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“Vasquez Moctezuma is frank in her assessment of her family’s legal status, since her parents are not eligible for DACA and continue to work without documentation.

‘We are breaking some laws just by being here illegally, but we bind to the laws here,’ she said. ‘We pay our taxes every year, like any other citizen would.’ She worries that her parents, who have paid into the Social Security system — which receives an estimated $12 billion a year from undocumented immigrants and their employers — will never receive benefits and will never be able to truly retire. Still, she said, ‘This is why I studied political science, because I love the government here. I feel like in so many ways it’s so great.”
— Farai Chideya, Mexican-Americans Are Reshaping the Electoral Map In Arizona — And The U.S.
Tagged: Election 2016, Immigration
“Gabriel Sanchez, a professor of political science at the University of New Mexico and a principal at the opinion research firm Latino Decisions, said Latinos are more enthusiastic about voting this year than in 2012, having been mobilized by Trump’s comments targeting Mexicans. He added that the Republican Party will have a hard time winning over Mexican-Americans in subsequent elections unless it supports comprehensive immigration reform.

Like black millennials, younger Latinos show much weaker enthusiasm for Clinton than their elders. According to the October GenForward survey, conducted over the first half of the month, 44 percent of Latinos ages 18-30 plan to vote for Clinton and 8 percent will vote for Trump, with 10 percent going to third-party candidates. Nineteen percent said they didn’t plan to vote, and 12 percent were undecided.”
— Farai Chideya, Mexican-Americans Are Reshaping the Electoral Map In Arizona — And The U.S.
Tagged: Election 2016
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