Just a few years ago, if any political analyst or pundit had predicted that a US presidential candidate would gain a larger share of the Latino vote by promising to shut down the border, slam the door on migrants, deport millions of people, and even deny citizenship to babies born to immigrants, they would have been politely called misinformed or plainly insane.
As has been widely reported, Donald Trump achieved precisely that in November. And now, in his first week back in the Oval Office, he is rolling out policies to achieve those goals.
Undoubtedly, the main issue that drew Hispanics to Trump was the economy. Like many other voters, they longed for a solution to high prices, and they looked back positively at the state of the economy during his first term before the pandemic crash.
