Aha! So here is why the right wingers don't like immigrants!

[proud2BlibKansan]

Democracy program aims to bolster Hispanics' political clout
By ROXANA HEGEMAN
The Associated Press
WICHITA, Kan. | The dozen immigrants gathered at the Sunflower Community Action's democracy class repeated the question, slowly and in unison.

"What is the most important right granted to United States citizens?"

Their teacher, Emira Palacios, emphatically led the answering chorus: "The right to vote."

She earnestly looked at her charges — immigrants both old and young from Mexico, Columbia and Guatemala — as she held up a voter registration form and told them that was the one expectation she had when they became U.S. citizens.

"Fill out this form and register to vote," said Palacios, whose class is part of a national initiative by immigrant rights advocates to naturalize the estimated 9.4 million legal immigrants in the U.S. eligible to become citizens in time for the November elections.

They're also targeting the immigrants' estimated 1.9 million U.S.-born children, now ages 18 to 24, who have not yet registered to vote.


more . . . http://www.kansascity.com/news/breaking_news/story/599083.html

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. There has always been an anti-immigrant bias here, it seems

the Know Nothing Party was a prime example of it. And yes, for the very reason you cite--people were afraid that "Irish" or "Germans" or "Italians" would overwhelm the WASP voting block and change the country forever.

[AlphaCentauri]

6. good observation tnx

[BOSSHOG]

2. I chuckle at the thought

Let us snap our fingers and get rid of every illegal alien in this country by midnight Sunday. By the following Friday, patriotic american conseratives will be howling at the moon because there is either no fresh produce on the grocery shelves or the price of it went through the roof. They do value their ignorance.

Whats that statue of liberty thing in New York harbor all about??


ROCK CHALK JAYHAWK!!!!!!

[Warpy]

3. Right wing idiots all swear that if we got rid of illegal immigrants

then membership in the Democratic Party would drop to zero and they could usher in their thousand year Reich, er, permanent GOP majority.

They always neglect the fact that illegals can't vote and that their survival in this country depends on staying far enough below official radar that they'll never even try to vote.

Of course, nobody ever accused a right winger of having active synapses.

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. Hey rock chalk right back atcha

:hi:

[AlphaCentauri]

5. A votar todos! but for who?

there are nazis everywhere