No Amnesty– Now or in Two Years

Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, cautions Democrats that it would be politically unwise to ignore the importance of illegal immigration to voters, and adopt any legislation that provides amnesty to illegals.

It’s not just that immigration control landed [Hazleton, PA Mayor Lou] Barletta on national and international news; his stance is wildly popular in his city, where Democrats outnumber Republicans two to one. In Hazleton’s 2007 elections, not only did he defeat a Republican primary challenger, but so many Democrats wrote his name in that he also won their primary and was reelected with close to 90 percent of the vote.

No Amnesty — Now or in Two Years | Center for Immigration Studies