At a time when a number of candidates are locked in ferocious competition for the ballots of “voting blocs” that might turn the electoral tide in their favor, one large and growing bloc of voters has been consistently overlooked and politically underestimated: New Americans.

 

Tuyet G. Duong, AAJC's senior staff attorney of the immigration and immigrant rights program, will join other immigration experts to discuss "The New American Electorate: The Growing Political Power of Immigrants and Their Children," which examines the growing electoral clout of not only immigrants who are naturalized U.S. citizens, but also the U.S.-born children of immigrants who were raised during the current era of immigration from Latin America and Asia that began in 1965.

 

This briefing will provide insight into the ranks of New American voters, along with Latino and Asian voters, who have been growing rapidly this decade and will likely play a pivotal role in elections at all levels in the years to come— particularly in battleground states like Florida, Colorado, Nevada, and New Mexico.