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There is a political method to the madness in the Democrats who are elected from Southern California and the Bay Area. This Open Borders, sanctuary cities and abolish ICE crowd recognize that House of Representative numbers and Electoral College representation are based on total population, legal and illegal.The greater the population in Southern California and Bay Area, the greater political clout Democrats from these areas wield in state legislature and in national politics.California illustrates the problem. While the Census Bureau stopped asking about citizenship on the main Census form in 1960, it has continued to ask about it in other surveys. One of these, the American Community Survey, shows that the non-citizen proportion of the population in the states varies widely, ranging from 14 percent in California to less than 1 percent in West Virginia. Based on these estimates, California, the first sanctuary state, has five or six more members of the House than it would if House seats were based on citizen population alone.No wonder California fears and opposes the citizenship question. What could happen if Americans in other states start asking why California should get more members of Congress and electoral votes by defying the nation’s immigration laws?Immigration has a profound effect on politics at the intra-state level as well. As between states, non-citizen immigrant populations are unevenly dispersed within states. They generally concentrate in urban areas, where they distort the apportionment of state legislatures and congressional seats even more than nationally. Illegal Immigration Gives Cities Political Power | National ReviewIn Canada, illegal immigrants are (with exception) prevented from working, attending public schools, accessing the national healthcare system or receiving other social services. The number of illegal immigrants who attempt to enter and stay in Canada are low. Canada Has Its Own Ways of Keeping Out Unwanted ImmigrantsWhen a country or state takes that opposite approach, it obviously encourages more illegal immigration.The large majority of Americans are in favor of immigration reform more along the lines of what is coming from the current White House.According to a Harvard University-Harris Poll, a majority of Americans actually agree with not only one but all of Trump’s immigration proposals.A stunning 65 percent of Americans support a DACA deal that ends chain migration, eliminates the random visa lottery and secures the border with a wall. Only 35 percent of Americans did not agree.Nearly 70 percent of Americans oppose the visa lottery which allows immigrants to be picked at random for entry into the country.In fact, nearly 80 percent of Americans believe that immigration should be based on merit and skills, not just family ties.Even more interesting, the poll shows that 60 percent of Americans believe that even if dreamers are allowed to stay, they should not be given preference to bring relatives to the United States.When faced with a choice, nearly 80 percent want secure borders rather than open borders.Specifically, 61 percent think that current border security is inadequate, and more than half of Americans — 54 percent — support a physical barrier along the southern U.S. border. This is particularly bad news for democrats such as Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) who recently reneged on funding the border wall. New polling from The Hill.

What is the immigration protestors’ ultimate goal?Their ultimate goal is to elect more Democrats to the House and Senate in the 2018 midterm elections.Progressives and more than a few Democrats feel that taking an open borders stance and getting rid of ICE is a good political strategy. That reflects how far left the Democratic Party is getting pushed in recent election cycles. It’s heralded by the election of a political novice for the congressional seat in New York held by the person many predicted would succeed Nancy Pelosi as the next Democratic Party House leader, Joe Crowley.Crowley was not even close to being a conservative Democrat. He’d won 10 terms to the House. He was beaten by 28 year old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who advocates getting rid of ICE. Progressives are energized. Although they are very vocal, they aren’t getting the traction they need to carry the day.Young Americans Are Actually Not Becoming More LiberalMillennials are more conservative than Boomers or Gen Xers were at their age, study findsWhy Democrats Should Be Losing Sleep Over Generation ZBut two recent polls should give centrist Democrats severe heartburn. Mark Penn was Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager in 2008 and Harvard is…well Harvard, a bastion of liberal education in American.Prominent Democratic pollster Mark Penn said on Thursday that a vast majority of Americans don’t really support so-called sanctuary cities that shield immigrants in the country illegally from deportation.Penn, who served as chief strategist for Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign, revealed that 84 percent of Americans favor turning undocumented immigrants over to federal agents.“I asked them, ‘Do you think notifying ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] would in fact increase crime because it would inhibit people from reporting crimes or does it decrease crimes because it takes criminals off the street,’ and they overwhelming said ‘decrease,’ ” Penn told Hill.TV's “Rising.”Penn said the response was strikingly “out of sync” with what the public might think about sanctuary cities. The broad term refers to cities that don’t fully cooperate with federal authorities when it comes to turning over people in the country illegally to immigration enforcement.