{"id":12582,"date":"2023-08-03T19:31:20","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T19:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latinosreadytovote.org\/?p=12582"},"modified":"2023-08-03T19:31:20","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T19:31:20","slug":"as-deportations-rise-to-record-levels-most-latinos-oppose-obamas-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latinosreadytovote.org\/?p=12582","title":{"rendered":"As Deportations Rise to Record Levels, Most Latinos Oppose Obama\u2019s Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>By<\/em> <strong>Alex Gonzalez<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/latinosreadytovote.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Latinos-Disapprove-Obabamma.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/latinosreadytovote.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Latinos-Disapprove-Obabamma.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-343\" title=\"Latinos Disapprove Obabamma\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>New Polls show &nbsp;By a ratio of more than two-to-one (59% versus 27%), Latinos disapprove of the way the Obama administration is handling deportations of unauthorized immigrants, according to a new national survey of Latino adults by the Pew Hispanic Center, a project of the Pew Research Center<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deportations have reached record levels under President Obama, rising to an annual average of nearly 400,000<sup><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewhispanic.org\/2011\/12\/28\/as-deportations-rise-to-record-levels-most-latinos-oppose-obamas-policy\/#fn-9862-1\">1<\/a><\/sup> since 2009, about 30% higher than the annual average during the second term of the Bush administration and about double the annual average during George W. Bush\u2019s first term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than eight-in-ten (81%) of the nation\u2019s estimated 11.2 million unauthorized immigrants are of Hispanic origin, according to Pew Hispanic Center estimates (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewhispanic.org\/2011\/02\/01\/unauthorized-immigrant-population-brnational-and-state-trends-2010\/\">Passel and Cohn, 2011<\/a>). Hispanics accounted for an even larger share of deportees in 2010\u201497%. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/xlibrary\/assets\/statistics\/yearbook\/2010\/ois_yb_2010.pdf\">U.S. Department of Homeland Security, 2011a<\/a>). Read Full Polls at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewhispanic.org\/2011\/12\/28\/as-deportations-rise-to-record-levels-most-latinos-oppose-obamas-policy\/\">Pew Hispanic Center<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>By Alex Gonzalez New Polls show &nbsp;By a ratio of more than two-to-one (59% versus 27%), Latinos disapprove of the way the Obama administration is handling deportations of unauthorized immigrants, according to a new national <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/latinosreadytovote.org\/?p=12582\" title=\"As Deportations Rise to Record Levels, Most Latinos Oppose Obama\u2019s Policy\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12582","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-slider"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinosreadytovote.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinosreadytovote.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinosreadytovote.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinosreadytovote.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinosreadytovote.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/latinosreadytovote.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12584,"href":"https:\/\/latinosreadytovote.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12582\/revisions\/12584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinosreadytovote.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinosreadytovote.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinosreadytovote.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}