Dont anyone tell Marco Rubio John McCain or Jeff Flake that nearly 80 percent of Hindus voted for Obama or who knows what theyll come up with.
I understand the interest of business lobbies in getting cheap unskilled labor through amnesty but why do Republican officeholders want to create up to 20 million more Democratic voters especially if it involves flouting the law? Are the campaign donations from the soulless rich more important than actual voters?
Without citing any evidence the Rubio Republicans simply assert that granting 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens amnesty will make Hispanics warm to the GOP. Yes thats worked like a charm since Reagan signed an amnesty bill in 1986!
True Romney lost the Hispanic vote but so did John McCain the original Rubio. (McCain lost Hispanics by 67 percent compared to 71 percent who voted against Romney.)
President George H.W. Bush created diversity visas massively increased legal immigration and eliminated the English requirement on the naturalization test. In the 1992 election he won 25 percent of the Hispanic vote -- less than what Romney got.
Although Hispanic politicians spokesmen and TV networks benefit from Rubios mass legalization scheme theres no evidence that Hispanic voters care very much about it.
Amnesty never shows up in polls as a top concern of Hispanics. Its a top concern of employers not workers -- which isnt going to do much to help Republicans shed that Party of the Rich image. After Reagan signed an amnesty bill in 1986 unemployment among Hispanics skyrocketed when suddenly there was increased competition for low-skill jobs. Thats precisely why businesses want amnesty not because of their deep concern for the plight of the underclass.
Hows this for an idea: Why dont Republicans remind Hispanic voters that the more low-skilled immigrants who are admitted the lower their wages will be? That at least has the virtue of being untried.
Whatever it is that makes Hispanics love Obama its not amnesty. He double-crossed Hispanics on amnesty; in the words of Univisions Jorge Ramos You promised (amnesty) and a promise is a promise and with all due respect you didnt keep that promise. Obama still won 71 percent of their vote.
Indeed almost alone among demographic groups the Hispanic vote increased for Obama from 2008 to 2012. Protestants Catholics Evangelicals Jews men whites white women -- even single women -- all voted in larger percentages for Romney than they had for McCain.
Only Hispanics and Asians increased their vote for Obama. Coincidentally these have been our two largest immigrant groups over the last several decades. (Its sort of touching that Democrats couldnt get Americans to vote for them so they had to bring in new voters from other countries to start winning elections again. Immigrants really are doing the job Americans just wont do.)
The canard about Hispanics being natural conservatives comes from the same cliche machine that gave us the one about blacks being natural conservatives. At least blacks really are social conservatives -- they just vote Democratic anyway.
As Charles Murray has pointed out Hispanics are less likely to go to church or be employed than non-Hispanics. They are less opposed to gay marriage than everyone else -- 44 percent compared to 50 percent. (By contrast 55 percent of African-Americans oppose gay marriage according to a 2012 Washington Post/ABC poll -- even more according to how they vote.)
Nor unfortunately do Hispanic immigrants become more Republican the longer theyve been here as some Republicans claim without bothering to see if its true.
To the contrary they get more liberal. Cubans used to vote Republican nearly as reliably as Mormons. In 2012 49 percent of Cubans voted for Obama.
Will amnesty win the Cubans back? I dont think so: They already get amnesty under the Cuban Refugee Adjustment Act. Same with Puerto Ricans who are automatic American citizens.
Trying to appeal to Hispanics with amnesty would be like trying to win over baseball fans by shouting Go Yankees! at a Mets game. Except that would at least capture some baseball fans.
Its not clear that amnesty wins any Hispanics apart from the ones who cant vote (because theyre illegal) and their ethnic spokesmen whose power increases as the Hispanic population grows.
So why do Hispanics vote Democratic? Like most legal immigrants since Teddy Kennedys 1965 Immigration Act Hispanic immigrants are poor. The poverty rate of second-generation Hispanics is lower than the first -- but the third generations poverty rate is higher than the second.
Perhaps this has something to do with the fact that Hispanics have the highest illegitimate birthrate in the country. According to the Centers for Disease Control in 2010 for every 1000 unmarried Hispanic women 80.6 had children out of wedlock compared to 65.3 for unmarried black women and 29 for unmarried white women.
If Republicans think we can have mass amnesty for millions of government-dependent immigrants and become a more libertarian country theyre crazy.
This isnt because of a failure to reach out. Republicans cant beat Democrats at the government assistance game. From single mothers to corporate subsidy-takers they want your money and the Democrats promise to give it to them.
Instead of trying to compete with the ethnic lobbies welfare schemes and racialized politics of the Democrats perhaps Republicans should allow our immigration system to admit more immigrants who wont immediately go on government assistance as 60 percent of new immigrants do now.
Putting 12 million to 20 million of them on a path to citizenship wont make them like Republicans; it will make Republicans lose.
Ann Coulter is a columnist and author of Guilty: Liberal Victims and Their Assault On America.
