It is 30% and many of them can't vote. The point is that you can use the immigration issue against the Dems if you link it to jobs like Dave Brat did. We have just had the two highest decades of legal immigration in our history with 27 million legal, permanent immigrants entering during the period 1990 to 2010. They are taking American jobs and depressing wages at a time when 20 million Americans are unemployed or underemployed. We have the lowest labor participation rate since 1978.
Jeff Sessions has provided the strategy, Becoming the Party of Work How the GOP can help struggling Americans, and itself, but the GOPe has failed to use it because it would rather cater to its corporate paymasters. Both parties have abandoned the American worker. The example of the emergence of UKIP in the UK should be followed by the GOP.
The bottom line is we are going to get amnesty (they won't call it amnesty) with a Republican senate and the establishment does not care. I have no illusions of Gillespie's intention. I have to assume he will support it. The powers that want it are too great. Unfortunately, the voters have little say any more about policy. There was an article on that just a month or so ago. The researchers studied issues over a number of years and concluded average voters had little to no sway on policy. I'm sure neither of us are surprised about the conclusion.
Legal immigration will make the Dems the permanent majority party, amnesty will just hasten the process. An amnesty will cost $6.3 trillion according to a Heritage study. The demographics of this country are rapidly changing fueled by immigration and minority birthrates. 87% of the 1.1 million legal permanent immigrants who enter annually are minorities as defined by the USG. By 2019 half of the children 18 and under will be minorities. Immigrants and minorities vote two to one Democrat. By 2043 half of the country will be minorities.
Average voters can make a difference if they mobilize around an issue. The Tea Party is a good example of a grassroots movement that did make a difference. It is the main reason why the Dems demonized it because they are afraid of real grassroots populism rather than the manufactured, astro-turfed movements they arrange.
Just as the UK reached a political consensus across all party lines that immigration needed to be reduced that resulted from the BNP's slogan "British jobs for British workers," we need to do the same thing here, American jobs for American workers. The Dems and the RINOs are pushing for more skilled labor to displace Americans graduating from college with huge student loans. It used to be that we needed immigrants to do jobs Americans won't do, now we need them to do jobs Americans can't do.
All we need is an articulate politician like Nigel Farage to connect the facts with jobs and you will see an entire movement arise. Obama's executive amnesty will be the spark to set off the conflagration if someone capitalizes on the opportunity. Amnesty is forever.