No surprise here. The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) released a report today that examines voting trends in counties with varying levels of immigrant populations and concludes the following:
This Backgrounder examines the political implications of large-scale immigration. Between 1980 and 2008, 25.2 million people were granted permanent residency (green cards) by the United States. A comparison of voting patterns in presidential elections across counties over the last three decades shows that large-scale immigration has caused a steady drop in presidential Republican vote shares throughout the country. Once politically marginal counties are now safely Democratic due to the propensity of immigrants, especially Latinos, to identify and vote Democratic. The partisan impact of immigration is relatively uniform throughout the country, even though local Republican parties have taken different positions on illegal immigration. Although high immigration may work against Democratic policy goals, such as raising wages for the poor and protecting the environment, it does improve Democratic electoral prospects. In contrast, immigration may help Republican business interests hold down wages, but it also undermines the party’s political fortunes. Future levels of immigration are likely to be a key determinant of Republicans’ political prospects moving forward.
I see this as just more confirmation of a theory I’ve promoted on these pages about why the supposed do-gooder organizations resettling refugees seem so uncaring and cavaleer about the quality of life they provide new refugees (something we have reported ad nauseum at RRW). The refugees and immigrants are just pawns in a ruthless political power game by the Far Left to make the newcomers dependent on government and then vote Democratic.
LOL! In fact, if every immigrant arriving in the US said they would vote Republican from now on, it would be the Democrats screaming bloody murder to stop the multiculturalism is beautiful mantra!
Of course, many Conservatives and Tea Party activists are mystified why supposed Republican leaders can be advocates of Open Borders—seems like a death wish to me!