On Tuesday, Hillary Clinton celebrated Cinco de Mayo by unambiguously embracing a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. On Wednesday's Daily Show, Senior Latino Correspondent Al Madrigal was underwhelmed by Clinton's "solid opening offer" to Latinos. Democrats have to do more than pander, he said, "especially since Republicans finally have a candidate Latinos can call their own."
When Jon Stewart tried to correct him, pointing out that Sens. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz are both Latinos, Madrigal scoffed. "I guess those guys are technically Latinos," he said, but not really. That's partly because they "threw away a path to citizenship for a path to the White House," Madrigal added, "but mainly because they're Cuban, really a small and, I've got to be honest, a snooty subset — they're like the WASPs of the Latino world."
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