Hispanics’ Voting Preferences on Immigration

Summary

As the nation’s largest minority, Hispanics have been a point of focus in recent elections, especially given the rising importance of immigration as a policy issue. The majority of immigrants to the United States are Hispanic, so it has long been assumed that Hispanics will be most loyal to candidates that make immigration to the U.S. easier.

On this week’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy, Jim Robb of NumbersUSA joins host and executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, Mark Krikorian, to discuss voting and public opinion trends among Hispanics, particularly regarding immigration, and to debunk the longstanding myth that Hispanics want open borders.

“Hispanics, they’re not especially conservative,” Robb explains, “but they’re as conservative as other Americans are conservative.” In essence, Hispanics are increasingly voting like the rest of the U.S. population, which often happens among other immigrant groups, as they and their children assimilate to the broader American culture over time. Robb’s recent book, Political Migrants: Hispanic Voters on the Move—How America's Largest Minority Is Flipping Conventional Wisdom on Its Head, discusses these trends in greater detail.

Host

Mark Krikorian is the Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies.

Guests

Jim Robb is Vice President of NumbersUSA.

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Intro Montage

Voices in the opening montage:

• Sen. Barack Obama at a 2005 press conference.
• Sen. John McCain in a 2010 election ad.
• President Lyndon Johnson, upon signing the 1965 Immigration Act.
• Booker T. Washington, reading in 1908 from his 1895 Atlanta Exposition speech.
• Laraine Newman as a "Conehead" on SNL in 1977.
• Hillary Clinton in a 2003 radio interview.
• Cesar Chavez in a 1974 interview.
• House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaking to reporters in 2019.
• Prof. George Borjas in a 2016 C-SPAN appearance.
• Sen. Jeff Sessions in 2008 comments on the Senate floor.
• Charlton Heston in "Planet of the Apes".