High on the list of the issues that will top President Obama’s agenda in his new term is a push for effective immigration reform.
Latinos voted overwhelmingly for Obama in the 2012 election, casting 71 percent of the vote in favor of the President. Despite progress in curbing deportation and prioritizing education for immigrants during Obama’s first term, the Latino constituency among others will look to see that immigration reform is delivered more fully over the next four years.
Peter O’Dowd is the news director at KJZZ in Arizona and contributor to the Fronteras Desk. Congressman Luis Gutierrez is the Democratic representative to Illinois’s fourth district.