Posted on 09/22/2014 4:20:14 AM PDT by Kaslin
Could one not conclude, therefore, that most legal immigrants tend to support government assistance and that pandering to illegal aliens of their ethnic group is not a factor?
Some studies, however, show a large disparity between foreign and U.S. born latinos, which, when combined with the low priority given the immigration issue, indicate that this is not a wedge issue. For example from May 2013:
In assessing the support or opposition for such laws, 32.28 percent of U.S.-born Latinos responded that they “favor” or “strongly favor” tougher immigration laws, compared to 9.54 percent of foreign-born Latinos. By comparison, 41.72 percent of U.S.-born Latinos “oppose” or “strongly oppose” such laws, while 71.61 percent of foreign-born Latinos shared the attitude.
This should be the topic of its own thread. Karl Rove is being lead around by the nose.
What’s your point, Hispanics vote democrat, and are liberal on immigration, we already know that.
My observation about Mestizos stems from Latin American racism, not ours. Latin American whites think they are exporting their trash. You don't see them walking across the border. As a result, the mixed race illegals and those with recent legal status, don't fully trust white latinos, particularly if they speak with a Cuban accent. That goes to who should be delivering the message. I don't know yet who to nominate for that task.
In any event, Republicans should not be falling over themselves to offer a path to citizenship for illegals. Their current stance results from intellectual laziness in accepting Democrat propaganda spun other over five decades.
I’m against all immigration, it is the only way to save what little is left of the nation.
Given that immigrants, these days, vote left, and that the Left is destroying this nation, yes, I agree with you. However, that position is not politically viable. Making sure immigrants play by the rules, however, is a winning issue. That goes for the likely twenty millions illegals already here, so resolving that goes a long way to addressing your concerns. Not that even that is going to happen, given our muddle-headed RINOs.
When have immigrants not voted left since mass immigration was first allowed in the 1850s?
Why is ending immigration not viable, why should Americans face a future of a billion people smothering each other?
Your Pew data encouraged me to dig further. I am encouraged that opposing any form of amnesty is a position that the Republicans can take and still win an increased share of the latino vote, since other issues are more important. Advocating an end to all immigration would be political suicide. Do you have data that would indicate otherwise?
When the republicans win the Hispanic vote, then give us a call.
Or the immigrant vote for that matter, be sure and let us know when that happens.
They may win it one day, but you won't like what they do to win it.
Ha! That’s not going to happen, of course. But they may pick up a few points if they pull their heads out of the sand..
That was only because Perot partially split the Left vote. A repeat is unlikely.
That’s certainly what I conclude.
Just before reading your comment, I was reading through an international poll done by CNBC.
Question:
“Who has the primary responsibility for health care - Government? - Employers? - Individuals?”
72% of the people from nations with “emerging economies” said “Government.”
On bread and butter issues, immigrants will vote Left. I suspect, however, that if asked whether immigrants should abide by immigration rules, at least 72% of them will say yes. While you were reading that, I noticed that a poll of Mexicans revealed that 27% think it is okay to break U.S. immigration laws.
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