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Wednesday, August 1, 2012, 8:44 AM EDT - posted on NumbersUSA
Ted Cruz
Former Texas State Solicitor Ted Cruz overwhelmingly defeated Texas Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst on Tuesday in the GOP runoff for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by long-time Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison. Cruz completed a NumbersUSA immigration-reduction survey answering "yes" to all questions earning him "True Reformer" status.
Cruz captured the GOP nomination with 57% of the vote. In the primary held back in May, Dewhurst beat Cruz by 10 points, but didn't secure 50% of the vote forcing yesterday's runoff.
Cruz has consistently maintained an immigration platform that focuses on interior enforcement, workplace verification, and border security. His NumbersUSA survey responses also show his commitment to reducing the overall numbers.
Dewhurst, while endorsing a mandatory workplace verification system, has been less than enthusiastic when it comes to border security and interior enforcement. He also supported the Texas in-state tuition bill for illegal aliens passed back in 2001, and as Texas Senate President prevented key enforcement legislation, including Gov. Rick Perry's anti-sanctuary citiy, bill from coming to the floor for a vote.
Kay Bailey Hutchison has served in the U.S. Senate since 1993, and while she did oppose attempts to pass the DREAM Act the 2010, she has been mediocre at best on the issue, earning a career NumbersUSA grade of a C+. In 2006 and 2007, she supported the Bush-Kennedy-McCain mass amnesty bills in the Senate. She also voted to strip the creation of a workplace verification system in Rep. Lamar Smith's 1996 Illegal Immigration Control and Immigration Reform Act, and she has opposed attempts to end the Visa Lottery.
Oppose Amnesty Support Tougher Enforcement Oppose Rewards for Illegal Migration Opinion Elites vs. Public - Tuesday, April 14, 2009
A new Rasmussen poll shows that 66% of likely voters believe that the government should improve border enforcement and reduce illegal immigration. However, only 32% of America's "Political Class" agree.
The poll also shows that 77% of likely voters believe that illegal aliens should not be able to receive driver's licenses and 73% of Americans believe that police officers should automatically check to see if someone is in this country legally when that person is pulled over for a traffic violation.
Only 32% of Obama voters considered his support for amnesty as a factor in their decisions to vote for him. 67% said it was either not a factor at all, or they voted for Obama in spite of his stance on amnesty.
60% of voters said reducing illegal immigration and cracking down on employers who hire them is important to them, while only 21% supported "legalizing or creating a pathway to citizenship" for illegal aliens.
57% of voters stated that amnesty would harm American workers and further strain public resources, while only 26% believe amnesty would aid economic recovery and ease public burdens.
The head of an immigration-reduction organization says one
Republican presidential hopeful has dramatically improved his
grade on immigration issues.
Until recently, Rick
Santorum had received a "D-minus" on the immigration grade
card compiled by Numbers
USA. But Roy Beck, founder and president of the immigration
think tank, says the former Pennsylvania senator has raised his
grade to an "A-minus" based on some comments he made at a recent
event in South Carolina.
Roche said she was also taking a closer look at former Sen. Rick
Santorum, who received an A- grade from NumbersUSA, a group that
champions reduced immigration to the United States. The group rated both
Santorum and Romney "excellent" on opposing "Amnesty/Legalization," but
said it could find no record of Romney supporting lower overall
immigration levels, both legal and illegal. He received a C+.
Myrtle Beach voter Michael Comer, 60, who heads the group Grand Strand
Citizens for Immigration Reduction, also said he would vote for Romney.
He said he liked some of the ideas put forward by Ron Paul, the only
candidate who has said that children of illegal immigrants should not be
automatically granted citizenship if born on U.S. soil, according to
NumbersUSA. But Comer said he thought some of Paul's other ideas about
government were unworkable.
Immigration seems set to play a large role in the primary. A group called Numbers USA has been running commercials that call on Congress to tighten immigration rules. A diverse cast of characters — white, black, Asian and Hispanic — ask, “Should Congress give new work permits to 1 million new legal immigrants again this year when 20 million Americans of all colors, national origin and religion are having trouble finding jobs?”
NumbersUSA announced on Tuesday that it will spend at least $100,000 on
advertising before the South Carolina Republican primary on Jan. 21 in
an effort to tie high unemployment levels to legal immigration.
Why then are the conservative credentials of Messrs. Gingrich and Perry being questioned? Aren't their positions in line with the Gipper's? Ironically, it is their accusers who are not being true to conservative principles. Many echo the anti-immigration sentiments of such restrictionist groups as the Federation for American Immigration Reform, NumbersUSA and the Center for Immigration Studies, which are anything but conservative. These groups are mostly led by population-control activists and radical environmentalists who agree with the absurd Malthusian premise that people are pollution.
Roy Beck is founder and president of Numbers USA, an anti-illegal immigration organization that gives Perry a "D-minus" on
its immigration enforcement report card. He says the governor's poor
showing in the recent Florida straw poll proves that Republican
primaries are not kind to those who appear to be more concerned about
workers who are in the country illegally than they are for Americans who
need a job.
When
Rick Perry got into the Republican presidential race, many party conservatives
rejoiced that they had found their candidate. But not the party's vocal
immigration hard-liners. On their issue, they rate the Texas governor slightly worse than the rest
of the GOP presidential hopefuls.
By Fawn Johnson -- National Journal
When
Rick Perry got into the Republican presidential race, many party conservatives
rejoiced that they had found their candidate. But not the party's vocal
immigration hard-liners. On their issue, they rate the Texas governor slightly worse than the rest
of the GOP presidential hopefuls.
