Posted on 04/18/2014 9:30:53 AM PDT by Pelham
Republicans are famously divided on immigration reform, but Democrats pretty much unanimously support it. There's a reason for that.
In stark, partisan political terms, continuing the high level of immigration of recent decades, and certainly increasing immigration as envisioned by many reformers, will result in more Democrats winning more elections in coming years.
"The enormous flow of legal immigrants into the country — 29.5 million from 1980 to 2012 — has remade and continues to remake the nation's electorate in favor of the Democratic Party," concludes a new report from the Center for Immigration Studies, which opposes comprehensive reform proposals like the Senate "Gang of Eight" bill. "As the immigrant population has grown, Republican electoral prospects have dimmed, even after controlling for alternative explanations of GOP performance."
In the report, author James Gimpel, a University of Maryland professor, looks at the immigrants who have come to the United States in recent decades and those likely to come in the future. Through a lot of complicated statistical analysis and close reading of previous studies, he comes to the same conclusion as anyone who has looked through exit polls in the last 30 years: Immigrants tend to vote Democratic.
A 2012 study of 2,900 foreign-born, naturalized immigrants cited in the report showed that about 62 percent identified themselves as Democrats, while 25 percent identified as Republicans, and 13 percent identified as independents. At this moment, according to the report, there are an estimated 8.7 million immigrants in the U.S. who are eligible for naturalization. Not all will become voting citizens, but somewhere between 50 percent and 60 percent will. And it's a sure bet that a majority will identify themselves as Democrats.
Gimpel cites several reasons why future immigration will likely mean more Democrats. The first is that "immigrants, particularly Hispanics and
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I will file this under “NS” for “no sh....”
That’s okay with the GOPe, just as long as they continue to get to make sweetheart deals for themselves and their buddies.
what will be fun to watch is all the libtards getting a nice big fat plate of consequences as the newly minted citizens overrun drs offices, and parks, and zoos and roads and camping areas and water ways.....
Amnesty Now!
Because America needs to look more like Mexico...Harry Reid doesn’t like the current American populace, and would like a more easily bullied group
Egg-zakly. We needed a study?
Its slowly sinking in, apparently.
Study finds more immigrants equals more Democrats,rape,murder,taxes,job loss..................
That cartoon would be more accurate with the names of almost every single Republican of the last 50 years on it. Only a tiny number of Republicans have been sane on immigration. As this article under discussion explains, LEGAL immigration from the third world is destroying America as much as illegal immigration.
We still have fools around here saying that massive immigration from non-Western countries is okay as long as it’s legal. I hope they read this article thoroughly.
Loook up in the air! its Captain Obvious!!!!
A group of law breakers migrate to the party of law breaking and FREE STUFF. duh!
Gimpel cites several reasons why future immigration will likely mean more Democrats. The first is that “immigrants, particularly Hispanics and Asians, have policy preferences when it comes to the size and scope of government that are more closely aligned with progressives than with conservatives.” Those preferences have expressed themselves in a two-to-one party identification advantage for Democrats in those groups.
Another reason is that the arrival of immigrants, whose ranks include substantial numbers of the poor and unskilled, increases income inequality in the areas they choose to live. “It is from areas of higher income inequality,” writes Gimpel, “that we find the most support for a robust government with an expansive regulatory and redistributive role in the economy, among all citizens, not just immigrants.” That will likely mean more electoral success for Democrats.
Gimpel found that the partisan impact of immigration “is relatively uniform throughout the country — from California to Texas to Florida.” If immigrants arrive in large numbers, areas that are already Democratic become more so, while areas that are Republican become more Democratic. That applies to Texas and other red-state strongholds as much as anywhere else.
Nobody wants to look "racist" or "xenophobic." It's time to stop worrying about being called names and speak the truth about the destruction of our country.
A stunning report from Captain Obvious. The Democrat Party has long understood that in order to retain power, they had to import their voters. The lies and ponzi schemes will only work for so long.
Motor Voter laws, championing illegal immigration, undermining border security laws and policy, attacks on voter fraud measures are all essential to the survival of the Democrat Party and a very real threat to the viability of conservative government.
Not surprisingly, the Republican reaction to all of this has been to help the Democrat scheme succeed.
I'm surprised the amnesty boosters within the GOPe manage to dress themselves, let alone find their way to Capitol Hill each day, as stupid as they apparently are.
Pelosi’s public statment that she’d be willing to remain in the minority in 2016 if it meant passing amnesty tells anyone all they need to know about immigration “reform”.
It’s not immigration that’s the problem - it’s switching our immigration policies to favor third world nations that’s the problem. We no longer choose immigrants who will contribute to the economy, who we know will not be a burden, who we know have jobs waiting for them.
Nice article stating the obvious,but not one mention of how this came about,The Lion of the Senate and Democrats in the 1965 Immigration Reform Act,Google it ,read the floor speeches and see the arguments the Republicans made against it,then read the responses from the Democrats,it will all sound familiar.
The main point though is what that bill did,notice in Byron Yorks article there was not a mention of European immigrants? That was because of what the bill did,it changed the quotas of where the majority of immigrants would come from,the majority would come from South America,Africa and Asia.
Knowing that is it any surprise we are where we are at?
Not Hardly,Old Teddy did his job well,50 years later White Europeans are about to be in the minority,thanks to the DEMOCRAT PARTY.
Read the arguments against this change and see who was right about the effects it would have,the Republicans were right,people who have no idea about our culture,language and liberty will outnumber us all at the voting booth,its over folks
Nice article stating the obvious,but not one mention of how this came about,The Lion of the Senate and Democrats in the 1965 Immigration Reform Act,Google it ,read the floor speeches and see the arguments the Republicans made against it,then read the responses from the Democrats,it will all sound familiar.
The main point though is what that bill did,notice in Byron Yorks article there was not a mention of European immigrants? That was because of what the bill did,it changed the quotas of where the majority of immigrants would come from,the majority would come from South America,Africa and Asia.
Knowing that is it any surprise we are where we are at?
Not Hardly,Old Teddy did his job well,50 years later White Europeans are about to be in the minority,thanks to the DEOMOCRAT PARTY.
Read the arguments against this change and see who was right about the effects it would have,the Republicans were right,people who have no idea about our culture,language and liberty will outnumber us all at the voting booth,its over folks
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