February 1, 2014

Eric Cantor Versus the Founders on Immigration

By John Bennett
Those who have considered the consequences of amnesty, legalization, or a path to citizenship usually come to a few simple conclusions: -Politically, we'd have "an electorate containing tens of millions of additional low-skilled, low-wage voters," writes Powerline's Paul Mirengoff.  As Byron York has shown using election models of the Hispanic vote, Mitt Romney would have needed 73% of the Hispanic vote to win the 2012 election. -Ideologically, we know that "[t]hree-quarters of U.S. Hispanics prefer a big government which provides more services to a small one providing fewer services," as recent Pew Research polling found. -Economically, the influx would drive down the wages of working-class Americans, a point made by Harvard economist George Borjas, among others. -Culturally, we're now well over two decades into "The Disuniting of America" -- the process described by Arthur Schlesinger whereby multiculturalism "opposes the idea of a common culture, rejects the goals...(Read Full Article)