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NPR host Maria Hinojosa said on this week’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Sunday Show” that Latinos who support former President Donald Trump “want to be white.” Host Jonathan Capehart said, “This is from this Telemundo poll, that shows a shrinking majority of Latino voters in favor of the Democratic candidate.” He asked, “Vice President Harris at 54%, she has a 14 point lead but it has been shrinking after each consecutive presidential election from 2016. Why is that? Why is the Democratic share of the Latino vote shrinking?” Hinojosa said, “What I said to you when we asked the question...

Bill Hemmer toys with DNC harpy…  https://youtu.be/5hT-Q7OYAz0 

FNC's Bill Hemmer repeatedly asked DNC Communications Director Xochitl Hinojosa why Joe Biden's name appears on a recently declassified list of Obama administration officials who asked to "unmask" the name of then-incoming National Security Advisor Michael Flynn. (snip) XOCHITL HINOJOSA, DNC: First of all, this is a distraction. All you are having Republicans do right now is distract from the fact that they continue to politicize the Justice Department. I'm someone who worked there and I understand the dependence of the justice Department and yet you have thousands of justice Department employees that reacted to the Michael Flynn news and...

Video: DNC spokeswoman Xochitl Hinojosa discusses upcoming elections (7 mins)

Washington • The state-owned oil company of Azerbaijan secretly funded an all-expenses-paid trip to a conference at Baku on the Caspian Sea in 2013 for 10 members of Congress and 32 staff members, according to a confidential ethics report obtained by The Washington Post. Three former top aides to President Barack Obama appeared as speakers at the conference. Lawmakers and their staff members received hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of travel expenses, silk scarves, crystal tea sets and Azerbaijani rugs valued at $2,500 to $10,000, according to the ethics report. Airfare for the lawmakers and some of their spouses...

A Republican hopeful for Texas governor drew harsh criticism for hitting the campaign trail Tuesday with Ted Nugent, the controversial rocker who recently described President Barack Obama as a "subhuman mongrel." Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott appeared at two campaign stops with the outspoken gun-loving musician-turned-commentator on the first day of early primary voting in the traditionally Republican state where he faces a surprisingly tough challenge by a rising-star Democrat.

McALLEN — Asked Wednesday about the Second Amendment, longtime U.S. Rep. Rubén Hinojosa fumbled for an answer. “There are so many people in Washington who come and talk to us about the Constitution and the rights that they want kept sacred and that not do anything about them. (sic) That we not change them. That we not amend them,” said Hinojosa. “And I can tell you that — I’m drawing a blank on the Second Amendment, but I think it’s the weapons, isn’t it? The NRA?” Hinojosa recovered after a brief pause, recalling how the 1999 Columbine High School massacre...

Congressman Hinojosa files for bankruptcyby Action 4 News Staff Posted: 02.03.2011 at 6:46 PM WASHINGTON (AP) -- An eight-term Texas congressman who serves on the House Financial Services Committee has filed for personal bankruptcy and is blaming his family meat company for his problems. According to federal bankruptcy court documents, Democratic Rep. Ruben Hinojosa has $2.9 million in liabilities, though he also has nearly $1.5 million in assets. **SNIP** The Financial Services panel has jurisdiction over legislation affecting banks. House aides and outside experts say the House has no rules forbidding a lawmaker who owes large sums to a bank...

Report: Foreclosure Crisis Hits Blacks, Latinos ASSOCIATED PRESS November 16, 2009 NEW YORK (AP) -- Black and Latinos are at a disproportionate risk in the ongoing foreclosure crisis because they are more likely than whites to have higher-cost mortgage loans and face higher unemployment rates, a report says. The report from the William C. Velasquez Institute called on the federal government to take steps, including reforming bankruptcy laws and expanding eligibility for mortgage modification efforts, to help combat the crisis. ''If nothing is done then the foreclosures will continue disproportionately hitting blacks and Latinos,'' said UCLA professor Raul Hinojosa the...

Tens of millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars could soon be flowing into the National Council of La Raza, an organization that advocates for civil rights for Hispanics and has connections to other groups that advocate the separation of several southwestern states from the rest of the nation. The proposal has been made by Rep. Rubin Hinojosa, and it would give the organization $5 million starting in 2008, with the funding doubling "for each fiscal year thereafter." Rep. Charles Norwood, R-GA, condemned La Raza last year as a radical "pro-illegal immigration lobbying organization that supports racist groups calling for the secession...

