The path to the university, whose president is Donna Shalala, the long-serving health secretary during both terms of Bill Clinton's administration, is well trodden by White House hopefuls: Mitt Romney was here three weeks ago for a Spanish-language interview in an attempt to woo the Hispanic vote.
Every Mexican, every Hispanic that crosses the border, they want the American dream.
Police say that one of the three officers involved in Zambrano-Montes's shooting came from a Hispanic background but from an English-speaking home.
Just one out of the city's seven-member council is of Hispanic descent, and the police force, made up of 67 officers, is only 22% Hispanic.
Hispanic residents, who make up 56% of the city's population, remain a disenfranchised majority in Pasco.
The protests on Saturday, attended in the majority by Hispanic residents of the Tri-Cities, were led by the chant "El pueblo unido jamas sera vencido" ("The people united will never be defeated").
Most of them have been poor and black or Hispanic.
After a much-reduced second season, Pleasant was dismissed, his plans for a "living museum of dance" (with Russian, American and British "wings", and units for black and Hispanic dances) were ditched, and impresario Sol Hurok toured the company in a more traditional, Russianised guise.
Local activists in the Hispanic community met with Justice Department representatives over the weekend.
Pew says that figure has been pretty steady throughout the election campaign and is a wider margin in favour of the president than his victory over John McCain four years ago when Obama won the Hispanic vote by 67% to 31%.
Top issues for Hispanic voters were, unsurprisingly, the same as for most other Americans: education, jobs and health care.
