{"id":3852,"date":"2010-12-14T14:35:01","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T19:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=3852"},"modified":"2010-12-14T14:38:47","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T19:38:47","slug":"3852","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/14\/3852\/","title":{"rendered":"If you want open borders tomorrow &#8211; you need to support amensty-again today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>NRO The Corner<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>You Say That Like It\u2019s a Good Thing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>December 14, 2010 <\/p>\n<p>By Mark Krikorian    <\/p>\n<p>As you can imagine, I don\u2019t ordinarily read The Nation, but a friend sent along this revealing excerpt from the current issue:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As CCC\u2019s Bhargava argued, widespread legalization could mark \u201ca structural change in the politics of the country that will make the country more generous to immigrants in the future. So, if you want better immigration policy ten years from now, you\u2019d better support and do what\u2019s necessary to get the current undocumented population legal.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/156809\/immigrant-activists-regroup?page=full\">(HERE<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStructural change in the politics of the country\u201d means \u201cmore Democratic voters.\u201d There\u2019s nothing new here: As I point out in my Encounter Broadside, Barney Frank and the SEIU\u2019s Eliseo Medina have publicly said the same thing. Ruy Teixeira wrote earlier this year in a piece for the Center for American Progress:<\/p>\n<p>These data suggest that there is really only one way for the GOP to effectively compete for minority voters, and it\u2019s a way that Republicans have rejected so far. The party must, quite simply, become less conservative. They will have to jettison their bitter hostility to active government, spending on social services, and immigration reform and develop their own approach in these areas that minorities might find appealing. [emphasis added]<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, University of Maryland political scientist James Gimpel has found that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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. . . . Future levels of immigration are likely to be a key determinant of Republicans\u2019 political prospects moving forward. [emphasis added]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In fact, everyone seems to understand that continued mass immigration means the end of the GOP as a conservative party \u2014 except the people actually in charge of the GOP.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/255273\/you-say-its-good-thing-mark-krikorian\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NRO The Corner You Say That Like It\u2019s a Good Thing December 14, 2010 By Mark Krikorian As you can imagine, I don\u2019t ordinarily read The Nation, but a friend sent along this revealing excerpt from the current issue: As CCC\u2019s Bhargava argued, widespread legalization could mark \u201ca structural change in the politics of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}