In Milwaukee, Latinos fed up with crime weigh GOP appeal

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Carrying Voces’ flyers promoting “pro-immigrant, pro-working class” candidates – the Wisconsin Democrats running for statewide office – Deisy Espana, a 20-year-old college student, said the “unfair” treatment her undocumented parents suffered motivates her activism. In a late September poll by the Pew Research Center, more Latinos said they felt that the Democratic Party “works hard to earn Latinos’ vote” and “cares about Latinos” than the Republican Party. Since April, Vamos in Wisconsin has contacted more Hispanic voters there than over the last three election cycles combined – voters like the woman who chucklingly told two Vamos canvassers last week, “You’re in the wrong neighborhood.” “I can always learn more,” she nevertheless added, taking their flyers. As his 2-year-old daughter played with the bilingual flyer listing Republican statewide candidates under “¡Equipo Ganador!” – the “winning team,” described first as “pro-faith” and “pro-family” – Martinez said he hadn’t planned on voting.