Democratic Strategy

Within the democratic campaign was launched the "Operation Vote," an effort to expand the electorate and maximize the participation of what they called "key constituents." These include, African Americans, women, youth, Latinos, gays, veterans and Asians. The idea was to communicate and encourage the participation of these groups in their communities and neighborhoods, through various strategies, such as one on one conversations grassroots on issues such as jobs, health and education.

Especially in key states like Florida, New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada and California, the network of "Obama for America" was deployed tackles through phone banks in Spanish, and meetings with local leaders Latinos, bilingual volunteers deploying, maintaining presence in local Hispanic events and doing activities in both languages, to encourage voter participation and enroll citizens.

For example, President Obama met with Univision and highlighted some of the changes that have been made on the issue of immigration. These are some of the strategies implemented:

Evaluation of deportations: the federal government announced that it would assess hundreds of thousands of deportation cases to determine which undocumented immigrants could continue to live in the country. The idea is to separate with good records undocumented immigrants in the United States to focus resources on deporting undocumented immigrants with criminal records. In cities like Denver and Baltimore immigration authorities have put a lot of time to determine who should focus.

Mexican consulates Travel: The Obama administration proposed a change to the process of obtaining a green card that allows some undocumented immigrants married Americans, or Americans who are children, return to their home countries for a much shorter time than usual . As part of the bureaucratic process today must wait in their home countries for several months. The change would reduce the waiting time just a few days or weeks and aims to prevent prolonged separation of families.

Lawsuits against states with anti-immigrant laws: The federal government, through the Department of Justice has filed several lawsuits against anti-immigrant laws that have passed several states, including Alabama, South Carolina and Utah. The Supreme Court of the nation this year will evaluate the merits of the claim that the federal government filed against the Arizona law. The result could have consequences for the future of all anti-immigrant laws passed by the states.

Obama took out the strategy in which they used direct clips of what was said in Republican debates, and not commented on them; just put it in ads on Univision and Telemundo and let Latinos decide.

All this was very good for President Obama, but not for the 11 million undocumented workers and their families who continue to live in limbo because politicians in Washington DC know they can break their promises and win their votes anyway. Because it is unclear whether these strategies will truly have an impact on the Latino electorate. Maybe it's too late given the record of deportations under the Obama administration and the unfulfilled promises of immigration reform.