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To: HPilot who wrote (563408)	4/28/2010 8:28:10 AM
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Arizona immigration law: Hispanics vow, 'We're going to fight' news.yahoo.com Los Angeles – Raul Rodriguez says he doesn't know English well enough to find the right words for the Arizona lawmakers who passed a bill targeting illegal immigrants. One of a dozen workers standing in the parking lot outside Home Depot in T-shirts and steel-toed shoes, Mr. Rodriguez calls over his shoulder: “We’re going to fight, eh amigos?” The group nods. If Rodriguez takes up his own call to action this November – and Hispanics nationwide follow suit – one Arizona bill could have a significant effect on politics. IN PICTURES: The US/Mexico border Sixteen years ago, a California ballot measure prohibiting undocumented immigrants from using social services, health care, and education helped to turn California from a reliably Republican state in presidential elections to one that is a virtual Democratic lock, says Matthew Kerbel, a political scientist at Villanova University in Philadelphia. Through rallies and angry comments like Rodriguez's, the Hispanic community is giving the first signs that Arizona's immigration law could stir a similar response today to the one that greeted California's Proposition 187 more than decade ago. “If you look at the history of California, you find that the experience of Prop. 187 galvanized the Latino vote like nothing ever,” says Rosalind Gold, a senior political director for the National Association of Latino Elected Officials (NALEO). “It was the catalyst for some of the biggest voting and registration drives we’ve ever had and brought out Latino candidates into local and state elections like nothing before it.”