Pew on Immigration as an Issue
I’ll have more to say about Pew’s recently released survey, but for now I’ll start with this excerpt (the highlighting is mine):
About 14% of Latinos cited immigration as “the most important problem facing the country today,” second only to the war in Iraq (22%). But Hispanics, who in past surveys have not ranked immigration as a top-tier issue, are divided on how much of a concern it is to them. As with other matters involving immigration, the split is generally between Latino immigrants and Latinos who are born in the U.S. Foreign-born Latinos in this case were more than three times as likely to see immigration as the most important problem compared with native-born Latinos (20% vs. 6%).
Given that Latino voters are much more likely to have been born in the U.S. than the Latino population at large, this is just one of the findings from the Pew survey that reinforces that immigration is not the issue which is going to deliver the Latino vote to the Democratic Party in 2006.
