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The Young Latino Voter

ROUSED BY TURBULENCE

Defined by Uncertainty AGE OF YEAR
AVG.
18-34 YR.
OLD BY MURDER DACA
A review of social and political events occurring over YEAR COVID-19 OF DECISION
the lives of young Latinos marks breakthroughs that GEORGE Supreme
FLOYD
26
capture their growing influence, such as Justice Sonia YEARS 2020 Dispropor- Court blocks
tionate
the Adminis-
Police
affects on
Sotomayor’s appointment to the Supreme Court and US Latinos brutality / tration’s
record numbers of Latinos elected to Congress. Over the protests attempt to
BLM
dismantle
past several years, young Latinos have grown concerned DACA
about increased prejudice and bias against Latinos and
other people of color, including strict enforcement EL PASO SHOOTING,
BORDER CRISIS
of immigration policies and mass deportations of 2019 El Paso’s shooting and children
unauthorized Hispanics. The combination of a deep, separated from parents at the border
confident sense of empowerment due to their advances,
LATINAS IN
mixed with frustration from perceived denigration, is CONGRESS PARKLAND
One of many
likely to prompt engagement and participation in the 2018 Record Numbers school shottings
affecting many
in the
upcoming election. US House of students and their
Representatives families
2017
Finding Their Voice
22 2016 TRUMP
Young Latinos are speaking up, determined to influence YEARS Elected President
the future direction of our country. In prior years,
Hispanics questioned whether their vote would make SAME-SEX
any difference and they resisted politics, but our 2015 MARRIAGE
data shows 2020 to be different. Young people of all Wins the constitutional
right to marriage
backgrounds are more aware, engaged, and motivated
to influence change on the most pressing issues. 2014

Six in ten (62%) young Hispanics say that Latinos will 2013
cast the decisive vote in the upcoming presidential and
congressional elections, and three-quarters (75%) say
DACA PASSES
the presidential election of 2020 is more important than 18 YEARS 2012 DACA passes under the
the 2016 election. This new generation of Latinos is Obama Administration
exuding confidence and commitment that appears to be
a reawakening. 2011

2010

SOTOMAYOR
2009 Sworn in as the first Latina
75% Supreme Court Justice
of young Latino voters

say the presidential
election in 2020 is more important OBAMA GREAT
RECESSION
than in 2016. 14 YEARS 2008 Elected Financial crisis
President hits the US
OBAMA DEPORTATIONS
2020 Removes more undocumented immigrants
than Clinton or Bush
Source: Telemundo. Young Latino Voter Survey, ANTI-IMMIGRANT
June 2020. Trump’s platform gains steam

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