The American left is largely responsible for the issue for two reasons:
1) An amnesty plan, or some sort of accelerated path to citizenship, would result in more left wing voters due to the demographics of most illegals.
2) Being able to point to the opposing group and say "you're racist for wanting to kick out brown people" is great red meat for the base. It's also completely unsubstantiated, but hey.
This is not to say that the right does not demagogue the jobs and crime issues, but they're also the ones in favor of enforcing existing laws and are yet still looking to get more immigrants naturalized and given citizenship.
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Re: On another note, I don't get it
Date: 1/5/10 12:48 (UTC)1) An amnesty plan, or some sort of accelerated path to citizenship, would result in more left wing voters due to the demographics of most illegals.
2) Being able to point to the opposing group and say "you're racist for wanting to kick out brown people" is great red meat for the base. It's also completely unsubstantiated, but hey.
This is not to say that the right does not demagogue the jobs and crime issues, but they're also the ones in favor of enforcing existing laws and are yet still looking to get more immigrants naturalized and given citizenship.