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Mark Z. Barabak: Could immigrants be America's new swing voter group?

A sign points the way to an early voting location in Phoenix, Arizona on Oct. 16, 2020.

Yajaira Gonzalez became a U.S. citizen and a registered Democrat on the same day.

She arrived from Mexico 20 years ago, and was granted temporary legal status in 2012 after President Barack Obama established DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The policy allows some immigrants who were brought illegally to the U.S. as children to avoid deportation.

After Gonzalez married and gained citizenship, joining the Democratic Party seemed a natural step. She appreciated the party's relatively supportive stance toward immigration and immigrants, a contrast with the antagonism of Republicans under President Donald Trump.

But Gonzalez, a scholarship coordinator at the University of Nebraska in Omaha, has been disappointed with President Joe Biden.

"He made

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