What Went Down At The Univision Democratic Debate

Sanders really did vote in 2006 for a House amendment to protect the Minutemen, a militia of private civilians that tried to block undocumented immigrants from entering the country, BuzzFeed News reported in December.

One of the debate sponsors — Spanish-language broadcaster Univision — is based in Miami, where the debate is taking place, and the focus it is bringing on immigration makes sense ahead of next Tuesday’s primary in Florida. In a Univision-Washington Post poll of likely voters in Florida’s Democratic primary conducted last week, 3 percent of respondents were Cuban and 12 percent more were Hispanics of non-Cuban origin. And 4 percent of respondents preferred to be interviewed in Spanish.

As my colleague Ben Casselman has written, most new immigrants to the U.S. are coming not from Latin America, but from Asian countries. While Mexico is still the largest single source of new immigrants, the numbers of new residents born in India and China is rising.