The importance of voting for new Americans

The not insignificant figure of 5.19 million naturalized American voters since 2016, the majority of whom are female and from Latin America, Africa and Asia, is presented as a key pillar ahead of the November midterm elections in the United States .

The director of the GALEO Organization, Jerry González, highlighted in statements to the voice of america the importance of the Latino vote, especially considering that the polls predict a disputed election.

“President Biden won the state by only 11,000 votes,” González observed in reference to the results of the 2020 presidential election in the state of Georgia. However, he deepens, in the previous elections, those of 2016, it was Donald Trump who won the victory by 200,000 votes difference. “This indicates that here the 385,000 votes of Latinos can make a difference,” he concludes.

The participation of new, recently naturalized voters will influence the formation of the United States Senate and House of Representatives, according to the report by the National Association for New Americans and the US Immigration Policy Center.

For this reason, states that seem decisive for the electoral contest have experienced an upturn in registered voters. In Georgia, there are more than 96,000 new voters, of which 36% are of Latino origin.

In Arizona, the border state with more than 56,000 new naturalized Americans ready to vote, 56% are women. With policies directed towards women and the migrant community, liberal organizations hope to capitalize on their voter base.

“The vote should push the strategies that are going to protect the rights of immigrants in the state of Arizona,” he told the VOA Petra Falcón, who is the director of Promesa Arizona.

However, for conservative organizations in the state of Florida, the example of current immigration policies will make the new American Latino voter turn away from a conventional Democratic approach.

“It has been bad for the voter, and the voter is definitely noticing it and that is why many of them have decided to give the Republican Party -or the conservatives- an opportunity to take control of both chambers again,” predicted César Grajales, current head of Public Affairs in the Free Initiative organization.

The development of topics such as inflation, reproductive health, the economy, among others, further ignites the new voters, who in the 2020 elections had already reached 10% of the electorate.

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