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Family, they have they're religious catholic, socially conservative, especially on brgs. these are a national constituency. they are a striving immigrant group and that is a natural conservative constituency. >> bill: joining us from washington to react is the democratic congressman luis gutierrez. so what do you think about charles' analysis that hispanic american voting block, obviously talking generally here could be persuaded to come into the republic party? what do you think about that? >> i think if you make -- charles makes an argument that has some truth to it. there are 52 million lat...

Family, they have they're religious catholic, socially conservative, especially on brgs. these are a national constituency. they are a striving immigrant group and that is a natural conservative constituency. >> bill: joining us from washington to react is the democratic congressman luis gutierrez. so what do you think about charles' analysis that hispanic american voting block, obviously talking generally here could be persuaded to come into the republic party? what do you think about that? >> i think if you make -- charles makes an argument that has some truth to it. there are 52 million lat...

you might think that hispanics are the fastest growing immigrant group in the country but you'd be wrong. a new pew studies shows that asians have surpassed them. 31% for hispanics. 10 years ago asians made up 19% of new immigrants. the number has almost doubled in just a decade. let me bring in deborah faye err rick. a lot of people are talking in our morning meeting about what this means politically, what it means economically. asian immigration way up. it still only makes up 5% of the u.s. population. explain this to us. >> reporter: it's not 5 or 6%. what we're talking about is a...

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Noncitizens about 1600 are here in the miami area. so we looked at the numbers and we found that 58% of those people, of the 2700 potential noncitizens, again 58% were hispanic. p they also tended overwhelmingly to be independent voters, no party affiliation. the least likely to be on the list were republicans and nonhispanic whites. when you look at the statistics you can see where people walk away with the idea that it's racially or ethnically motivated, but this is what happens when you go after noncitizens. florida's largest immigrant group happen to be hispanics and they're disproportiona...