Univision: Is Obama with the Latinos?

              Barack Obama, our president, gave a speech Tuesday January 24 2012 addressing   important topics of our interest such as the economy and education.  Maria Elena Salinas, an important Latina reporter from Univision had the chance to interview president Obama after his speech and asked him for more personal questions affecting the Latino community. One of the major issues is unemployment. More than 11% of people are unemployed and many are Latinos like the construction workers. Obama mention that the reason for many construction workers to be unemployed is because people are losing their homes and there is no one in need of their services but that is why he wants to help people refinance their homes so more contruction workers can get jobs. He also wants to help the small businesses because he knows a lot of Latinos start with their own small business. He wants to be fair, and help America as a whole, but like he told Maria Elena he needs the congress to pass the laws too. Rich people have to pay the reasonable amount of taxes for their incomes, and not less than what the workers of the rich pay. Those who go against Obama for the presidency, go against what Obama believes in. Republicans do not want to allow citizenship to those Latinos who grew up in the Unites States. They do not want a health care reform and they want to get rid of the Dream Act. Maria Elena asked president Obama what had happened to the Immigration Reform he had promise when he entered the presidency. She informed him of the statistics when it came to Latinos believing on him and he responded that even thought there had been 1.2 million deportations during his presidency he cannot ignore congress. He has to take them into consideration, and if they do not vote for it he cannot do much about it, but move the attention of the congress into another subject such as violence instead of deporting the Latinos.

           

               Maria Elena Salinas and Univision are part of the daily Latinos life. Along with fellow workers, Maria Elena search for what Latinos are interested. They want to have us Latinos the best possible way inform of situations that can affect us. Univision, its’ news and its’ reporters do not only inform us about violent Latinos, but also about Latinos triumphs and resources that will help Latinos succeed. Information like this one should be given to all Americans and not only Latinos, so they all know that Latinos are not those typical gang members  who rob America, but hard working people who live situations like any other American.