Peggy (Dr. Margaret) Sands Orchowski Ph.D. has been the credentialed Congressional Correspondent for the Hispanic Outlook on Higher Education magazine in Washington DC since 2006. Her new book “The Law That Changed the Face of America: the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965” was published by Rowman & Littlefield in September in time for the 50th anniversary of its signing.
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Three of the nine “moderate” Democratic Congressmen who are flexing their muscles to block approval of the $3.5 trillion social infrastructure bill until the $1.2 trillion physical infrastructure is signed into law are all Hispanics
Hispanic enrollment fell by more than 5 percent during the fall 2020 semester amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Deborah Santiago, co-founder of Excelencia in Education that tracks student success in the nation’s designated Hispanic Serving Institutions.
The idea of ethnic equity in a president’s cabinet has long been a goal of progressive democrats who largely see minorities as representing monolithic backgrounds and liberal positions.
Almost nothing that occurred this year was predicted or polled correctly by D.C. pundits and pollsters, experts and VIPS both conservative and liberal. Certainly not the coronavirus pandemic and certainly not the election.
Whether or not to open schools during the COVID-19 crisis was still in question right up to late August.
A year out from the 2020 presidential election, surveys and think tanks in Washington, D.C., report that “while in general a majority of Hispanic voters support Democratic positions, there are a number of issues where there are meaningfully large numbers of Hispanics that prefer the Republican approach.”
by Margaret Orchowski
More than one in four Latino voters – 27 percent – told NPC News exit pollsters on midterm election day Nov. 6 that they voted in the midterm elections for the first time.
Conservative Students Look To “Take Back” Campuses From Liberals
