LUIS MEGID, CORRESPONDENT, UNIVISION: The latest Census figures reveal that the level of poverty among Hispanics fell to the lowest level in history. In 2017 it reached 18.3%, a significant drop of more than one percent over the previous year.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Thank you very much
MEGID: The President is celebrating it as one of his accomplishments. And while you can attribute it to a growing…
JOSÉ DIAZ-BALART, ANCHOR, TELEMUNDO: The United States lives times of hatred. Crimes against Latinos and other minorities have had a record increase, and many attribute it to the anti-immigrant rhetoric of President Trump.
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HEIDI BEIRICH, SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: Trump has given a voice to the ire and paranoia of white supremacists
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JORGE RAMOS, ANCHOR, UNIVISION: Is Nicolas Maduro a dictator and should he be removed from office?
BERNIE SANDERS, U.S. SENATOR, I-VERMONT: I definitely believe he has been very abusive. This is a decision for the people of Venezuela. I think, Jorge, that there has to be a free and fair election, but what cannot happen is that the…
LORI MONTENEGRO, WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT, TELEMUNDO: They fear that in the negotiations over border security that considers funding for the wall, there may also be a funding increase for ICE and the Border Patrol.
REP. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ, (D) NEW YORK: DHS and ICE deserve not one more dollar…
MONTENEGRO: Beyond controlling the funding that these agencies receive…
REP. JOAQUIN CASTRO, (D…
JOSÉ DÍAZ-BALART, ANCHOR, TELEMUNDO: Trump said that the southern border lives an unprecedented humanitarian crisis. The truth is that illegal crossings are at the lowest level in 18 years.
JOSÉ DIAZ-BALART, ANCHOR, TELEMUNDO: if the trend continues at this rate, the year 2019 would be the year with more immigrant entries since 2007. So that we understand, in the last four months immigration authorities detained about 200,000 immigrants at the border which means a rise of 84 percent over the same period of the previous year which ended with the detention of 109,000 persons. By…
JORGE RAMOS, SENIOR NEWS ANCHOR, UNIVISION: Do you believe we can say that again in 2020, that no one can make it to the White House, no one can become President, without the Latino vote?
TOM PEREZ, CHAIR, DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE: Exactly. Look the, the blue wall in the West: Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona with Senator Sinema, Nevada, California. We have opportunities in Texas. And then…
XAVIER BECERRA, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CALIFORNIA: Who could believe that the state of our Union would be moved by President Trump's extravagant obsession with building a wall on the border that not even the experts want?
ENRIQUE ACEVEDO, ANCHOR, UNIVISION: Upon talking about the situation on the border with Mexico, President Trump said that Republicans and Democrats must join forces to confront a national crisis, an ‘urgent national crisis’ he said. Well, the United States does not face an urgent national crisis at the border. What the President said is false. The number of undocumented detained on the southern…
CLAUDIA UCEDA, CORRESPONDENT, UNIVISION: A Marist/NPR/PBS poll conducted in the middle of the government shutdown suggests that 50 percent of Latinos surveyed approve the work of the President. An increase of 19 percent compared with the results of another survey conducted in December. 46 percent of respondents disapprove of him.