Poll: GOP Driving Hispanics Away With Anti-Immigration Push

The Republicans’ hard-line stance on illegal immigration has reversed the GOP’s recent gains among Hispanic-American voters, whose loyalty to the Democratic Party has shot back up to the levels of the 1990s.

The Pew Hispanic Center has released a new survey showing that since July 2006 — when most Republican presidential candidates, and many of the party’s members of Congress, harshly attacked immigration legislation offering a pathway to citizenship for the undocumented — Hispanic support for the Democratic Party rose by 8 points and dropped 5 points for the GOP.”*

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