WASHINGTON - Congress' standoff over immigration legislation flared into emotional rhetoric Wednesday over a House proposal to make English the nation's official language. A Hispanic lawmaker said that was "code for official discrimination." Rep. Ruben Hinojosa (news, bio, voting record), D-Texas, lashed out at Republicans during a House hearing on the proposal, saying the effort was designed by the House majority to "derail comprehensive immigration reform and fan the flames of anti-immigrant sentiment before the election." Hinojosa, who grew up in Texas' Rio Grande Valley, said he was among children who were spanked and punished for speaking Spanish in school....

The political recriminations from the cliffhanger passage of the Central American Free Trade Agreement last week are even worse than we thought. Nancy Pelosi, the House Minority Leader, is contemplating revenge against the 15 Democrats who had the nerve to vote for hemispheric growth and progress. The San Francisco Democrat called a caucus gripe session in the wake of last Wednesday's vote, and an article in the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call suggested that Democrats who voted yes may lose their favorite committee assignments. Our John Fund reports on OpinionJournal.com that Democratic leaders are especially mad at two Black Caucus...

MCALLEN -- A state senator who feels he was harassed during a routine traffic stop is now trying to get the laws changed. Dashboard video from a police cruiser showed a conversation between State Senator Juan “Chuy” Hinojosa (D-Mission) and an officer with the South Texas Specialized Crimes and Narcotics Task Force.

Immigrant Nation, Divided Country Are illegal workers stealing jobs and destroying the fabric of American society? Or are they energizing the U.S. economy and keeping the American dream alive? CNN Correspondent Maria Hinojosa, a Mexican-American herself, goes inside the lives of four families on the front lines of the growing debate over illegal immigration. Premieres Sunday, October 17, 8 p.m. ET

Federal Court Orders Class Action for Immigrants Denied Proof of Status; Delays Keep Legal Permanent Residents from Work, Family 4/1/2004 4:29:00 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk Contact: Javier N. Maldonado of the Texas Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights, 210-277-1603 ext. 307 MCALLEN, Texas, April 1 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Texas Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) won a significant victory in a federal lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on behalf of legal permanent residents in Texas who have been denied adequate proof of their lawful status. Federal...

Doggett releases list of Travis County supporters while rival holds first Austin press conference Leticia Hinojosa may be looking to become the first Hispanic female to represent Texas in the U.S. House but she says she hopes race does not dominate her Democratic primary battle with U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin). Austin reporters got their first opportunity to quiz the former state district judge from McAllen this afternoon when she held a press conference to announce her candidacy for Congressional District 25 at the Nuevo Leon restaurant in east Austin. At the same time, Doggett was releasing a list of...

McALLEN — Judge Leticia Hinojosa will get financial support from Democrat activists in Hidalgo County if she makes a run for Congress in the new District 25. Hinojosa, who sits on the bench of the 139th state District Court, was chosen as the Hidalgo County candidate to support, said La Joya Mayor Billy Leo. Leo said he attended a meeting along with other area businessmen Monday night at the law office of Democratic Chairman R.D. “Bobby” Guerra. “We can’t speak for the general population, who are we to dictate who will run?” Leo said. “What you have here is trying...

Democrats donate $230,000 to party, fund Associated Press DALLAS (AP) - Since the redistricting fight erupted last spring, 13 of the 17 Texas Democrats in Congress have donated more than $230,000 to the state Democratic party and a political fund dedicated to re-electing state lawmakers. Quarterly financial reports filed by the congressional Democrats last week show they donated $141,000 from their campaign funds to the state Democratic Party, The Dallas Morning News reported in Wednesday's editions. The contributions ranged from $5,000 from Reps. Nick Lampson of Beaumont and Sheila Jackson Lee of Houston to $50,000 from Rep. Martin Frost of...

Redistricting fight continues Gov. Perry calls for third special session BY TRICIA CORTEZ Times staff writer After more than six weeks of personal financial and family sacrifice to fight the Republican leadership on congressional redistricting, the "Texas 11 Minus One" are coming home Wednesday. Laredo will be their first stop in the Lone Star State. Eight of the 10 Democratic state senators are expected to fly in from Albuquerque, N.M. Wednesday. They will land at 4:30 p.m. at Labata FBO, a private hangar at the Laredo International Airport, and will be joined later by senators Eddie Lucio Jr. of Brownsville...

Five senators coming for redistricting lawsuit BY TRICIA CORTEZ Times staff writer Wednesday promises to be another hot one for Laredo - politically speaking, that is. Five of the 11 Democratic state senators are scheduled to fly in from Albuquerque for the first hearing on the congressional redistricting lawsuit that involves Gov. Rick Perry and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst. Chief U.S. District Judge George P. Kazen will preside over all pending legal motions in federal court. The five state senators scheduled to attend the Laredo hearing are Judith Zaffirini (Laredo), John Whitmire (Houston), Eliot Shapleigh (El Paso), Royce West (Dallas)...