Sixty-four percent of 'immigration voters' cast ballots for Trump. What were they voting for?

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Sixty-four percent of 'immigration voters' cast ballots for Trump. What were they voting for?

Published: 
Fri, Nov 18th 2016 @ 2:28 pm EST  by  Jeremy Beck

As it became increasingly clear that Donald Trump would win the election, Rachel Maddow and Chris Matthews of MSNBC began examining what role the immigration debate played in the election:

Immigration was the most-searched election issue in the week leading up to November 8th according to Google News Lab. Trump won 64% of voters who said immigration was the "most important issue." No presidential election is a referendum on a single issue but immigration was a core issue of both Donald Trump's and Hillary Clinton's campaigns and it does seem to have been one of the determining factors in the outcome of the election, just not in the way that many pundits predicted. Chris Cilliza of The Fix noted with interest that "Trump actually performed better among Hispanics than Romney did -- 29 percent to 27 percent. More tellingly, Clinton underperformed Obama's 2012 showing among Hispanics by six points (71 percent for Obama, 65 percent for Clinton.)"

https://www.numbersusa.com/blog/sixty-four-percent-immigration-voters-cast-ballots-trump-what-were-they-voting

[Fishrrman]

Where are the folks now who were saying, before the election, that "Americans didn't care" about illegal immigration -- or even legal immigration…?

Immigration matters.

It can aid a nation (as it did so with ours, when we controlled who was let in).

But uncontrolled, it will destroy it.
Seems like we're finding out about that now.
And the Western Europeans, as well.