{"id":14081,"date":"2014-06-02T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T14:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/%year%\/%monthnum%\/%day%\/top-issue-for-hispanics-hint-its-not-immigration\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T03:21:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T08:21:35","slug":"top-issue-for-hispanics-hint-its-not-immigration","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2014\/06\/02\/top-issue-for-hispanics-hint-its-not-immigration\/","title":{"rendered":"Top issue for Hispanics? Hint: It\u2019s not immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"

A broad overhaul of the nation\u2019s immigration laws has been debated and discussed among policy makers for a dozen years, but Congress has yet to pass a bill. Last month, several Hispanic advocacy leaders criticized the president for policies that have contributed to the more than three million immigrants<\/a> deported since 2004. Yet now, some Latino leaders are wondering if immigration reform is perhaps \u201ccrowding out other issues facing the Latino community<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

\"Immigration<\/a><\/figure>\n\n

Immigration reform \u201cnow occupies almost all the Latino policy agenda, sucking up, as one colleague recently put it, all the oxygen on Latino issues,\u201d according to a recent commentary from Angelo Falc\u00f3n, National Institute for Latino Policy president.<\/p>\n\n

Indeed, when Pew Research Center has surveyed the Hispanic community, there are several issues that consistently rank higher on the list than immigration. In 2013, some 57% of Hispanic registered voters called education an \u201cextremely important\u201d issue facing the nation today. That\u2019s compared with jobs and the economy (52%) and health care (43%). Just 32% said immigration.<\/p>\n\n

Since 2007, about one-third of Hispanic registered voters have called immigration an \u201cextremely important\u201d issue to them personally. Even among Hispanic immigrants, the share was 35% in 2012.<\/p>\n\n

While about seven-in-ten of all Latinos in 2013<\/a> said it was important for Congress to pass significant new immigration legislation that year, the share who said so was higher among immigrants (80%) than among the U.S. born (57%). Among the general public, 49% of U.S. adults<\/a> said so when asked the same question in February.<\/p>\n\n

In some respects, Hispanics\u2019 focus on education as a top issue makes sense. In 2010, Hispanics had the highest birth rates<\/a>\u201480 births per 1,000 women of childbearing age, compared with 64 for blacks, 59 for whites and 56 for Asians. Fully one-in-three (33%) Hispanics<\/a> are school age (under 18), compared with one-in-five (20%) whites.<\/p>\n\n

The economy has been another top issue among Hispanics, who said the recession hit them harder<\/a> than other groups. Among Hispanics in 2012, the economy and jobs (54%) ranked about as high as education (55%) as an issue \u201cextremely important\u201d to them personally. The unemployment rate among Hispanics peaked at 12.3% in 2010<\/a>, compared with 8.9% among non-Hispanics. The unemployment rate for Hispanics has steadily fallen since then (8.9% in 2013), but remains above pre-recession levels (4.9% in 2006).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are several issues that consistently rank higher on the list than immigration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":302,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"sub_headline":null,"sub_title":"","_prc_public_revisions":[],"_ppp_expiration_hours":0,"_ppp_enabled":false,"ai_generated_summary":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"relatedPosts":[],"_prc_fork_parent":0,"_prc_fork_status":"","_prc_active_fork":0,"datacite_doi":"","datacite_doi_citation":"","_prc_seo_qr_attachment_id":0,"spoken_article_player_enabled":true,"displayBylines":true,"footnotes":"","prc_watchers":[]},"categories":[89,157,27,93,49],"bylines":[629],"collection":[],"datasets":[],"_post_visibility":[],"formats":[467],"_fund_pool":[],"languages":[],"regions-countries":[515],"research-teams":[529],"workflow-status":[],"class_list":["post-14081","short-read","type-short-read","status-publish","hentry","category-demographics-politics","category-hispanic-latino-voters","category-immigration-migration","category-issue-priorities","category-voter-demographics","bylines-jens-manuel-krogstad","formats-short-read","regions-countries-united-states","research-teams-global-migration-and-demography"],"label":"Short Read","post_parent":0,"word_count":357,"canonical_url":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2014\/06\/02\/top-issue-for-hispanics-hint-its-not-immigration\/","art_direction":{"A1":{"id":26255,"rawUrl":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2014\/06\/FT_14.05.30_HispanicIssues.png","url":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2014\/06\/FT_14.05.30_HispanicIssues.png?w=420&h=317&crop=1","width":420,"height":317,"chartArt":false},"A2":{"id":26255,"rawUrl":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2014\/06\/FT_14.05.30_HispanicIssues.png","url":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2014\/06\/FT_14.05.30_HispanicIssues.png?w=268&h=151&crop=1","width":268,"height":151,"chartArt":false},"A3":{"id":26255,"rawUrl":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2014\/06\/FT_14.05.30_HispanicIssues.png","url":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2014\/06\/FT_14.05.30_HispanicIssues.png?w=194&h=110&crop=1","width":194,"height":110,"chartArt":false},"A4":{"id":26255,"rawUrl":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2014\/06\/FT_14.05.30_HispanicIssues.png","url":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2014\/06\/FT_14.05.30_HispanicIssues.png?w=268&h=151&crop=1","width":268,"height":151,"chartArt":false},"XL":{"id":26255,"rawUrl":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2014\/06\/FT_14.05.30_HispanicIssues.png","url":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2014\/06\/FT_14.05.30_HispanicIssues.png?w=420&h=405&crop=1","width":420,"height":405,"chartArt":false},"social":{"id":26255,"rawUrl":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2014\/06\/FT_14.05.30_HispanicIssues.png","url":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2014\/06\/FT_14.05.30_HispanicIssues.png?w=420&h=533&crop=1","width":420,"height":533,"chartArt":false}},"_embeds":[],"watchers":[],"table_of_contents":[],"datacite_doi":"","prc_seo_data":{"title":"Top issue for Hispanics? 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