Why Hispanic voters are backing Trump over Biden to fix the border crisis
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Hispanic voters in seven key battleground states for the 2024 election trust Donald Trump to handle immigration more than President Joe Biden.
While 38 percent of Hispanic voters in these swing states trust Biden to handle immigration, 41 percent of the same voting bloc trust Trump more.
Sixteen percent of voters in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin remain undecided, according to a poll released by Equis.
Much has been made about why Hispanics, who many times are first, second or third generation American citizens, are upset with how the immigration system has become more lax in recent years.
Interviews with Hispanic and Latino voters reveal they feel disenfranchised by Democrats who are trying to make it easier for migrants to gain access into the country and be released without legal status.
A new poll shows that Hispanic voters in seven key swing states trust Donald Trump to handle immigration more than President Joe Biden
Arturo Garino, who was previously mayor of Nogales, Arizona, told NBC News that open borders is not the way to go.
'I don't think what this administration is doing it right — letting all these people just come across,' Garino said.
'I'm a Democrat, and I'm pretty p***ed off.'
Biden's campaign co-chair Mitch Landrieu 'I don't know' when asked why he thinks the president is losing ground with Hispanic voters.
'Latino voters are like everybody else,' Landrieu said in his Sunday interview with NBC host Peter Alexander. 'They move around from space to space. You see this with African American voters as well.'
Non-Hispanic voters in the seven swing states who were polled also favor Trump to handle immigration more than Biden.
Forty-nine percent of non-Hispanic voters in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin say they trust the border hawk former president, compared to 34 percent of those who say they trust Biden more.
The poll shows 14 percent are undecided.
Migration and the southern border crisis remains a top issue for voters ahead of November's presidential election with nearly 8 million crossing illegally since Biden took office
Nearly 8 million migrants have crossed the southern border since Biden took office in January 2021 and reversed most of Trump-era policies on day one. He then spent the next three-and-a-half years implementing more lax policies that permitted more migrants to cross.
Then, Biden issued an executive order earlier this month that restricts migrants from seeking asylum at the southern border once it reaches 2,500 per day.
Republicans labeled the order a desperate attempt by the Biden administration to earn points with those upsets by the immigration crisis ahead of November's election.
