Visit ncicap. Org] midterm elections. We will hear from our panelists and take a number of audience questions in person. We plan on ending our conversation by 11 30 a. M. Let me introduce our panelists. Daniel cox is a senior fellow in a public opinion. Louis is a fellow at a ei and he was a senior fellow for American Progress or 20 years. It was a long time. Emily is the Vice President of polling at the cato institute. Marco is the director of race and ethnicity at the pew research center. I will let mark introduce the topic and has some slides that will hopefully magically appear behind us and in front of us to set the stage a bit for the conversation. Mark in for the introduction. I want to show you some basic data about how many immigrants are in the country with protections, at least prepandemic, and more about how many are eligible to vote, needing adult u. S. Citizens because that an important group. Not all of eligible voters are registered to vote but we are seeing a number of
Eastern here on cspan. You can follow it online at cspan. Org and on the free cspan now mobile app. Thanks for being on the program. We will have Election Results tomorrow at this program at 7 00 eastern. We will take you live to the American Enterprise institute and a panel looking at the politics of immigrants. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] midterm elections. We will hear from our panelists and take a number of audience questions in person. We plan on ending our conversation by 11 30 a. M. Let me introduce our panelists. Daniel cox is a senior fellow in a public opinion. Louis is a fellow at a ei and he was a senior fellow for American Progress or 20 years. It was a long time. Emily is the Vice President of polling at the cato institute. Marco is the director of race and ethnicity at the pew research center. I will let mark introduce the topic and has some slides that will hope
Naturalized immigrants and their u. S. Born descendants. The American Enterprise institute hosted the discussion. Its an hour and a half. Good afternoon, and good morning. Welcome to the enterprise american institute. Im so used to hosting events on the afternoon. Good morning. Welcome to the American Enterprise entered institute. I am delighted to host this event on the politics of immigrants. A warm welcome to our online viewership and our tv viewership. For online viewers, submit your questions to the website, or via twitter with askaeiecon. Today is election day. Excellent timing for this event. While immigration has played a central role in recent years, less attention has been faced in the politics of immigrants themselves. Naturalized citizens can vote, residents can donate to local campaigns and immigrants can engage in a variety of nonelectoral political activity. These groups are numerous. 10 of voters are immigrants, as mark will explain in a little bit. Some 60 Million Peop