Why Latinos Deported Harris From the White House
Nov 15, 2024
Brandy Perez
Research Assistant, Border Security and Immigration Center
Key Takeaways
The Biden-Harris administration created an invasion along the Rio Grande, which burdened communities across the nation.
The left’s management of the southern border created discord throughout America and led to a nationwide plea for a safe and secure border.
That plea was heard in the 2024 Presidential election, with some of its loudest voices coming from the Latino community.
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Latinos left the Democratic party in a mass exodus last week, costing Vice President Kamala Harris the presidency. The 13-point Latino shift towards President-elect Trump noticed along the Rio Grande indicates Ms. Harris’s campaign failed to make Latinos forget the peril caused by her and Joe Biden’s open border.
The Latino red wave surfaced in South Texas. Mr. Trump won 11 out of 13 Texas border counties. The Rio Grande Valley, with a 91% Hispanic population, flipped, creating a Republican majority for the first time in a century. The Latino base showed up for Mr. Trump, with Hispanic men ranked as the second largest demographic group to vote red, according to NBC exit polls.
America’s Latino voting bloc was previously unpredictable by political analysts until the chaos along the southern border became an issue that could no longer be ignored.
The Biden-Harris administration created an invasion along the Rio Grande, which burdened communities across the nation. The unsecure border drastically increased Latino susceptibility towards transnational human trafficking for commercial sex purposes, drug trafficking, and cheap labor exploitation.
Hispanics know these tragic matters affect their community, which explains why 74% of Hispanics polled earlier this year stated the Biden-Harris administration did a bad job dealing with the immigration crisis.
Instead of addressing this top concern among Latinos, Ms. Harris released a campaign promise titled “Opportunity agenda for Latino Men,” which avoided promising stricter border policies, an aspect Latino men searched for in a presidential candidate.
Kamala’s address to Latinos also failed to account for over 300,000 unaccompanied alien children lost by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). U.S. Customs and Border Protection encountered over half a million illegal alien minors, 98 percent of whom were of Latin American origin.
Why Latinos Deported Harris From the White House
Latinos left the Democratic party in a mass exodus last week, costing Vice President Kamala Harris the presidency. The 13-point Latino shift towards President-elect Trump noticed along the Rio Grande indicates Ms. Harris’s campaign failed to make Latinos forget the peril caused by her and Joe...
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