[cripplecreek]

without making the dangerous trek through Mexico

We're going to go get them?

[allendale]

Just another tactic of the no borders,internationalist Democrats. Elections matter greatly.

[mark3681]

In regard to the voting issue: If they (the pols) are breaking the laws now (i.e. immigration, etc.) what’s to stop them from breaking/changing the laws in regards to voting? The constitution has nothing to do with it anymore.

[tanknetter]

Children cannot vote.

They aren't children forever. AND in many cases they have relatives here who can vote.

Even Permanent (aka. Legal) U.S. Residents are not citizens and thus cannot vote.

They won't be legal permanent residents forever. The goal is to provide them a path to citizenship.

One must be over the age of 18, and have been a permanent resident of the U.S. for 5 years before he or she can apply for citizenship.

Laws can change. And even if they don't Dems are running a marathon here, looking 20-30 years down the road.

Once citizenship is applied for, and one passes the test and pays the $700 fee, then, and only then, is he or she eligible to vote.

The fee can be paid for by someone else. Like La Raza. It can also be waived.

Assuming citizenship is attained, how such a person chooses to vote is a matter of personal preference, influenced by individual life experiences.

Everyone here is familiar with the "Knock and Drag" methodology of GOTV, right?

[shoff]

Reading this article puts my fears to rest.

Now I am sure the gang members, criminals, and assorted peasants brought up in a corrupt country who would lie about being a refugee would not lie on the voter registration form and vote illegally. Though they cut in line ahead of their own countrymen they will wait the required 5 years before voting in the party that will allow their relatives to also cut the line. Silly me I thought unchecked immigration was a bad for America as it was for the Roman empire.

[Vaduz]

1.Children cannot vote.
Bet their names are on the democrat voter list.

[abclily]

Now we’re going to airlift them in? At taxpayer expense? We’re being forced to pay for our own national destruction?

[kabar]

The author needs to get better informed about immigration and the electoral consequences. He creates a phony strawman and misses the real issue. Specifically,

Does this still sound like a great plan? Not so much.

Of course it is a terrible plan. We are not only facilitating the entry of more legal immigrants into the country, but we are setting a precedent that could apply globally. Why must only Central America benefit from being able to send their children out of such conditions. Africa and the Middle East could qualify for such a program along with any other place on the globe where the "children" are threatened. The numbers could be in the hundreds of millions.

The author misses the real costs of this Mariel-boatlift type tidal wave of "children." Most are teenagers and two-thirds are accompanied by family members. The real costs from this invasion come from the medical, educational, and incarceration costs that are mostly absorbed at the state and local level. Immigrants, legal and illegal, use welfare programs to a greater extent than the native born.

And if we have an amnesty, these additional "children" will add to the estimated $6.3 trillion it will cost the American taxpayer assuming their are only 12 million illegal aliens.

The author lays out why these "children" are not an immediate electoral threat. True enough, but LEGAL IMMIGRATION IS. We bring in 1.1 million legal immigrants a year, two thirds of whom will eventually vote Democrat. 87% of legal immigrants are minorities as defined by the USG, We have just had the two largest decades of LEGAL IMMIGRATION in our history with more than 27 million entering during that period. In 1970 one in 21 was foreign born; today it is one in 8, the highest in 90 years; and within a decade it will be one in 7 the highest in our history. By 2019 half of the children 18 and under will be minorities and by 2043 we will be a majority minority country.

Projections and graph courtesy Population Environment Balance, Sources: U.S. Census Bureau; Statistical Yearbook4 Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services-- Average 195,000 per year from 1921-1970

This has electoral consequences. Immigrants and minorities vote Dem two to one. In 1970 there were 9.7 million foreign born in this country; today there are 45 million. In 1970 we had a national population of 203 million; today it is 320 million. Every cohort that turns 18 annually is more and more Democrat. The demographics of the US in 2050 will look like that of CA today. Immigration's Impact on Republican Political Prospects, 1980 to 2012

The one statement in the article that was the most outrageous and uninformed was: Assuming citizenship is attained, how such a person chooses to vote is a matter of personal preference, influenced by individual life experiences.

I have no idea on what planet the author lives, but how anyone can make that statement is unbelievable. Does he really believe that the Democrats would be supporting these huge immigration levels, legal and illegal, if they weren't future Dem voters? Demography is destiny. We are being colonized by the Third World.

The real big hype is illegal immigration. While the public is being distracted by the shiny bauble, over a million LEGAL IMMIGRANTS are streaming into the country annually changing the composition of the electorate. They will vote legally. And they are mostly poor and uneducated. They are destroying our social welfare net and our schools.

In 2010, 23 percent of immigrants and their U.S.-born children (under 18) lived in poverty, compared to 13.5 percent of natives and their children. Immigrants and their children accounted for one-fourth of all persons in poverty. The children of immigrants account for one-third of all children in poverty.

There are 10.4 million students from immigrant households in public schools, accounting for one in five public school students. Of these students, 78 percent speak a language other than English at home. Overall, one in four public school students now speaks a language other than English at home.

In 2010, 29 percent of immigrants and their U.S.-born children (under 18) lacked health insurance, compared to 13.8 percent of natives and their children. New immigrants and their U.S.-born children account for two-thirds of the increase in the uninsured since 2000.