Dont anyone tell Marco Rubio John McCain or Jeff Flake that nearly 80 percent of Hindus voted for Obama or who knows what theyll come up with.
I understand the interest of business lobbies in getting cheap unskilled labor through amnesty but why do Republican officeholders want to create up to 20 million more Democratic voters especially if it involves flouting the law? Are the campaign donations from the soulless rich more important than actual voters?
Without citing any evidence the Rubio Republicans simply assert that granting 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens amnesty will make Hispanics warm to the GOP. Yes thats worked like a charm since Reagan signed an amnesty bill in 1986!
True Romney lost the Hispanic vote but so did John McCain the original Rubio. (McCain lost Hispanics by 67 percent compared to 71 percent who voted against Romney.)
President George H.W. Bush created diversity visas massively increased legal immigration and eliminated the English requirement on the naturalization test. In the 1992 election he won 25 percent of the Hispanic vote -- less than what Romney got.
Although Hispanic politicians spokesmen and TV networks benefit from Rubios mass legalization scheme theres no evidence that Hispanic voters care very much about it.
Amnesty never shows up in polls as a top concern of Hispanics. Its a top concern of employers not workers -- which isnt going to do much to help Republicans shed that Party of the Rich image. After Reagan signed an amnesty bill in 1986 unemployment among Hispanics skyrocketed when suddenly there was increased competition for low-skill jobs. Thats precisely why businesses want amnesty not because of their deep concern for the plight of the underclass.
Hows this for an idea: Why dont Republicans remind Hispanic voters that the more low-skilled immigrants who are admitted the lower their wages will be? That at least has the virtue of being untried.
Whatever it is that makes Hispanics love Obama its not amnesty. He double-crossed Hispanics on amnesty; in the words of Univisions Jorge Ramos You promised (amnesty) and a promise is a promise and with all due respect you didnt keep that promise. Obama still won 71 percent of their vote.
Indeed almost alone among demographic groups the Hispanic vote increased for Obama from 2008 to 2012. Protestants Catholics Evangelicals Jews men whites white women -- even single women -- all voted in larger percentages for Romney than they had for McCain.
Only Hispanics and Asians increased their vote for Obama. Coincidentally these have been our two largest immigrant groups over the last several decades. (Its sort of touching that Democrats couldnt get Americans to vote for them so they had to bring in new voters from other countries to start winning elections again. Immigrants really are doing the job Americans just wont do.)
The canard about Hispanics being natural conservatives comes from the same cliche machine that gave us the one about blacks being natural conservatives. At least blacks really are social conservatives -- they just vote Democratic anyway.
As Charles Murray has pointed out Hispanics are less likely to go to church or be employed than non-Hispanics. They are less opposed to gay marriage than everyone else -- 44 percent compared to 50 percent. (By contrast 55 percent of African-Americans oppose gay marriage according to a 2012 Washington Post/ABC poll -- even more according to how they vote.)
Nor unfortunately do Hispanic immigrants become more Republican the longer theyve been here as some Republicans claim without bothering to see if its true.
To the contrary they get more liberal. Cubans used to vote Republican nearly as reliably as Mormons. In 2012 49 percent of Cubans voted for Obama.
Will amnesty win the Cubans back? I dont think so: They already get amnesty under the Cuban Refugee Adjustment Act. Same with Puerto Ricans who are automatic American citizens.
Trying to appeal to Hispanics with amnesty would be like trying to win over baseball fans by shouting Go Yankees! at a Mets game. Except that would at least capture some baseball fans.
Its not clear that amnesty wins any Hispanics apart from the ones who cant vote (because theyre illegal) and their ethnic spokesmen whose power increases as the Hispanic population grows.
So why do Hispanics vote Democratic? Like most legal immigrants since Teddy Kennedys 1965 Immigration Act Hispanic immigrants are poor. The poverty rate of second-generation Hispanics is lower than the first -- but the third generations poverty rate is higher than the second.
Perhaps this has something to do with the fact that Hispanics have the highest illegitimate birthrate in the country. According to the Centers for Disease Control in 2010 for every 1000 unmarried Hispanic women 80.6 had children out of wedlock compared to 65.3 for unmarried black women and 29 for unmarried white women.
If Republicans think we can have mass amnesty for millions of government-dependent immigrants and become a more libertarian country theyre crazy.
This isnt because of a failure to reach out. Republicans cant beat Democrats at the government assistance game. From single mothers to corporate subsidy-takers they want your money and the Democrats promise to give it to them.
Instead of trying to compete with the ethnic lobbies welfare schemes and racialized politics of the Democrats perhaps Republicans should allow our immigration system to admit more immigrants who wont immediately go on government assistance as 60 percent of new immigrants do now.
Putting 12 million to 20 million of them on a path to citizenship wont make them like Republicans; it will make Republicans lose.
Ann Coulter is a columnist and author of Guilty: Liberal Victims and Their Assault On America.
