Do you support amnesty? Do you support increasing the number of foreign guest workers at a time when we have the lowest labor participation rates in 38 years? You have to do this research for yourself so you can defend your candidate of choice. I know where Trump stands on the immigration issue.
Also, immigration is one issue among many. So, for example, if Rubio is strong on pro-life and religious liberty, and another candidate is weak on those issues but stronger on immigration--or Rubio is very strong and knowledgeable on foreign policy, and another candidate just likes to blow off gas and say that things will be "great"--well, I weigh all these factors.
Immigration is the defining issue of our time. It affects every major challenge facing this country. Mass legal immigration will mark the end of conservatism in this country. Immigrants vote more than two to one Dem.
How Mass (Legal) Immigration Dooms a Conservative Republican Party
In 1970 one in 21 was foreign born; today, it is less tha one in 8, the highest in 105 years, and within a decade in will be one in 7, the highest in our history. In 1970 we had 9.7 million foreign born; today, there are 42.4 million. We have just had the two largest decades of legal immigration in our history. Over 35 million legal permanent immigrants have entered since 1990. 87% of them are minorities as defined by the USG
Immigrants are taking American jobs and depressing wages.
Immigrants use welfare to a greater extent than the native born.
