Let’s be real, for all it’s talk of being the Spanish language television voice of Latinos in the U.S., Univision doesn’t have the most progressive record. Have you seen the makeup of the novela protagonistas? And despite all the immigration questions on the CNN/Univision debates, I can’t say I’m surprised that Univision’s political action committee contributed $1,000 on January 30, 2008 to the Friends of Cliff Stearns committee. And who is Cliff Sterns?

He was a co-sponsor of H.R. 4437 (The Border Protection, Anti-terrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005), which was popularly known as the Sensenbrenner Bill. He is also a co-sponsor of the pending immigration enforcement bill H.R. 4088 formally entitled the Secure America Through Verification and Enforcement (SAVE) Act of 2007. Stearns’ stance on immigration is spelled out on his campaign website, which includes the statement “Let me assure you that I will oppose any bill that contains amnesty provisions.”

What else has Sterns done? Hmm how does he love the undocumented? Let me count the ways thanks to Latina Lista. He opposed access to healthcare for undocumented children via SCHIP, he wants to protect businesses that establish English only as company policy, and of course he’s pro-border fence.

So when you watch your Univision novelas with the darkest character always being the household help who gets saved by the lightskinned rich ass business man, Univision is that businessman, wanting to screw the hell out of those that back them while working against them all in the same breath.

Via / Latina Lista and Candidato USA