2012

This year’s election will be one of the most interesting elections in history.  This election won’t only make history within the American citizens but also with the Latino immigrants.  According to the New Yorker, they have said that last years election in 2008, Obama win because of the Latino community.  However, this year both candidates Obama and Romney are striving for the Latino community votes.  This is because immigration is a big subject in America, even though the immigrants cannot vote they still have family members who are citizens and can vote for the president that is willing to give documents to the immigrants who live here in the United States.  For example, I have very close family members that have been here since a very young age; they even graduated from the U.S.A middle school and high school system.  Even though, they have been receiving their education here it’s very hard to receive higher education without documents.  Even though, I’m a citizen and I do have the privilege to get a higher education.  I still think of my family members that are not documented and this really affects on whom I will vote for. 

            Obama since he become president has been working on enforcing a bill that will give certain immigrate students the right to live, work, and attend university in the states.   On the other hand Romney, on the start of his campaign was not so willing to work with the immigrants, however, after doing a few interviews he does not really mention whether or not he is willing to work with them.  According to an article on CNN, Romney was questions about his comment he made; he stated that he was willing to give residency to immigrants who are in the military.   Then Romney was asked what would happen to the immigrants who are not in the military. He said he will not deport millions of immigrants but he also never answered whether they would receive documents.

            This election is making me realize how one without a certain paper or title can make a deference, if one analyzes the biggest issues that these presidents are trying to fix are the economy and immigration.   It’s breath-taking noticing that immigrants have such a big affect on this election.  They do not have the right to vote but yet still this election is being really affected by them as if they did have a vote.   Who would have ever thought back in history that immigrants would have made such a big difference in a election for the United States even more the Latino immigrants.  We all just have to wait and see how the Latino community will do with this years vote.