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We have more in common than we think. Despite efforts by politicians to divide us and make us fear each other, we are stronger when we are united and use our power to build a future in which we all have the freedom to thrive.

In critical swing states across the country, we’re communicating this message to the voters who will decide this election. We recently completed our research into swing voters’ attitudes toward immigrants, immigration, and the 2020 election, and now we’re putting it to use in November to win a pro-immigrant future that works for all of us. Check out the latest about our work in Politico this week.

What’s Next?

As Politico reported, we’re building a plan to reach key voters in battleground states who would otherwise only hear Donald Trump’s divisive and bigoted rhetoric toward immigrants, and we’re going to show them there’s another vision on the ballot – a vision of leadership that unites us, recognizing we can only meet the challenges we face if we do it together, as one country.

But we’ll need your help. In practice, this means creating ads and using advanced targeting tactics to reach the right voters. And that takes money.

Will you help us communicate with the voters who will decide this election and ensure they hear an inclusive vision for America? >>>

Help us maximize our reach, so we can show the country that together, we can build a better, more inclusive future that benefits all of us. We can create a society and economy that gives everyone a fair shot, no matter what you look like or where you were born.

Help us work to build a better future this November.

The stakes have never been higher – let’s make a change in this country and build an America in which we all belong!

In Solidarity,

Marielena Hincapie
Executive Director
NILC Immigrant Justice Fund

Paid for by NILC Immigrant Justice Fund, immigrantjusticefund.org, not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee.

Pro-immigrant messages could move undecided voters in swing states
When using pro-immigrant messaging, Joe Biden’s favorability rose by 15 percentage points with persuadable and likely voters in the key swing states.
Laura Barrón-López
July 27, 2020 
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/27/immigrants-undecided-voters-swing-states-382076

The poll sampled 800 likely voters, including 600 persuadable voters — those neither supporting likely Democratic nominee Biden nor Trump — in Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The group oversampled likely Black and Latino voters to study them more closely.

Because the poll was conducted online with respondents who opted in, there is no margin of sampling error.

The NILC Immigrant Justice Fund plans to launch a campaign for the first time in a presidential election year. The campaign will target undecided voters on immigration policy and include digital ads in selected states. It is expected to launch by mid-August. The group aims to spend up to $3 million on the effort. 

“Democrats are afraid to lean in” on immigration policy during elections, said Marielena Hincapié executive director of the Immigrant Justice Fund. “In fact, they don't have a choice with Trump.”

Trump is "scapegoating immigrants to distract from his leadership and his failures over the last four years,” Hincapié continued. “We realized that we actually needed to step up our own involvement in the political and electoral process and go beyond policy and legal advocacy.”

Trump recently took a step to remove undocumented immigrants from being counted on the census. Trump’s also sought to reduce foreign workers in the country and said his administration will try again to end the popular protections for immigrants who came the the country illegally as children, known as Dreamers.

Pro-immigrant messages that focus on uniting the country and the economy were the most effective, according to the poll. And immigrant doctors and nurses were the strongest messengers, followed by teachers and Dreamers, according to a memo by ALG Research, which conducted the poll and has worked for Biden during the 2020 race.

Biden has amped up his outreach to Latinos in key states like Arizona and Florida in recent weeks, hiring a Latino polling firm and launching TV ads. Biden didn’t do targeted appeals to Hispanics during the primary. 

Biden is leading Trump in Arizona by 4 points and in Florida by 5 points, according to a recent CNN poll.

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