| Description |
In the United States (U.S.), there are approximately 11 million non-citizen Latinos'. A majority of non-citizen Latinos' are from Mexico and Central and South America. For the last decade, there has been a decline among new arrivals. In this time, federal immigration agencies working in partnership with state and local law enforcement agencies have developed and implemented administrative immigration policies and programs ranging from incarceration, and increased use of biometric measures, to detain and deport noncitizen Latinos'. Under these policies and programs, the relationship and trust exhibited between elected officials, public services and institutions, and members of the community, notably Hispanics and Latinos, have deteriorated. Research has found that administrative immigration policies and programs have had negative consequences on an individual's satisfaction with the future, confidence in the country's future, and outlook in one's position in American society. Given the dearth of information on administrative immigration policies and programs and non-citizen Latinos' in the U.S., using the Pew Research Center 2018 National Survey of Latinos, one of a small number of national studies examining Latinos'/ Hispanics' concerning the 2018 elections, economics, politics, immigrant integration, discrimination, and administrative immigration policies and programs, this research study will examine the relationship between non-citizen Latinos' concerns and administrative immigration policies and programs. The Pew Research Center 2018 National Survey of Latinos, is a nationally representative sample of 1,501 Latino adults in the U.S. To date, to our knowledge, little research has investigated the relationship between U.S. administrative immigration policies and programs and the concerns of noncitizen Latinos'. This is a crucial conversation that elected officials, research scholars, law iii enforcement personnel, and members of the broader community need to have. The findings from this research study will have important implications for the well-being of non-citizen Latinos' in the U.S. |
