LEGAL immigrants vote more than two to one Dem. Since 1990 35 million LEGAL permanent immigrants have entered this country. This is the equivalent of the current population of Canada. If we don’t reduce LEGAL immigration substantially, the Dems will be the permanent majority party within a decade.
Yes, we have to either reduce immigration or use a merit-based system that brings in a higher percentage of skilled, high-income people who aren’t looking for free stuff from democrats.
Yup....so many people focus on illegals. It’s the legal immigration that has strangled the GOP nationwide. Almost 40 million of them who vote 80% democrat.
Exactly. The whole “illegal immigration is bad, legal immigration is good” mantra is perhaps the dumbest and most demographically destructive mindset and policy approach adopted by Republicans since the time of Reagan.
If Republicans had any sense on the issue they would have rejected the 1990 Immigration bill that increased legal immigration even above the levels unleashed by the 1965 bill. If they were actually smart on the matter they would have taken up Harry Reid’s calls in the early and mid 1990s to undo the 1965 bill and reduce legal immigration by two-thirds. They would have passed the un-neutered version of the Smith-Simpson bill in 1996 and dared Clinton to veto it.
There were many opportunities to undo the 1965 bill and significantly reduce legal immigration. It was a bipartisan goal as recently as the 1990s.
Now I’m not so sure it can be done. When voting on immigration reform Amendments earlier this year in the Senate, the only good Amendment that sought to reduce legal immigration got just 38 or 39 votes. That’s it. Maybe now that number is a bit over 40, but still far short of the 60 that would be needed to invoke cloture. Who knows if it would have passed the House because Ryan never put it up for a vote, but there will be no mystery when Pelosi retakes control next year,