The Immigration Policy Center (IPC), which is the research arm of the American Immigration Law Foundation, is out with a new report detailing the growing political power of "New Americans": foreign-born, recently naturalized U.S. citizens as well as their U.S.-born children.
Today, in a joint conference call with members of the National Council of La Raza, the Asian American Justice Center, and America's Voice, the IPC announced the report, which was prepared by the office of Rob Paral & Associates. Frank Sharry, from America's Voice, said that this growing trend of pro-immigrant votes strengthens the call for humane immigration reform. In his view, this New Americans can hurt the Republicans chances in November 4th:
"You can't insult people and then ask them to vote for you if you want to be succesful. Now it's time for the Democrats to be on the offense, and demonstrate they can really solve problems and stand for humane treatment of immigrants."
He added that the fight for immigration reform in 2009 will still be a difficult battle, particularly if Republicans try to once again use immigration reform as a divisive issue looking forward to the 2010 midterm elections.
The full report, titled The New American Electorate: The Growing Political Power of Immigrants and Their Children, is available here.
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