racially profile individuals, specifically Latinos, and this is something we strongly oppose. The issue is of particular concern since Garcia is running for the top law enforcement position in Passaic County.”
 
Estevez concluded: “There is no place for racial or ethnic profiling in law enforcement and the statements by the Garcia campaign come close to endorsing those policies. Local law enforcement must work with local communities to maintain trust with them. The enforcement of immigration laws at a local level would break down those important lines of communication.”
 
The LAN sought a statement from the Democratic Campaign of Richard Berdnik and received the following from the campaign: “My parents were immigrants and law abiding citizens. My parents taught me first-hand the contributions that immigrants have made and continue to make to our country. While I am obligated to uphold the law, immigration is a federal issue.”
 
The LAN was founded in 2009 as a vehicle to mobilize the Latino community to seek greater social and economic justice.