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Con la Vista al Voto : From now until election day 2010, VivirLatino is going to have at least one post a day looking at the midterm elections and issues around the election including policy and the much hyped Latino vote.

For much of the campaign trail, Republican California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman has been courting the Latino vote out of one side of her mouth while cursing Latinos out of the other. When it was revealed earlier this campaign cycle, that her former housekeeper was undocumented, Whitman turned on the dramatics saying she considered Nicky Diaz Santillan part of the family yet fired that “family member” when she learned of her status. Now Whitman is calling for her former housekeeper to be deported.

From Calitics :

Wednesday, in an interview with Greta Van Susteren, Whitman answered the question head on. “Well, the answer is it breaks my heart, but she should be deported because she forged documents and she lied about her immigration status,” Whitman said. “And it breaks my heart. Gloria Allred pulled off a political stunt. And you know what? On Nov. 3, no one’s going to care about Nicky Diaz. But the law is the law and we live in the rule of law. It’s important.”

I know plenty of people, VivirLatino included who care about Nicky Diaz and the many like her whose names we do not know who are threatened with deportation. What people shouldn’t care for, is Whitman’s using the real life of a woman in order to promote her enforcement heavy immigration agenda. Whitman is using Diaz as a poster child for E-Verify, the problematic system that