Post-Arizona Law, Anti-GOP Backlash Among Latino Voters Fails to Materialize

LOS ANGELES — When Arizona’s Republican governor, Jan Brewer, signed SB 1070 — the state’s high-profile effort to identify, prosecute and deport illegal immigrants — into law in April, strategists worried openly about the possibility of alienating Latino voters.

Some Republicans, especially those from Hispanic-heavy states like Texas’s Rick More…

McCain Courts Latino Voters

YUMA, Ariz.—This dusty agricultural city, home of a Marine Corps air station and Army proving grounds for more than a decade, was the center of a big wave of illegal immigration into the United States. Today, immigration registers barely a blip on the local political radar screen as some Border More…