Top issue for Hispanics? Hint: It’s not immigration

For decades, policy makers have discussed and discussed the major reforms of domestic immigration laws, but Congress has not yet passed the bill. Last month some leaders of the Hispanic supporters criticized the President's policy that brought more than 3 million immigrants that were expelled since 2004. However, some Latin American leaders want to know if immigration reforms "squeeze out other problems that the Latin American community is facing".

According to a recent comment by Angelo Falcón, chairman of the Latin American National Institute for Policy Studies, immigration reform is "absorbing the oxygen of all Latin American problems and as one colleague said, almost all Latin It occupies American policy challenges. "

Indeed, when the Pew Research Center surveyed the Hispanic community, some problems ranked higher in the list than immigrants. In 2013, about 57% of Hispanic registered voters stated that education is an "extremely important" issue facing the country today. This is a comparison between employment and economy (52%) and medical care (43%). Only 32% said immigrants

Since 2007, about a third of Hispanic registered voters call immigrants a "very important" problem. Even Hispanic immigrants, this percentage was 35% in 2012.

I thought that one in seven Latin American-Americans passed important immigration law in the same year in 2013, but the percentage of immigrants (80%) was higher than the number of live births in America (57%) is. In the general public, 49% of American adults asked the same question when asked in February.

In several ways, the focus on Hispanic education education as a top priority is justified. In 2010, Hispanics had the highest fertility rate - 80 births per 1,000 women of childbearing age, 64 blacks, 59 white people and 56 Asians. One third of Hispanic age (33%) is a school age (under 18), one in five (20%) Caucasian

Economic problems are another top priority for Hispanics that the recession is more serious than other groups. Among the Hispanic Americans of 2012, the ranking of economics and employment (54%) was as high as education (55%), which was personally "very important" for them. Hispanic Americans 'unemployment rate peaked at 12.3% in 2010, but non-Hispanic Americans' unemployment rate was 9%. Since that time, the Hispanic unemployment rate has declined steadily (8.9% in 2013), but it still exceeds the pre-recession level (4.9% in 2006)

Despite the new attention to immigration issues, it is worth remembering that immigrants are not ranked higher in our annual public opinion survey on the main issues the Americans believe in the president and parliament. Even among Hispanics, immigrants are not a top priority; in the 2014 survey Hispanics cites education (92%), employment and economics (91%), and medical care (86%) as extreme Although it is a very important question, immigration evaluation is low (73%)

In last year's presidential election the problem of immigration was highlighted, but American Hispanics did not think that this was a top priority for the new government and parliament. This is a model similar to the previous year's Pew Research Center poll. According to a new survey 46% of respondents ranked at the end of the five priorities tested in the new survey, the top priority of the new government of 2017 and Congress should be to cope with immigration He said that. On the contrary, Hispanic Americans believe that education is a top priority for the new Trump regime and new parliament. 73% of respondents stated that improvement of the education system should be a top priority in 2017. Other important priorities include protecting the country from future terrorist attacks (69%) and strengthening the national economy (66%). The following three problems are reducing medical expenses (54%)

The investigation by Pewispanic in 2016 draws another picture. Latina registered voters believe that economics, medical care, terrorism, immigration and education are the top five votes cast in 2016. Apart from healthcare, immigration control and terrorism, other issues important to this community may be related to drug policy and related outcomes. Accounting for 69%. However, it has not appeared in opinion polls on narcotic policy issues.