In an op-ed published by the Washington Post this past weekend, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), who will likely become the Chair of the House Judiciary Committee in the next Congress, detailed the support Republican House candidates received from Hispanic voters during the recent mid-term elections. Rep. Smith referred to exit polling that revealed a 9 percent increase in the support of Hispanic voters for House Republican candidates.
A lot of the news media have fallen for an open-borders advocacy argument that the survival of Senators Reid (Nevada) and Bennet (Colo.) shows that politicians are wise to take a pro-amnesty stance.
The number of True Reformers in the next U.S. House of Representatives will double. We had 38 True Reformers in the current House. We count 73 Representatives in the new Congress pledged to a full menu of immigration reductions -- and we think that number is going to grow before Congress convenes in January. These are our tigers who are pledged to claw out some actual improvements in immigration policies the next two years, leading other anti-amnesty Members to follow them.
Back in February, we began the giant task of sending out our Immigration-Reduction Survey to more than 1,500 Congressional candidates. We received about 500 completed surveys, and for Tuesday's mid-term elections, 157 Congressional races across the country had at least one candidate who completed a survey. Over the nine month period, our Survey and Candidate Comparison pages received lots of media coverage, including a post-election column written by Mark Krikorian for the National Review.
(NOTE: Be sure to look at our TV page with all the election results for every congressional race, and blog items from our 10-hour live coverage of the returns Tuesday: http://www.numbersusa.tv )
On Tuesday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down a 2004 Arizona law requiring proof of U.S. citizenship in order to register and vote in U.S. elections. This is another case of the lax enforcement of our immigration laws leading to abuse and confusion.
On December 16, 1773 there was a revolution in the Boston harbor. On November 2, 2010 there will be a revolution on Election Day. It’s Tea Party time in America. In the Senate alone, the Tea Party earthquake hit Nevada, Colorado, Utah, Kentucky, Delaware, Alaska, and Florida. But where do these anti-establishment candidates stand on Immigration issues? Where do these 7 key Senate candidates stand on Immigration Reduction? Reading the Tea leaves reveals an uncertain future.
If you want to make a last-minute campaign donation where it can make a difference for better immigration policies . . . Here are the High-Immigration Incumbents who are in trouble and could lose . . .
Check out this new graphic that shows the current balance between Members of Congress wanting More Immigration (ORANGE) and wanting Less Immigration (GREEN). On Election Night, TV networks will be tracking the Red-Blue shift between political parties. Come to the NumbersUSA home page to watch how each election winner shifts the Orange-Green balance. . . .
We know that most of our NumbersUSA members are dedicated either to the Republican or Democratic Party because of a wide array of issues and ideologies that are dear to you. Today, I'm writing for those of you who are wondering where you can make contributions to congressional Democratic incumbents nationwide who have been the most reliable in resisting immigration increases and in working for reductions. Here are the 18 Democrats who have earned a Grade-B or better for both their Career and for This Congress . . .
We saw some exciting results in the primary elections yesterday as many candidates won who had pledged to support all 12 of NumbersUSA's top immigration priorities. The chances are going up with every Primary election for a much-improved Congress in terms of sensible immigration policy and reduced numbers. The 5th worst Republican in the Senate may have lost her seat, for example.
NINE candidates certified as NumbersUSA True Reformer Candidates have won their respective primaries, and Joe Miller is leading in Alaska's Senate Primary.
Rep. John Boozman (R.Ark.) received more than 50% of the vote in Tuesday's Republican Senatorial Primary, avoiding a run-off and winning the party's nomination for the Senate seat currently held by Blanche Lincoln. Rep. Boozman holds a career A-grade and completed a NumbersUSA Immigration-Reduction Survey, agreeing with NumbersUSA on all our key issues.
Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) has served in the Senate for nearly 30 years, but the five-term incumbent lost his primary bid for a sixth term on Tuesday. Sen. Specter has a career D-grade over the last two Congresses and holds a D or worse in every category graded by NumbersUSA except for one.
Immigration was not a pivotal issue in any of the elections held today, but the results of the ballots certainly suggest opportunity for changes in the balance between the promoters of foreign labor and the champions for America's unemployed.
Sen. Robert Bennett is a prime example of how immigration plays with the Republican Party's national elite and their preference for the greediest of business lobbyists over regular taxpaying citizens and the majority of business owners who prefer strong immigration enforcement over heavy foreign labor importation. Utah's grassroots Republican leaders sent quite a message over the weekend that they don't think much of their Party's national elite, as they refused to allow incumbent Sen. Robert Bennett a chance to run for a fourth term.
Voters in Virginia and New Jersey elected Bob McDonnell and Chris Christie, respectively, as their state's next governors because of concerns for high taxes and a lack of job creation. But both candidates also indicated during their campaigns a commitment for strong state immigration enforcement.
The Justice Department has rejected Georgia's system of using Social Security numbers and driver's license data to check whether prospective voters are citizens, a process that was a subject of a federal lawsuit in the weeks leading up to November's election.
