Immigration Is the Top Issue for Latino Voters in Key States

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Tuesday, July 20, 2010 at 4:38 pm

Latinos are the fastest-growing minority group in the U.S., and their votes could hinge on how the government addresses immigration: A poll released today by the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Educational Fund finds that immigration has overtaken economic issues, education and health care as the top policy issue for Latino voters in four states. In 2006, a poll released by NALEO found education, the economy and jobs, and the war in Iraq were the top concerns for Latino voters.

A majority of the 1,600 Latino voters surveyed in California, Colorado, Florida and Texas said they identify as Democrats, with only 16.5 percent identifying as Republicans. Most said they would be likely to vote against a candidate if they disagreed with the candidate’s stance on immigration.

The Washington Post’s Michael D. Shear reported today that the Obama administration hopes to use immigration to drive a wedge between Republicans and Latino voters:

West Wing strategists argue that the president’s call for legislation that acknowledges the role of immigrants and goes beyond punishing undocumented workers will help cement a permanent political relationship between Democrats and Hispanics — much as civil rights and voting rights legislation did for the party and African Americans in the 1960s.

As a result, although the president is unlikely to press for comprehensive immigration reform this year, he has urged his allies to keep up the pressure on Republican lawmakers.

“Look: The Republicans, if you do the math, cannot be successful as a national party if they continue to alienate Latinos,” said one Democratic strategist familiar with White House thinking on the issue.

Another top Democrat who has advised the administration on immigration added: “If the Republicans continue on the same course they are on, the politics of immigration are potentially devastating to their party.”

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ATTENTION! THIS IS ABOUT ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION–NOT LEGAL IMMIGRATION. GET IT!

No longer is it just Arizona's motivation any more, other states are following Arizona's example with the same policing law, as a facsimile of the federal law. Already a special session of Florida's, Georgia and Utah's legislative, wants to implement a series of laws, that will not only be the same as Arizona's, but will use the great barrier against illegal labor, but will resort to harsh sanctions for business men who have ignored the immigration laws for at least 30 years.

Amnesty that was purportedly to halt these violations in the workplace; no administration has solidly enforced these laws. Now with the inception of E-Verify, that has been increasingly modified, an updated program with strong safeguards, its growing technology can detect stolen documents and sham social security numbers. Republican Senator Jeff Sessions introduced an amendment in 2009 that would have made E-Verify permanent and mandatory for all, but especially for construction companies. Senator Reid did not allow the idea to come up for a vote and the evidence is there that Reid tried to kill E-Verify from the beginning. The 2009 numbers show Nevada is a state with one of the highest percentage of “unauthorized immigrants” in the labor force. Reid's office also downplayed E-Verify as inaccurate, citing recent Social Security Administration numbers.

But the federal government’s (GAO) own contracted accountants; established E-Verify worked 99-percent of the time. Harry Reid was not always an ardent crusader of amnesty for the 18 and up– million illegal aliens in America. Reid once called illegal aliens “free loaders and scam artists.” which he proposed to deal with in his Immigration Stabilization Act in the United States Senate in 1993.” That proposed legislation was presented to the floor of the US Senate with the subsequent press release, in part, issued by Reid's office on August 5, 1993.“ When responding to increased terrorism and abuse of social welfare programs by illegal aliens, Harry Reid announced the first and only comprehensive immigration reform bill in Congress.

Currently, an alien living illegally in the United States often pays no taxes but receives unemployment, welfare, free medical care, and other federal benefits. Same with the “DREAM ACT” like always American taxpayers will become the benefactor, same with Anchor Babies. Previous terrorist acts, including the World Trade Center bombing, have accentuated the need to keep violent criminals out of the country.” Currently, in a round-about-turn Senator John McCain, has changed his tune just as Reid has moved opposite direction as pro- amnesty zealot. Unlike Reid’s proposed plan on immigration reform package, McCain has now expressed his judgment of enforcing the border first?

INCIDENTALLY, I WONDER HOW MANY SENATORS OR REPRESENTATIVES REALIZE THAT THIS WAS NOT THE ORIGINAL BORDER FENCE. THAT TWO FENCES SEPARATED BY A TRACK FOR THE US BORDER PATROL OF A HUNDRED YARDS WAS ORIGINALLY PLANNED? At present I question why President Obama has deployed troops on the border, as they have no power to initiate an arrest or shoot drug smugglers? Sen. Reid should now be carefully watched, as with having a large population of illegal immigrants that will violate the law in voting him back into office. His opponent Sharron Angle can be molded by public opinion, but Reid has too many questionable irons in the fire. Many favors have likely been brought from special interests and open border trash, Faith groups which need him as in top leadership to try and force through another trillion dollar amnesty.

If the illegal immigration invasion was intended to be a federal violation, then why did they make entering the United States a misdemeanor, instead of a felony? IF ARIZONA”S POLICING LAW IS A FEDERAL VIOLATION, WHY HASN'T THE GOVERNMENT SWEPT DOWN ON THE PROMOTERS OF SANCTUARY CITIES? Ask your Representatives in Congress and state assemblies these questions at 202-224-3121. Don’t wait! Bombard your lawmakers with your demands or see this country become overpopulated and in many neighborhoods third world slums, costing US taxpayers billions more in welfare programs.


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Comment posted October 5, 2010 @ 3:31 pm

Elise,

Please keep up the propoganda using four year old polls, the Democrats believe it and are using it to immoliatie themselves in November!! I trust you will keep it up so Americans can re-take the White House in 2012, thanks for he help.


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