How Do Immigrants Vote?
Cato Podcast
Cato Institute
4.5 • 979 Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2020
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Immigrants make up a valuable group of voters in American elections. How did they vote in 2016 and 2020? Alex Nowrasteh explains.
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| 1:00.4 | 2020. I'm Caleb Brown. What do we know now about voters in 2020 who were not born |
| 1:06.1 | in the United States? What does that mean for affiliation for current and future naturalized |
| 1:12.0 | citizens? Cato's Alex Narasta looks at the data. and future naturalized citizens. |
| 1:13.0 | Cato's Alex Norasta looks at the data. |
| 1:15.0 | About how many immigrant citizens are there in the United States? |
| 1:20.0 | There are just over 20 million foreign-born citizens in the United States who immigrated to the US, |
| 1:28.0 | naturalized, became citizens, and are therefore allowed to vote in U.S. presidential elections. |
| 1:34.3 | So what do we know about those people's voting behavior? |
| 1:38.6 | Do they tend to vote? |
| 1:40.5 | Do they tend to vote in higher numbers than Native born Americans? |
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