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Here I addressed the increase in voters who will vote socialist policies into place.  After quoting from “Contours of the Mexican Left,” I said:

The coming years will see a cataclysmic shift in the political scene in America with the addition of millions of voters who have been trained to believe that they are “oppressed� by the bourgeois elite and who, by the gift of a vote, will then be empowered to take from the middle class the things that they see as rightfully theirs.

I made the case in this commentary that the U.S., by the absurd immigration policy accidentally or intentionally enacted over the last two decades, will sustain the influx of millions of voters, many or most of whom will vote socialist in their world-view.  The Center for Immigration Studies has yet another political effect of immigrants, both legal and illegal.  They say:

It is important, then, when making decisions regarding immigration policy, to take into account not only the economic, fiscal, cultural, and demographic impacts of immigration, but also the political impact, part of which is the realignment of power in Congress away from states receiving relatively few immigrants. In addition to this realignment, careful consideration should also be given to the loss of representation suffered by citizens in low-immigration states. Trying to deal with this problem by excluding non-citizens, legal or illegal, would be very difficult politically and is probably impossible as a practical matter. Moreover, it would result in many years of litigation as the courts determined its constitutionality. Encouraging legal immigrants who are not citizens to naturalize would help to alleviate at least some of the problem. Of course, increased naturalizations would have no impact on the problem created by the presence of illegal aliens. In addition, as long as one million or more new legal immigrants are allowed in annually, the non-citizen population will always be very large even if new immigrants naturalize as soon as they reach the five-year time requirement. 

The central thesis of the paper is that House (of Representatives) reapportionment will not only cause a significant shift in politics due to the lose and gain of seats in the House, it already has.  This is a run-down of all House seats redistributed due to all non-citizens in 2000:

Loss of 1 (-1): Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Utah, Wisconsin.

Gains: California (+6), Florida (+1), New York (+1) and Texas (+1).  California gains this way.  As my friend intimates at “Cop the Truth,” ‘living in the occupied terrirories of southern California’, a gain by California is a gain by socialism.

So while I pointed out a coming shift in the long-term political landscape from immigration of socialists from Mexico, the Center for Immigration Studies shows us a real, short term effect that has already been realized.

Yet we keep it up.  It is simply unfathomable.

Update #1: Courtesy of John Hawkins at Right Wing News:

“Local police said they intercepted 20 illegal Mexican immigrants, but were ordered by immigration officials to let them go free.

Belmont County Sheriff Fred Thompson said his officers were instructed by federal immigration services to let all 20 illegal immigrants go free, and said his department has no choice but to follow the orders from immigration officials.”

I have said it before.  It is all about the vote.  We are watching the creation of a new welfare state — one in which the ultimate goal is to pay off the Hispanic vote with subsidies, welfare, medicaid, tuition grants, and every other way the federal government can find to spread its largesse around to garner votes.  The feds do not want to stop immigration — legal or illegal — because it creates new votes.  The goal is to make sure that the “other side” does not pick up those votes.  It is politics about as crude, crass and ugly as can be imagined.  It completely ignores the good of America in favor of the good of those in power.