Inside the US election campaigns

Understanding the Immigration Debate and Latino Voter Impact

Immigration is one of the defining issues in this year’s election campaigns, with the potential to significantly shape the outcome in November. Donald Trump calls for mass deportations of undocumented migrants and portrays immigration as a point of vulnerability for the Democratic Party. Kamala Harris supports the bipartisan immigration reform bill that failed to pass the Senate earlier this year, but has not yet released a more detailed platform on immigration.

With immigration policy at the forefront of political debate, Latino voters—many of whom are deeply affected by these policies—are set to be a powerful force. Join us for a timely conversation with The New York Times journalist Jazmine Ulloa who will provide insights from her frontline reporting, highlighting the issues that matter most to this diverse community. How has the national debate on immigration shifted since the last election, and what are the key factors driving this change? Are there any emerging trends in Latino voter registration and participation that could shape the election? How do Latino voters perceive the candidates’ stands on immigration, and how might this influence their voting behavior? We look forward to discussing these and further questions together with Jazmine Ulloa and Dr. Philipp Adorf from the University of Bonn.

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Jazmine Ulloa

She is a journalist covering national politics and the 2024 presidential election for The New York Times. She came to the paper from The Boston Globe, where she covered Congress and the 2020 presidential campaign from Washington. A native of El Paso, Texas, she previously worked for newspapers in Brownsville, San Antonio and Austin before joining The Los Angeles Times in its Sacramento bureau. In 2018, she traveled California, highlighting close midterm races, and wrote about the state’s fights with the Trump administration over immigration and the border wall.

Philipp Adorf

Philipp Adorf is a research associate at the University of Bonn. His work focuses on the rise of the Republican Party in the U.S. South since the 1960s, the political consequences of the growth in ethnic diversity in the United States, and the popularity of right-wing populist parties among working-class voters on both sides of the Atlantic.