Hispanic population grows in most Kentucky counties (click here)
Published: March 18, 2011
— dhjalmarson@herald-leader.com
PIKEVILLE — All but 12 Kentucky counties saw their Hispanic populations grow since 2000, and in more than a third of counties, Hispanic numbers at least doubled.
Growth in Hispanic and African-American populations statewide was higher than expected, said Michael Price, interim director of the Kentucky State Data Center.
In Fayette and Jefferson counties, the Hispanic population more than doubled. Fayette County's Hispanic population cracked 20,000, nearly 7 percent of the county's total 295,803.
Other minority populations grew far less quickly: Fayette's black population grew by 21 percent, to nearly 41,000 or about 15 percent of the total, and those reporting multiple races grew by 75 percent....
The Huffington Post | By Elise Foley Posted: 03/22/2013 5:45 pm EDT Updated: 03/22/2013 6:09 pm EDT
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Former Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.), (click here) who has devoted much of his career to advocating for stricter immigration enforcement, disavowed Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Friday for supporting reform -- and for speaking Spanish when he did so.
"Rand Paul began his speech in Spanish and it went downhill from there," he wrote in an op-ed titled "Why I No Longer Stand with Rand Paul" for The Christian Post. "His speech was filled with virtually every single discredited pro-amnesty cliché you could imagine."
Paul gave a speech to the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday outlining his plan for immigration reform, which would include allowing undocumented immigrants to remain in the United States, work legally, and eventually become citizens. He also called for increased border enforcement and has rejected the claims that his proposal should be considered "amnesty" or even a "pathway to citizenship."...
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