“When someone’s arrested, they expect someone will notify federal immigration authorities just as they would expect someone who violates state tax law will find out that they notified the IRS,” the pollster said.Ex-Clinton aide: 84 percent of Americans support turning undocumented immigrants over to authoritiesA new left-leaning poll proves the point President Donald Trump made at his State of the Union address: “Americans are dreamers, too.”According to a Harvard University-Harris Poll, a majority of Americans actually agree with not only one but all of Trump’s immigration proposals.A stunning 65 percent of Americans support a DACA deal that ends chain migration, eliminates the random visa lottery and secures the border with a wall. Only 35 percent of Americans did not agree.Nearly 70 percent of Americans oppose the visa lottery which allows immigrants to be picked at random for entry into the country.In fact, nearly 80 percent of Americans believe that immigration should be based on merit and skills, not just family ties.Even more interesting, the poll shows that 60 percent of Americans believe that even if dreamers are allowed to stay, they should not be given preference to bring relatives to the United States.When faced with a choice, nearly 80 percent want secure borders rather than open borders.Specifically, 61 percent think that current border security is inadequate, and more than half of Americans — 54 percent — support a physical barrier along the southern U.S. border. This is particularly bad news for democrats such as Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) who recently reneged on funding the border wall.New polling proves President Trump is right — 'Americans are #Dreamers, too'

When Bush 43 with Senator Ted Kennedy tried to pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill in 2007, there was bipartisan support as well as bipartisan opposition.That bill was torpedoed by votes from Senators Obama and Durbin against amendments that would have moved the bills along. Public sector union bosses were against it because of legitimate concerns that it would result in lower wages for their membership and the Democrats like having the issue of illegal immigration for political purposes.The fight for immigration reform was one of Kennedy’s last great battles on the Senate floor. Obama did, however, vote at least five times against Kennedy on amendments, one of which passed and has been partly blamed by the bill’s backers, including Kyl, for the overall bill’s demise.Six years removed from the debate, it’s difficult to get a firm sense of exactly how Obama’s role at the time was perceived, but in the case of the immigration debate, a meticulously thorough insider account exists in the form of the documentary “Last Best Chance,” by filmmakers Shari Robertson and Michael Carmerini, who had extremely intimate and unique access to all of the major players both on and off the Hill.Obama rarely appears in the film, but in one key scene, a group of business community lobbyists reacts to the breaking news that Obama will support a poison pill amendment from former Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.). One of them sums up the reaction: “‘Presidential candidate kills immigration bill’ — there’s a headline for you,” says Craig Silvertooth, in response to the news that Obama will vote for an amendment that the GOP and its business allies say destroys the compromise. Silvertooth was part of the Essential Worker Immigration Coalition, an offshoot of the Chamber of Commerce.Obama's Role In 2007 Immigration Battle DebatedThen with incredible hypocrisy, Candidate Obama moved into his campaign announcing that as President, he would pass and sign a comprehension immigration bill his first year in office. Not only did he not do that, neither he or any other elected Democrat attempted to even place a bill on the floor despite having an overwhelming majority in the House and a filibuster proof Senate. The campaign promise that’s still haunting ObamaObama and the Democrats only placed bills on the floor after they lost both the House and had only a small majority in the Senate. Nice eh?Democrats don’t attempt pass an immigration bill except when they know that their version has no chance of making it into law. It’s part of their attempt to continue their grievance politics among blacks and Hispanics.But now the Democratic Party seems to have overplayed their hand and a large majority of Americans want a more Republican kind of immigration reform.A new left-leaning poll proves the point President Donald Trump made at his State of the Union address: “Americans are dreamers, too.” According to a Harvard University-Harris Poll, a majority of Americans actually agree with not only one but all of Trump’s immigration proposals.A stunning 65 percent of Americans support a DACA deal that ends chain migration, eliminates the random visa lottery and secures the border with a wall. Only 35 percent of Americans did not agree.Nearly 70 percent of Americans oppose the visa lottery which allows immigrants to be picked at random for entry into the country. In fact, nearly 80 percent of Americans believe that immigration should be based on merit and skills, not just family ties.Even more interesting, the poll shows that 60 percent of Americans believe that even if dreamers are allowed to stay, they should not be given preference to bring relatives to the United States.When faced with a choice, nearly 80 percent want secure borders rather than open borders. Specifically, 61 percent think that current border security is inadequate, and more than half of Americans — 54 percent — support a physical barrier along the southern U.S. border. This is particularly bad news for democrats such as Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) who recently reneged on funding the border wall.The shocking poll underscores the progress Trump has made in his push for immigration reform. When he launched his bid for president, a Pew Research Center pollshowed that only 46 percent of Americans supported a border wall. In 2016, The Washington Post even poked fun at Trump for actually making the border wall less popular at just 36 percent but no that is no longer the case, either. The rise in poll numbers shows Trump’s persistence on the issue finally pays dividends.New polling proves President Trump is right