Granting citizenship to millions of illegal immigrants would expand the "progressive" electorate and help ensure a "progressive" governing coalition for the long term, declared a recent adviser to President Obama whose union group is among the most frequent visitors to the White House.
"We reform the immigration laws, it puts 12 million people on the path to citizenship and eventually voters," stated Eliseo Medina, international executive vice-president of Service Employees International Union, or SEIU.
(The SEIU is closely linked to the controversial Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN. SEIU President Andrew Stern was the most frequently logged White House visitor, according to an official list released in October.)
Medina said that during the presidential election in November 2008, Latinos and immigrants "voted overwhelmingly for progressive candidates. Barack Obama got two out of every three voters that showed up."
"Can you imagine if we have, even the same ratio, two out of three? Can you imagine 8 million new voters who care about our issues and will be voting? We will be creating a governing coalition for the long term, not just for an election cycle."
Medina was speaking at a June 2009 Washington conference for the liberal America's Future Now!
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9 comments:
More like Obama's way of making himself a legal citizen!
illegal immigrants = undocumented democrat voters
What a shame, that the democrats have to bring in illegal immigrants to vote against the American people. What is so wrong with their policies and message that thew average American won't vote for them?
The current administration is nothing short of a terrorist group. While they havent used guns and bombs {yet} they undermined, manipulated, and skirted around our laws, our Constitution and our Liberties....all in an effort to gain and hold power over the people of this great nation. Those participating in this terrorist plot of destruction should be taken into custody by our military and tried as the terrorist they are.
3:32,
That is the current administration? Not the one that sent us into an unjust war and has cost thousands of lives. Not the one that violated the federal torture act. Not the one that authorized illegal electronic surveillance. Man you all have a lot of balls to come on here and say anything about the current administration.
The Mexicans are smart. Thats why Santa Anna only took 600 Mexicans to the Alamo. Cause he only had 2 pick-up trucks and a stationwagon.
ya who else is going to vote democrat in 3 years ,
kids,illegals,Acorn voters, and dumb people
I know you guys are not good with history, so allow me:
It was President George W Bush who first proposed amnesty.
Bush did it. Sorry about using facts on you. I know that makes you cry.
3;32 & 8:42 Don't justify your blindness with previous ignorance. Lets face it we got a world of hurt coming and you know and I know it! If that were not true we would not be on this web sight at all! We would be concerned with other things not the president. Every day it something new and its never good! Do you really know what a trillion is?? if you don't stop and figure it out. If you can't figure it out google it PLEASE!
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