By JAMES ARKIN | 7/22/13 2:49 PM EDT
POLITICO

Unauthorized Hispanic immigrants are much more likely to identify as Democrats than as Republicans, according to a study released Monday.

The report from the Pew Research Center suggests that of Latino immigrants who are likely unauthorized, 31 percent identify as Democrats while just 4 percent identify as Republicans. Of those who don’t identify with a party but lean one way or the other, 23 percent lean toward the Democratic Party while just 15 percent lean towards Republicans.

The study also found that the longer Hispanic immigrants of any legal status were in the U.S., the more likely they were to identify with one of the major parties, particularly Democrats. Of those in the U.S. for fewer than 10 years, 26 percent identified with Democrats and 9 percent with Republicans. For those who had been in the U.S. for 20 years or more, the number identifying with Democrats jumped to 54 percent while the number identifying with Republicans went up to 10 percent.

According to a POLITICO analysis done in April, if undocumented immigrants had voted in 2012 and followed the same electoral trends as other Hispanic voters, President Obama’s narrow victory would have been significantly wider.

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