SHOCKER? Immigration bill offers Dems 'permanent majority'

A Politico.com analysis concluding that the immigration-reform bill pending in Congress would produce an electoral bonanza for Democrats fulfills the declaration of President Obama’s Latino community adviser that immigration reform would help ensure a “progressive” governing coalition for the long term.

 


Tuesday, Politico published an extensive piece documenting how the immigration proposal pending in Congress would “transform the nation’s political landscape for a generation or more.” An estimated 11 million new Hispanic voters would cripple Republican prospects in many states the party now wins easily, handing those and other states easily to the Democrats, the report said.

WND was first to report the trend was noted in 2010 by Eliseo Medina, secretary-treasurer of the Service Employees International Union, or SEIU. During the 2008 presidential campaign, Medina served on Obama’s National Latino Advisory Council.

“We reform the immigration laws, it puts 12 million people on the path to citizenship and eventually voters,” stated Medina, speaking at a June 2009 Washington conference for the liberal group America’s Future Now!

Medina said that in the 2008 presidential election, Latinos and immigrants “voted overwhelmingly for progressive candidates. Barack Obama got two out of every three voters that showed up.”

 http://www.wnd.com/2013/04/immigration-bill-offers-dems-permanent-majority/