A Significant Portion of Latino Voters Went for Trump

Every year, almost exactly one million American citizens of Hispanic descent turn 18 and become eligible to vote.

When this figure first came to light, progressives cheered.  After all, we wondered, won’t virtually every one of these young people embrace the liberal values that apply to them and their families?  One would think that all Latin0 voters, almost to a person, would favor the party that supports:

 • Humane treatment of immigrants, especially those with babies and young children, many  of whom walked hundreds, some thousands of miles, in an attempt to cross our southern border

 • Conformity to the domestic and international laws that pertain here (to which we continually thumb our collective noses)

 • Continuation of DACA, many of whose recipients are now teaching our kids’ math and chemistry

 • The people who pick our vegetables, clean our houses, watch our children, wash our restaurant dishes, all while contributing to our tax base

Trump’s plan is to command law enforcement to drive through our cities and towns, rounding up and detaining the undocumented, then deporting them to their countries of origin.  How appealing does that sound?

OK, now check out the graphic above.  How is it possible Trump steadily gained ground in the last two elections?