{"id":1056550,"date":"2025-10-16T10:51:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T14:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1056550"},"modified":"2025-10-16T10:51:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T14:51:31","slug":"icymi-on-the-last-day-of-hispanic-heritage-month-lulac-ceo-advocates-for-latino-gains-on-the-democrats-daily-blueprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-on-the-last-day-of-hispanic-heritage-month-lulac-ceo-advocates-for-latino-gains-on-the-democrats-daily-blueprint\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: On the Last Day of Hispanic Heritage Month, LULAC CEO Advocates for Latino Gains on the Democrats\u2019 Daily Blueprint\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In case you missed it, Juan Proa\u00f1o, the CEO of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), appeared on the Democrats\u2019 Daily Blueprint yesterday to discuss how his organization is standing up for Latinos \u2014 whether by fighting to uphold birthright citizenship at the Supreme Court or by pushing for greater support and investment in Latino-owned businesses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You can find highlights from the conversation below: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Donald Trump\u2019s push to repeal birthright citizenship:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Juan Proa\u00f1o<\/em><\/strong><\/a>: \u201cI’m very proud to say that LULAC was the first organization to sue this administration. We literally sued him on January 20th. We knew that birthright citizenship was something that he was going to go after. It was part of what they had put in Project 2025, and we were ready to go. We filed a lawsuit that night and have continued to litigate it. We actually received the preliminary injunction in the [U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit]. It’s now going to the Supreme Court.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the need to support Latino and Latina entrepreneurs \u2014 who start businesses at higher rates than any other demographic group:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Juan Proa\u00f1o<\/em><\/strong><\/a>: \u201c<\/em>Depending on which report you look at, it’s anywhere from $4.8 trillion to $6.1 trillion in economic impact that Latinos actually have in this country \u2014 the fifth largest in the world. I was a small business owner for over 20 years, and I know how difficult and challenging that can actually be. But when we start to talk about Latino businesses, very sadly, people think about large, scalable Latino businesses. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe fact of the matter is 99[%] of Latino businesses are not scalable. They will never get to more than four employees. They may never have more than half a million dollars, for example, in revenue. But what they do have is [that] they\u2019re family owned businesses. This could be, you know, the lawn service company, for example. It can be the cleaning lady that may come to your home and provide these services as well. They are mom-and-pop, sole proprietors, if you will. And they really rely on social service programs, like health care,  for example, because they’re not large enough to be able to get it in a private market. They rely on, for example, Obamacare, to be able to get their healthcare as well. So we need to be able to continue to support them, and continue to provide them with financial support. Access to loans is really a really big differentiating factor for Latino small businesses and really giving them more opportunities in every state across the country.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the Trump administration\u2019s broken promises to the Latino community:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Juan Proa\u00f1o<\/em><\/strong><\/a>: \u201cMore Latino men voted for Trump than any other Republican president up until that point in time. I think what we’re seeing now is very much buyer’s remorse. A lot of folks didn’t necessarily believe when he talked about immigration enforcement and the detentions and deportations that he was planning. They thought it was just one of those other things that he talked a big game [about] but wasn’t necessarily going to deliver on. I was telling voters throughout, \u2018if you believe he’s going to cut your taxes, then you should absolutely believe that he’s going to implement one of the most egregious deportation efforts that this country has ever seen,\u2019 and that’s what we’re seeing. But it’s not just that, you know, he promised to lower inflation. Inflation hasn’t gone down. He promised to lower the unemployment rate. Unemployment hasn’t necessarily gone down. The cost of eggs, certainly where I shop, it’s $6, $7, $9 per dozen. It’s still very expensive. And it’s really put a lot of families, especially Latino families, in jeopardy. Concerned about their health care, concerned about the cost of food, and just putting food on the dinner table is really a challenge for our community.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In case you missed it, Juan Proa\u00f1o, the CEO of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), appeared on the Democrats\u2019 Daily Blueprint yesterday to discuss how his organization is standing up for Latinos \u2014 whether by fighting to uphold birthright citizenship at the Supreme Court or by pushing for greater support and investment […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1056550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nICYMI: On the Last Day of Hispanic Heritage Month, LULAC CEO Advocates for Latino Gains on the Democrats\u2019 Daily Blueprint\u00a0 - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-on-the-last-day-of-hispanic-heritage-month-lulac-ceo-advocates-for-latino-gains-on-the-democrats-daily-blueprint\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-10-16T14:51:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-10-16T14:51:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image_cd6319.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"814\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Adrianna Tomasello\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Adrianna Tomasello\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-on-the-last-day-of-hispanic-heritage-month-lulac-ceo-advocates-for-latino-gains-on-the-democrats-daily-blueprint\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-on-the-last-day-of-hispanic-heritage-month-lulac-ceo-advocates-for-latino-gains-on-the-democrats-daily-blueprint\/\",\"name\":\"ICYMI: On the Last Day of Hispanic Heritage Month, LULAC CEO Advocates for Latino Gains on the Democrats\u2019 Daily Blueprint\u00a0 - 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