Schlafly: The Liberal Newcomers

"By itself," writes Phyllis Schlafly, attorney and author of a new report on the effects of the current mass legal immigration system in the U.S., "the annual flow of 1.1 million legal immigrants under the current system will create more than 5 million new potential voters by 2024 and more than 8 million by 2028." And that's before the current proposals of legislation to give legal status/amnesty to millions more immigrants currently residing in the U.S.

The problem for a nation founded on the unique principles of  constrained government power, individual liberty and free-markets is that these prospective new voters do not share America's long-standing principles. Cautions the report:

Immigration is creating both an enormous new clientele for government programs and also a voting block to support it.

The report includes several charts and graphics, including the two posted here, showing the gulf between recent immigrants and the general American public. Other graphics relate to immigrant views on capitalism, environmentalism and gun control.

Schlafly looks at previous immigrant populations, their assimilation over time and their impact on the nation; and she cautions that immigration transforms society, but American society does not always transform immigrants.

"The generally liberal views of today's immigrants do not mean they are bad people. Most immigrants are hard working and love their families, and many are religious. Many hard-working Americans not of recent-immigrant origin who are devoted to their families also want to expand government. Nevertheless, platitudes about immigrants' being hard working does not make them conservatives when it comes to the size and scope of government."

Nor, it turns out, do the platitudes suggest new immigrant voters will likely become small-government conservatives any time in the near future.