Immigrant voters swung 40 points toward GOP on immigration since 2020: CNN

Since 2020, legal immigrant voters have shifted 40 points toward the GOP on immigration and almost half supported President Donald Trump in 2024, according to a CNN analysis.

"Foreign-born voters have gone tremendously to the right on this issue in 2024 and 2025 versus where they were in 2020 closest to or/trust more on immigration," CNN's Harry Enten said. "You go back to 2020, Democrats, get this, held a 32-point lead on this issue. Immigrant voters were in the Democratic camp. Jump forward to 2024-2025 look at that shift, a 40-point shift to the right among immigrant voters. Republicans now lead on this issue by eight points over Democrats, more so than any other group that I could find."

"The group of voters who became more hawkish on immigration were in fact, immigrants themselves, immigrants who are registered to vote in this country," he added. Enten went on to look at vote shares of immigrants in past elections.

"You remember when [Trump] first ran back in 2016, immigrant voters were one of his weakest spots," he said. "But look at this, Trump's vote share in presidential election among again, immigrant citizens, those who are registered to vote. Look at this. 2016 you got 36% of the vote. You go to 2020 39% of the vote. Look at this, in 2024 all the way up to 47% of the vote."

"So there may be all this stuff right about undocumented immigrants and Trump being harsh on them, but immigrant voters themselves have increasingly liked Donald Trump and have increasingly moved to the right on immigration into the Republican camp," he concluded.