{"id":5934,"date":"2016-10-06T08:22:37","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T13:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/?p=5934"},"modified":"2016-10-06T08:22:37","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T13:22:37","slug":"the-influence-of-naturalized-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2016\/10\/06\/the-influence-of-naturalized-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"The Influence of Naturalized Voters"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As the election edges ever closer, the phenomenon of Donald Trump continues to grow. Trump has a\u00a0realistic opportunity to become the next president of the United States, but a recent jump in immigrants applying for citizenship this year might change the outcome once November comes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Manuel Pastor<\/span><\/a>, professor of sociology and director of the Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration at <\/span>USC<\/span><\/a>, recently wrote an <\/span>article<\/span><\/a> in the <\/span>LA Times<\/span><\/a> about the increasing number of applications for U.S. citizenship. \u00a0From March to June of 2016, the number of immigrants who applied to become naturalized citizens is up 32% over the previous year, and m<\/span>any of these naturalized citizens might be eligible to vote this coming November. \u00a0A new report from the Center for the Study of Immigration Integration examined how significant an impact this increase in naturalized citizens might have if they are eligible to vote in the 2016 presidential election. Pastor explains,<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c[T]he newly naturalized voters\u00a0we counted\u00a0could make a difference.\u00a0In Florida,\u00a0they\u00a0constitute more than 6% of the voting age population. In Nevada, that share is\u00a0more than 5%; in Virginia, 4%;\u00a0and in Arizona, 3%. The results in recent general elections in these states have been so close that these new citizens \u2014\u00a0if they are registered and turn out \u2014 could tip the tallies.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the election edges ever closer, the phenomenon of Donald Trump continues to grow. Trump has a\u00a0realistic opportunity to become the next president of the United States, but a recent jump in immigrants applying for citizenship this year might change the outcome once November comes. Manuel Pastor, professor of sociology and director of the Center […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,14],"tags":[239,89,40355,39115,39111,109],"class_list":["post-5934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-race","tag-elections","tag-immigration","tag-naturalized-citizens","tag-politics","tag-race","tag-voting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5936,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5934\/revisions\/5936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}