Posted on 01/24/2002 12:11:58 PM PST by ThJ1800
Will new immigrant voters be swinging 2002 state elections?
By Carlos Guerra, San Antonio Express-News, 01/24/2002
As Texas' 2002 election cycle kicks into gear, campaign professionals in both parties are nervously eyeing a mysterious voter group...Before 1990, Mexicans were among the foreigners least likely to seek naturalization, but during the '90s this began to change. Not long after large numbers started winning their amnesty, they became eligible to begin the naturalization process.
Group plans Spanish voter guide
By Associated Press, El Paso Times, 01/24/02
SAN ANTONIO -- For the first time, the League of Women Voters of Texas plans to issue a guide to statewide candidates written entirely in Spanish for the March 12 primaries. The league, which estimates more than 1 million Texas voters use the guides every election, has printed portions of its traditional question-and-answer guide in Spanish for several years.
Number living illegally in U.S. doubles in '90s
Louie Gilot, El Paso Times, 01/24/02
The number of undocumented immigrants in the United States more than doubled during the 1990s, new Census Bureau estimates show. Census estimates show that the number of undocumented immigrants in the United States rose nearly 5 million during the decade, to 8.7 million in 2000. Of that total, almost 3.9 million, or 44 percent, were from Mexico.
When you have people who have nothing they will vote for the ones they see giving them something. Just human nature. Unless the republicans plan on out democrating the democrats they won't get the majority of the hispanic vote. If they do out democrat the democrats it don't matter does it? We lose either way.
I have been saying for sometime now the republicans are committing political suicide by not controlling our borders. It's only a matter of time. Their thought process only extends to the next election. I don't believe they can see far enough ahead to see what they are doing long term.
WarHawk42
For starters (they already have started) they will elect Hispanics. They in turn of course will cater to their constituents, there hispanic constituents. Law of the jungle at work.
And who will pay the brunt of the taxes to support infrastructure and social programs if hispanics don't become better
educated and start earning higher incomes?
The answer above covers that. That will be no different than it is today. We support them now.
WarHawk42
We have been sitting here laughing at most of these post.
Uhmmm, lets see, what can we do to "convert these millions"??? Cookies? Cheaper housing. Free electricity? Reduce the prices in admission tickets to Disneyland?
The administration could win over more groups if it would give speaches in Chinese!
The Republicans could threaten enforce immigration laws, that might win them over or convert them! This is no longer anything to get upset about. Its absolutley laughable.
Just think, each year, another wave of the next million will be arriving, so were going to have to get real creative and think of better deals to offer each year. Like maybe department store discount coupons for every vote.
Like maybe department store discounts for every vote.
WarHawk42
Of course it wont. LOL! Sometimes I think the Republican party has been heavily infiltrated by Democrates.
I keep saying the only difference between a republican and a democrat is the federal programs they want. They both think federal programs are OK as long as it is one they want.
Oh, and as long as it "their" guy proposing the program.:)
WarHawk42
WarHawk42
The two beltway parties are almost indistinguishable. And some of these well intentioned folks really don't have a clue what the hell is going on. This is no stinking game. Its a GD titanic invasion of hundreds of thousands every few months.
This little vote game of "win them over" or convert them, is pretty damn humorous.
Oh yeah it is. If this "convert them", or "win them over" strategy prevails between these two beltway parties, this nation is done.
Only a matter of time.
There seems to be an attempt to drive people out of the Republican party; it's working. Sometimes it seems that the "Conservatives" would rather be in an ideologically pure minority than to have to govern.
Thanks for the correction, of course you're right.
The main "effect" of Hispanic immigration isn't in partisan politics - but in the balkanization of the U.S.!
Name any other ethnic/religious/linguistic group getting remotely so much government service - particularly "bilingual education" - in some language other than English in the U.S.! "Bilingual education" is almost never about any other language but Spanish.
And let's be honest about the reality of Kalifornia - where the vast majority of Hispanic immigrants go. It is an incipient Mexican-culture nation - as "reconquista" proponents favor. That has never happened with Swedes in Minnesota or Italians in New York. High continuing Hispanic immigration will eventually result in Kalifornia seceding - with great benefits to conservatives in the other 49 states, as it will forever end the Democreeps' having any viability as a "national" party.
IMMIGRATION resource library - with public-health facts of immigration!
The republican party has almost given up on even pretending to be conservative.
And some of these well intentioned folks really don't have a clue what the hell is going on.
In most cases I would question how well intentioned they are. Most of what they do is designed for one thing and one thing only. To get them re-elected. It has nothing to do with good intentions.
This little vote game of "win them over" or convert them, is pretty damn humorous.
It would be humorous if it wasn't tearing this country apart.
WarHawk42
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