{"id":19840,"date":"2018-10-25T22:23:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T22:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19840"},"modified":"2018-10-25T22:23:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T22:23:55","slug":"for-us-latinos-life-is-worsening-under-trump-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19840","title":{"rendered":"For US Latinos, life is worsening under Trump: survey"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Half of US Latinos<\/a> feel their lives have gotten worse under Donald Trump’s<\/a> presidency, according to a new survey published by Pew Research Center two weeks before midterm elections<\/a>, which are seen as a\u00a0referendum on the president’s performance.<\/p>\n

Published on Thursday, the findings marked a significant increase from a previous poll conducted weeks after Trump’s election, which found that 32 percent of Latinos felt their lives had worsened over the previous year.<\/p>\n

The survey also found that 49 percent of Latinos “have serious concerns” about their place in US society and more than half worry a relative or friend could be deported.<\/p>\n

Additionally, more than two-thirds felt that Trump’s policies “have been harmful to Hispanics”, marking a significant increase from the 15 percent who felt former President Barack Obama’s policies were harmful in 2010 or the 41 percent who deemed George W Bush’s policies harmful in 2007.<\/p>\n

An estimated 29 million Latinos are eligible to vote in the upcoming midterm elections, which are slated to take place on November 6.<\/p>\n

The midterm vote will decide all 435 seats in the House of Representatives, 35 of the 100 Senate seats and 39 state and territorial governorships, among others.<\/p>\n

Anti-immigration measures\u00a0<\/h2>\n

During his 2016 presidential campaign, Trump railed against immigrants,<\/a> vowed to increase deportations and promised to building a wall on the US-Mexico border.<\/p>\n

Since taking office, his administration’s “zero tolerance” has prompted broad criticism from rights groups and immigration support organisations.<\/p>\n

After public outcry over the separation of immigrant children and their parents, the Trump administration rolled back the practice.<\/p>\n

But before it was upended, the practice led to the separation of some 2,600 children from their parents. Hundreds of children remain separated from their families.<\/p>\n

Republicans and Democrats have both seized on immigration as an issue to mobilise voters to head to the polls next month.<\/p>\n

In House, Senate and governorship races, more than $124m has been spent on more than 280,000 immigration-related ads, according to a CNN analysis of data provided by Kantar Media\/CMAG.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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