Latinos For Trump
Latinos Supporting Trump Are Putting Themselves (And All of Us) in Danger
Decoding Republican dog whistles about immigration is easy and makes it clear who they’re talking about
In the U.S., when people talk about the border or use phrases like “undocumented immigrant” or “illegal alien,” they’re almost always thinking about Latinos. This is despite the broad diversity of people coming to the United States. The narratives portrayed both in the media and broader society paint migrants coming to the U.S. via Mexico as strictly from Latin America thus creating a discriminatory bias against Latinos in all aspects of our daily lives.
This thinking gained prominence under former president Bill Clinton after both Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush had a much more humane stance about Latino immigrants. After Clinton, George W. Bush took an even more hardline approach to immigrants from various countries while turning a blind eye to the hundreds of thousands of people from white countries in Europe who overstay their visas.
In 2023, a Congressional Research Service report highlighted how nonimmigrant admissions into the U.S. represent about 650,000 to 850,000 visa overstays annually for the fiscal years between 2016 and 2020. Of…
