The number of eligible immigrant voters around the country has almost doubled since 2000. And in Texas, these naturalized citizens make up about 10% of all eligible voters across the state, according to a new analysis from the Pew Research Center.

Around the country, about 23.2 million immigrants will be eligible to vote this year, and some 1.8 million of them live in Texas.

So what can their impact be on Texas politics?

Some of these voters may be motivated to head to the polls by immigration policy changes made by the Trump administration, said Mark Hugo Lopez, director of global migration and demography research at the Pew Research Center.

“It’s possible that this group could be more interested in voting because they themselves went through those processes that are changing,” Lopez said. “Latino immigrants have consistently ranked immigration reform as a top concern.”

President Donald Trump has through various executive actions been reshaping the way immigrants are admitted to the U.S. and how they receive legal status. Just this week, a new set of rules that test immigrants’ financial stability went into effect, and experts say they will limit the levels of legal immigration to the U.S.

Lopez added that it’s not safe to assume these immigrants will all vote for the same party, because they come from many backgrounds and countries of origin.

The Pew Research Center’s analysis found that of the 23 million eligible immigrant voters in the nation, most are Hispanic or Asian:

7.5 million are Hispanic.

6.9 million are Asian.

4.8 million are white.

And 2.3 million are black.

It’s important to keep in mind that many of those 1.8 million naturalized citizen Texan voters might already be voting, said Joshua Blank, research director at the Texas Politics Project, and aren’t necessarily new to ranks of voters. Last year, thousands of these naturalized voters were incorrectly flagged in the state’s failed voter-roll purge.

But these voters do represent an opportunity for both Democrats and Republicans to expand their voting bases.

“Republicans have traditionally and more so recently relied on older, white voters who show up but aren’t increasing in population,” Blank said. “Democrats tend to rely on white progressives being part of their base, but nonwhite voters are increasingly becoming more important to their pathway to electoral competitiveness.”

The uphill battle for Democrats, Blank added, is that those nonwhite groups are statistically less likely to turn out to vote.

“We don’t see turnout among Hispanics, African Americans or Asians match their share of the population,” Blank said.

The Texas Democratic Party’s strategy to make momentum in the state in recent years has focused on getting millions of unregistered voters in Texas to participate, said Luke Warford, the Texas Democratic Party’s voter expansion director.

The party estimates that around 2.6 million of those Texans are potential Democrats, based on their younger and more diverse demographics, Warford said.

“If voter registration reflected the diversity of the state, we know Texas would be Democrat,” he said.

To reach those potential voters, Warford said the party has hired more organizers from communities of Latino, Asian American, Pacific Islander and disabled people.

“We’re hiring organizers that are working to register people in their communities,” he said. “We’re trying to be as inclusive as possible.”

Texas is among the top five states, according to the Pew Research Center’s analysis, with the largest number of immigrant voters:

5.5. million live in California.

2.5 million live in New York.

2.5 million live in Florida.

1.8 million live in Texas.

1.2 million live in New Jersey.

Naturalized citizens are crucial to expanding the electorate, Warford said. Among Latinos and Asians, turnout in the 2018 election was higher for naturalized citizens than for those born in the U.S., the Pew Research Center reported last May.

“You see a lot of excitement among recently naturalized citizens to exercise their right to vote,” he said. “So we’re very excited to register folks from those communities.”

The Texas Republican Party is also working to register more voters and has long welcomed naturalized citizens, Texas GOP chairman James Dickey said.

“The Republican Party of Texas has many members and candidates who are first-generation Americans who have come here because they know that Texas and the United States provide greater opportunity than any other country in the world,” Dickey said in a statement. “The Party has consistently welcomed all those who come to our great country in a manner that respects our laws.”