The recent Homeland Security funding fight resurfaced Republicans’ continued aversion to regularization for illegal immigrants. Presumably, among their calculations is the notion that allowing some of the estimated eleven million individuals that are living in the US illegally to gain voting rights would result in electoral gains for Democrats. Worse still, the impact would be hardest felt in key battleground states.
Assuming that the president’s opponents are right, and that regularization is a pathway to citizenship, does this necessarily lead to losses for the GOP at the polls? CONT.
Tony Lucadamo & David Leblang (UVA), The Hill