Why Hispanic voters are backing Trump over Biden to fix the border crisis
Hispanic voters in seven key battleground states for the 2024 elections trust Donald Trump to handle immigration better than President Joe Biden.
While 38 percent of Hispanic voters in these swing states trust Biden to handle immigration, 41 percent of the same voting bloc trust Trump more.
Sixteen percent of voters in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin remain undecided. This is evident from an opinion poll by Equis.
Much has been written about why Hispanics, who are often first-, second- or third-generation U.S. citizens, are angry about how the immigration system has become more lax in recent years.
Interviews with Hispanic and Latino voters show that they feel excluded by Democrats who are trying to make it easier for migrants to enter the country and be released without legal status.
A new poll shows that Hispanic voters in seven key swing states have more confidence in Donald Trump to handle immigration than in President Joe Biden
Arturo Garino, formerly mayor of Nogales, Arizona, told NBC News that open borders are not the way to go.
“I don’t think this administration is doing a good job of just letting all these people come over,” Garino said.
“I’m a Democrat, and I’m pretty devastated.”
Mitch Landrieu, co-chair of Biden’s campaign, said “I don’t know” when asked why he thinks the president is losing ground among Hispanic voters.
“Latino voters are just like everyone else,” Landrieu said in his interview with NBC host Peter Alexander on Sunday. ‘They move from space to space. You also see this among African-American voters.’
Non-Hispanic voters in the seven swing states surveyed also prefer Trump to handle immigration better than Biden.
Forty-nine percent of non-Hispanic voters in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin say they trust the former border hawk president, compared to 34 percent of those who say they trust Biden more.
The poll shows that 14 percent are still undecided.
Migration and the southern border crisis remain a top issue for voters ahead of November’s presidential election, with nearly 8 million people crossing the border illegally since Biden took office
Nearly 8 million migrants have crossed the southern border since Biden took office in January 2021, reversing most of Trump-era policies on day one. He then spent the next three and a half years implementing a more lax policy that allowed more migrants to cross.
Then, earlier this month, Biden issued an executive order banning migrants from seeking asylum at the southern border once it reaches 2,500 per day.
Republicans blasted the order as a desperate attempt by the Biden administration to cash in on setbacks from the immigration crisis ahead of the November election.