What's going to happen with or without immigration? Demographic changes? Use of welfare? The Dems becoming the permanent majority party? The end of conservatism?
Do you have a problem with race?
No, do you? The political power base of the GOP is non-Hispanic whites, which voted 59-39 for Romney. Blacks voted 93$ for Obama along with 73% of Asians and 71% of Hispanics. We have entered the era of tribal politics and anyone discounting the importance of race in the electoral process is delusional. Dem strategists like Ruy Teixeira have said that changing the demography of the country is an electoral strategy that will transform America and make the Dems the permanent majority party. The 1965 Immigration Act changed where we get most of our immigrants from. The idea is to make America look like the rest of the world.
The 1965 Immigration Act: Anatomy of a Disaster
We are importing hundreds of thousands of future Dem voters every year. Why are the Dems so in favor of amnesty and increased immigration? Do you thing if immigrants were voting more than two to one Rep, they would sit idly by and let it happen. Phyllis Schlafly wrote a study two years ago, How Mass (Legal) Immigration Dooms a Conservative Republican Party You should read it.
I get the illegal immigration problem and I am dead set against Amnesty. I do believe there will be little difference how each of the Republicans govern. Trump and Cruz just got religion on this to win an election. I hope I am wrong but I don’t think so.
How do you define amnesty? My definition is any legislation that allows the lawbreakers to stay and work here is amnesty. Citizenship is just the cherry on top.
The political class has lied about what it would do to stop illegal immigration. I trust Trump more than Cruz to actually do something about it. FYI: Securing the border only solves part of the problem. 40% of the illegals came here legally and overstayed their visas.
Immigration, legal and illegal, has had and will continue to have a major and far-reaching impact across a broad spectrum of existential challenges that confront this nation, e.g., national security, the economy/global competitiveness, jobs, health care, taxes, energy independence, education, entitlement reform, law enforcement, social welfare programs, physical infrastructure, the environment, civil liberties, and a continued sense of national identity/shared sense of endeavor. Immigration is the defining issue of our time with enormous implications for the future of this nation and the preservation of our patrimony. Yet, seldom will you hear immigration mentioned by our political and intellectual elites in connection with solutions to these challenges
You are way better informed than I am on this man. Look I agree about Trump taking this much more serious than Cruz. He is a Politician that really will do anything to get elected or even re-elected. I am not a Trump fan, so it is hard to know what to do really. I don’t trust any of them really. We have the same view of Amnesty. Enforcing our laws and making it virtually impossible to work here illegally will help, but many will still not go home and continue to have babies.