Roberto Suro
Roberto Suro
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There is a big demographic wave of Hispanic kids who are native born who will be turning 18 in even greater numbers over the next three, four and five election cycles.
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Those places all tend to be metro areas where the overall population is growing fast and where the economies are vibrant. That kind of rapid economic growth and expansion creates a demand, particularly for recently arrived immigrant workers.
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You end up, after a point, trying to balance our fundamental traditions, the need for order, law and security with a need for openness. Immigration policy, writ large, has always been partly a matter of national identity. It becomes a values-laden debate. Congress is having a hard time with it.
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Much of their future lies there, ... The high school dropout rates are all going in the right direction and are improving. They have gotten better for the second generation.
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New York, Chicago and Los Angeles have gotten expensive, and they haven't been growing a fast as Charlotte and Raleigh.
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The extremely high (immigration) flows at the end of the past decade were not the norm, nor part of a long-term trend, but rather the peak of a momentary increase that lasted for only a few years.
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The provocation ended up being even more substantial because the thing was actually passed. What that showed is that immigration can be a mobilizing issue for Hispanic voters in a negative sense, that they will respond to a perception that the entire population is being demonized, or that the measures are excessively harsh.
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Regardless of what happens to immigration flows, there is a huge second generation of Latinos.
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If all these people that came here are going to stay, then there is a question of what will be the social cost. If they're only here for their working life, it's a bargain.
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There are signs, on both sides, of a failure to engage.
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We know that the negative sentiments are more prevalent among the middle-aged rather than the young,
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The question is whether this moment continues. Does this shape the way they see themselves as citizens and does this become part of their view of themselves as voters? And if it does it can have a lasting impact. The real stakes here are long-term.
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What we see from the survey is people understood they had the right to vote, they just didn't know how to go about it.
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I'm afraid I have no way of knowing. I'm not sure what the answer would be.