Reply #78: transform america via relaxed citizenship rules, increased immigration quotas, and an amnesty [View All]

[azbarq]

I think americans have a right to hate illegals.
Most people do not want to see their neighborhoods transformed into something looking like another country, with signs in a different language etc.

Don't the wishes of the majority matter in a democracy?
And the dramatic changes wrought by mass immigration has caused a backlash and a rising conservative sentiment among americans all over.
The more they see their old neighborhoods changing from immigration, the more conservative most white americans get. See Dr Putnam's BOWLING ALONE research.

Plus, immigrants have driven down wages and put americans out of work.
THat's bad, right?

However, the huge numbers of immigrants could be put to a good purpose. Look at california, where the hispanic vote has apparently now made that state a solid blue state.

An amnesty could turn non-voting hispanics into voters, primarily democratic voters, and in combination with relaxed citizenship rules in combination with relaxed legal immigration rules, could turn many small states and texas into blue states.

This is one thing that infuriates me about the democratic party--they do not seem to realize that the importation of the immigrants without the immigrants being able to vote only makes the white majority more conservative.

An amnesty in combination with relaxed citizenship rules in combination with relaxed legal immigration rules, could turn many small states and texas into blue states. Why don't democrats talk about this?

And even more importantly, a relatively small number of new hispanic immigrant-voters could transform the senate into a solidly democratic body. The senate is made up primarily of small states, most of them in the west. States like montana, WY, ND, SD, UT, ID, etc, have such a low population that an amnesty and relaxed immigration and citizenship rules could quickly turn those states from solid red to solid blue. Because the population of those states is so low, my proposed changes above could mean that the population of those small states could quickly shift to minority white and majority hispanic, voting hispanics.

This would mean a blue nation! Don't democrats want this?


The real problem is that america is turning more conservative because of importation of non-voting immigrants. You don't seem to realize this. Either kick them out or get more of them and let them all vote. One or the other. Leaving the situation like it is....that is bad.


Open the borders to latin americans. And let them vote.
But let americans go to mexico, too. Maybe we could get cheap healthcare there. The way things are looking, we are sure not going to get it here. This obamacare is shaping up to be a boon for the insurers and healthcare companies and a burden to working class americans.

If we had a truly blue nation, we would not get triangulators like Clinton and Obama, but instead real leftists like Feingold.