Recent polling data shows that immigration stands as a key-factor in next years election with fifteen-percent of likely voters marking it as their main voting priority
The US immigrant community has grown non-stop since the seventies reaching new heights - about fourteen-percent of total population (which includes both legal and non-legal residents). Over the past two decades the foreign-born population jumped up by half showing a quick-paced demographic shift
The most striking change is in voting power: naturalized citizens now make up ten-percent of all US voters. These new-Americans (numbering 23.8 million) come from different parts of the world with the biggest groups being:
- Mexico leads the pack
- India and China follow close behind
- The Philippines adds six-percent
- Vietnam contributes four-percent
- Several Latin American nations like El Salvador‚ Cuba‚ and the Dominican Republic round out the top spots
This shift in voter makeup shows how the nations demographics keep changing; the numbers point to a different kind of electorate than what we saw just twenty years back. The data suggests that these new-citizens will play a big part in shaping next years election results