Why Latinos should vote for Trump

[lostinblue 1,989]

Immigration is not Latinos’ top concern.

There’s a reason that a 2014 Pew study was headlined “Top issue for Hispanics? Hint: It’s not immigration.” Despite Democrats’ insistence that Trump’s stance on undocumented immigrants means he can’t win Latino votes, polls consistently show that Latinos’ top issues are the same as other Americans — we care most about the economy and jobs.

And it’s not just the job market. Last year, a study found that, of the millions of Latinos nationwide who hope to be homeowners, less than one in five has the ability to do so. Latinos can’t afford four more years of Democratic policies.

If you’re really pro-Latino, you’re wary of undocumented immigration.

Ask almost anyone to name the biggest Latino icon in this country’s history and they’ll likely name Cesar Chavez. The legendary Mexican American labor organizer paved the way for farmworker unionization, but here’s the bit you won’t hear often: Early in his career, he was a staunch opponent of illegal immigration and worked with authorities at the U.S.-Mexico border to keep illegal border crossers out. His rationale was that Latino laborers in the United States would be undercut by undocumented workers. If that reasoning sounds familiar, it’s because the same tension exists today.

What Chavez understood was essentially the same thing Harvard economist George Borjas explained to Congress this year: Immigration costs American workers $500 billion annually in lost wages. So how is immigration good for Latinos already here?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/08/22/why-latinos-should-vote-for-trump/?utm_term=.908b42cf22dc

[Dakine10 5,452]

If that was an entirely true and representative opinion, it sounds like Trump could have done well conducting his campaign without needing to have come across as a race baiting jackass. However I would venture that's not an entirely true and representative opinion, and Trump did indeed choose to present himself as a race baiting jackass. I'm not sure an opinion article can do much to change that at this point.

Looking past the fact that the author is a conservative commentator and "Trump campaign surrogate", we could just focus on the point - Trumps economic policies. Tax cuts for everyone without reducing deficit spending combined with the likely hood of a trade war with China is not the recipe for a healthy economy. More likely were looking at loosing jobs and a major recession before we would see IF there is any merit to Trumps plan. In case you didn't notice that was a big "if". Even single issue voters should be skeptical of Trumps economic plan, and that's after already taking with a grain of salt that he's not going to flip flop on that at some point too.

[CarlosAndSveta 808]

The author talks about Cesar Chavez but I bet you she is against unions. I am college educated and to me economic issues are more important that immigration. I just know that the Republican's supply side economic theory (trickle down economics) hasn't worked and as long as they keep pushing it I will never vote Republican again.