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Saturday, November 19, 2016

Exit Poll: 58 Percent of Hispanic Voters Back Donald Trump’s Immigration Policies

A majority of Hispanic voters said they “support Donald Trump’s immigration policies,” undercutting the narrative that enforcing immigration law will drive away Latinos, one exit poll found.

The poll, conducted from Nov. 9 to Nov. 10 by Zogby Analytics for the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), found 58.5 percent of Hispanic voters favored President-Elect Donald Trump’s immigration policies, compared to 32.9 percent for failed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.

Of all voters, 57.4 percent said they support Trump’s immigration policies, with 38.4 percent backing Clinton’s.

Twice as many Hispanic voters think immigration enforcement is too lax than those who think it’s too strict (36.3 percent versus 18.3 percent).

“The conventional wisdom that advocating enforcement of immigration laws is a deal-killer for Hispanic voters is just plain wrong,” Dan Stein, president of FAIR, said in a statement. “It is a myth perpetuated by groups and individuals with a political stake in maintaining mass immigration and by a bunch of high-price political consultants who continually misread public sentiment.”

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Legal Hispanics can't even find jobs, the immigrants run wages down or take the jobs they use to have..and why would you want to go through the immigration process while these immigrants lie and cross over without being challenged... wonder why some of them voted for trump..

Anonymous said...

Even the Latino community is fed up with more illegals taking away jobs.