“We
pulled everything we could get on Perry and immigration, and it came out to a
D-minus,” said
NumbersUSA Executive Director Roy Beck, who advocates for limited immigration
into the United States.
“During his time as governor of Texas, Rick Perry consistently
supported allowing illegal aliens to pay in-state tuition at Texas’
state colleges and universities,” says an assessment of Perry’s
immigration record by NumbersUSA.
Here’s what Perry told the New Hampshire Union Leader on July 24: “To punish these young Texans for their parents’ actions is not what America has always been about.”
Despite giving the Texas governor credit for border enforcement efforts, NumbersUSA, which advocates “lower immigration levels,” gives Perry a “D minus” grade on the issue.
NumbersUSA, which advocates for low levels of immigration, recently gave
Perry a D- grade for his various policy stances. While the grade
actually puts him in the middle of the pack among presidential
contenders (only Michele Bachmann is in "B" territory), Perry's close
association with the border guarantee that he'll receive plenty more
attention. According to the group's president, Roy Beck, the biggest
knock on Perry is his opposition to mandating the use of E-Verify, a
federal electronic system for checking prospective workers' immigration
status. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson (R-TX) pushed Perry on the issue hard
in her 2010 primary campaign against the governor, pledging in a debate
to use the system on all state employees.
How many illegal immigrants could gain legal status under an idea proposed by Newt Gingrich? Perhaps as many as 3.5 million, according to figures published Thursday by the Pew Hispanic Center in Washington.
Mr. Gingrich set himself apart from his leading rivals for the Republican presidential nomination last week by saying that he would open a path to legal status for illegal immigrants who had been in the country for many years, had strong family ties here — children and maybe grandchildren — and no criminal record. The Pew Center took up the challenge of calculating how many illegal immigrants might meet Mr. Gingrich’s standards.
Polls may not suggest it, and the
candidates may not be catering to it, but immigration is an
issue that voters won’t let the GOP White House hopefuls escape.
Republican primary voters keep bringing immigration up as the
candidates campaign in back yards, opera houses and recreation
halls across Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. To a sizable
chunk of those who will pick the GOP’s presidential nominee,
immigration is an urgent issue, even a litmus test.
By Philip Rucker and and Amy Gardner -- Washington Post
Chris Cillizza’s March 28 Monday Fix column, “Growth in Hispanic population poses challenge for Republicans,” argued that results from the 2010 Census paint a grim picture of the Republican Party’s future because of the increase in the number of Hispanic voters.
Newt Gingrich’s simultaneous courtship of the base of the Republican Party and Latino voters could pose major problems for his likely bid for the White House.
Gingrich, who is soon expected to announce the formation of a presidential exploratory committee, frequently stresses the need for the GOP to reach out to Latinos. According to the 2010 census, Latinos are now the fastest-growing and largest minority group in the country.
In states far from the Mexico border — from liberal Massachusetts to moderate Iowa — Democrats and Republicans in gubernatorial races are running on strict anti-illegal-immigration platforms, pledging to sign an array of tough enforcement measures into law come January.
Of the 37 gubernatorial races this year, candidates in more than 20 states have endorsed adopting a strict Arizona-style immigration law or passing legislation that makes it harder for illegal immigrants to live, work and access basic public benefits in their states, according to a POLITICO analysis.
Call it the “Arizona effect.” Immigration got plenty of attention as the 2010 political season got underway in earnest, with primaries in 12 states this week and other races thinning out to the top contenders.
SB 1070, the new hard-line Arizona law that tasks state and local police with immigration enforcement, seemed to create a line in the sand, and candidates were pushed to decide on which side they stood.
More than 1 million immigrants became U.S. citizens last year, the largest surge in history, hastening the ethnic transformation of California's political landscape with more Latinos and Asians now eligible to vote.
Leading the wave, California's 300,000 new citizens accounted for nearly one-third of the nation's total and represented a near-doubling over 2006, according to a recent report by the U.S. Office of Immigration Statistics. Florida recorded the second-largest group of new citizens, and Texas claimed the fastest growth.
According to TheHill.com, a congressional newspaper that publishes when Congress is in session, "Romney believes that one way to attract more minorities to the GOP is to pass immigration reform before the next election, saying the issue becomes demagogued by both parties on the campaign trail." The article also quotes Romney as saying, "We have a natural affinity with Hispanic-American voters, Asian-American voters."
As part of conservatives' sober assessment of the 2008 election, we need to take a close look at the so-called "Hispanic vote." I offer the following observations, which are based on the latest available exit poll data and respected voter surveys. The real problem goes much deeper than John McCain's inept campaign. We can and must do a better job of reaching Hispanic voters, but we can do that without pandering or compromising conservative principles.
Janet Napolitano may be as familiar a face in Florence, Italy, as she is in Florence, Ariz.
The selection of "Janet, the Italian sheriff" - as the daily La Stampa put it - to become the nation's next Homeland Security secretary sparked interest and excitement in the country from which Napolitano's grandfather emigrated from in the early 1900s.
Italians are fascinated not only by Napolitano's cultural heritage but also by what they view as her innovative strategies as a border-state governor, hence the term "sheriff," said Maurizio Molinari, the Torino-based newspaper's U.S. correspondent.
"The general perception . . . is that she is in the first row facing illegal immigration," a hot-button issue here and there, Molinari said.
"Her decision to work more to prevent the illegal immigration from inside Arizona (is) a strategy that is very similar (to) the one Italy is trying to apply."
Andre F. Radzischewski, Arizona Republic, December 7, 2008
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