They’re poor, they would absolutely be part of the rat social welfare gibmedat coalition, GOP would have no chance, they’d be race baited too.
And they have muzzies. We’d have Islamist congressman. No thank you. Absorbing a highly populated, poor country with a muzzie problem would be the hight of insanity. Having a huge percentage of House seats taken up by these “new” Americans, seriously?
Manny Pacquiao, who is often praised around here for being “pro-life”, endorsed Harry Reid and Jerry Brown.
The Muslims there would almost certainly form their own independent nation if offered that option. We were a “poor” nation in 1776, don’t kid yourself. There would probably be some kind of assimilation or probation period where their congressmen would just be non-voting observers like the ones now from PR, Guam and DC. Having bases that close to Communist China, Taiwan, Australia and Korea would help us immensely.
Huh? Are you confusing the Philippines with Muslim-infested Indonesia or something? The Philippines are OVERWHELMINGLY Roman Catholic (more so than any existing American state) and the Muslims population is a small minority in single digits (around 5% of the population according to the last census). Methodists are 6% of the population of Illinois. So do we have a large influx of "Methodist Congressmen" in America thanks to Illinois having 18 seats in Congress, and a big "Methodist influence" in our state? Hardly.
My observation with Filipino-Americans, anyway, is all the ones I've met are pretty strongly pro-life Catholics and heavily lean Republican. Of course, the population living in the U.S. can't be identical to their equivalents on the island, but I wouldn't be surprised if Filipino-Americans were the most GOP friendly voting bloc of all Asian-Americans.
That being said, I'd absolutely oppose "statehood for the Philippines" for other reasons. For starters, they ceased being a US territory and severed ties with us decades ago. Secondly, as you noted, we'd have to absorb a huge, low income island population and that would be a terrible drain on the American economy. And the most obvious reason I'm against it -- I think its sheer insanity to some faraway island nation that has little in common the culture of the US mainland to become a state. It was a terrible idea when they did it for Hawaii, and it would be terrible for the Philippines.