Latinos Are Worried About the Immigration Crisis, Says “LatinoLand” Author | Amanpour and Company

Published 2024-02-29
Immigration is a top issue in the 2024 presidential election, as Biden and Trump head to the Mexico border today. Marie Arana, who moved to the United States from Peru at age nine, is part of the diverse Latino community numbering 64 million people across the nation. In her new book "LatinoLand," Arana sheds light on the little-known history of Hispanic America. The author joins Michel Martin to discuss the impact of the Latino vote in the upcoming election.

Originally aired on February 29, 2024

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All Comments (21)
  • @sjg9887
    Thanks for covering this! I’m always impressed how little coverage there is of Latinos in the US media when they are such a big part of the population.
  • @glen30
    Wow, she didn't speak much about what the Spanish conquistadores did to the indigenous native populations.
  • "Sometimes I hear people saying nothing has changed, but for someone to grow up the way I grew up in the cotton fields of Alabama to now be serving in the United States Congress makes me want to tell them come walk in my shoes. 👞 Come walk in the shoes of those who were attacked by police dogs, fire hoses and nightsticks, arrested, and taken to jail." ~ John Lewis (1940-2020), American politician and last lieutenant of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 🕊
  • Definitely will get her book, thanks to the author and Ananpour and Company.
  • "The truth is rarely pure and never simple." ~ Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Irish poet and celebrated wit. 🍾
  • "Because of the Civil Rights movement, new doors of opportunity and education swung open for everybody...Not just for blacks and whites, but also women and Latinos; and Asians and Native Americans; and gay Americans and Americans with disability. They swung open for you, and they swung open for me. And that's why I'm standing here today - because of those efforts, because of that legacy." ~ Barack Obama, American lawyer, writer, politician, activist, humanitarian who received the Nobel Peace Prize, and served as the 44th president of the United States of America. 🇺🇸
  • "I have learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is to be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me." ~ Maya Angelou (1928-2014), American poet, writer, singer, actress, and activist.
  • @eddieavila1081
    That was one of the best discussions on immigration,undocumented immigrants,including a short history of Mexico,Mexicans,Latinos in the US. Made even more proud to be Central American from Honduras that has lived and contributed to my adopted homeland here in the US. Only wish the discussion was longer.
  • "I had no ideal when I refused to give up my seat on that Montgomery bus that my small action would help put an end to the segregation laws in the South. I only knew that I was tired of being pushed around. I was a regular person, just as good as anybody else. There had been a few times in my life when I was treated by white people like a regular person, so I knew what that felt like. It was time. It was time that other white people started treating me that way." ~ Rosa Parks (1913-2005), American Civil Rights activist. She was arrested for refusing to give her seat on the bus to a white man. Ms. Rosa Parks was arrested, and the Montgomery bus boycott was on. Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. won the Nobel Peace Prize for his leadership of that resistance effort. 🕊
  • I remember Ms. Stacey Abrams, who ran for Governor of Georgia, once said, "If I don't advocate for myself who will?" We can't blame her for advocate for Hispanics.
  • Half of the BorderCrossers are non-Mexicans who come into Mexico from China and the Caribbean (see Darien crossers) and pour into Mexico to enter the US. (I lived in Mexico 5 mos. each year since 1970) worked w/ Quakers also before radical changes in 2020.)
  • People who say "undocumented" to denote people who snuck in illegally lose credibility with me.
  • @adonasbuhr2784
    see 3:50 Latino and Hispanic is not a race or an ethnicity of a race, it is a linguistic identity.
  • @Pecos33109
    EDIT: I hear it now. ORIG: I can't hear any sound on this video.
  • @jaiyabyrd4177
    Taking exception to Puerto Ricans 🔥Latinos only are concerned as a group about how large their population grows. I really really want to know what %age fought of Latinos or are they Spaniards in the Revolutionary and Civil War as she claims. However this Latina doesn't speak of them enslaving the Hopi Indians in New Mexico during the time 1850s
  • @sallycasas4170
    Latino, Latina people originated on this continent. We are indigenous and native.😁😎😷🙋‍♀️
  • If you are Latino/Hispanic, vote Blue up and down your ballots this year and going forward in your best interest going forward.