A Giant Illegal Alien 'I Told You So'

How many times in the past did this blog -- and many others -- question the sanity of Republicans for being soft on illegal immigration?  A bunch.  Aside from the sovereignty of American law, aside from the statistical proof that illegal immigration increases crime, and aside from the wet sucking sound that illegal immigrants create on our economy, there's also the fact that most illegal immigrants vote Democrat (yes, I know they're not supposed to vote...they're also not supposed to be here at all!).  John McCain proved that beyond all doubt - he's the biggest Republican amnesty-pusher in the country, but he got less of the Hispanic vote in 2008 than George W. Bush did in the prior election!  If you want to ignore the ethics of the whole thing and the issues above, then at least look at the practical reality of the situation: supporting amnesty never helps Republicans win elections!

Michelle Malkin drives the point home:

Obama Census Plan: No Illegal Alien Left Behind

I have seen the electoral future, and it is rigged. With fraud-prone, ideologically-driven interest groups swarming the census-gathering process, the Left is solidifying its chances of a permanent ruling majority. Lax immigration enforcement is the not-so-secret key to the Democrats' power grab. And the Obama administration is all too happy to aid and abet.

At a meeting to mobilize volunteer trainees assisting with the decennial national head count, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke encouraged the government's partners to spread the word that privacy rights of census-takers would not be violated and that accuracy and fairness would be ensured. Locke assured the activists: "We all recognize what is at stake."

But do you?

The volunteer groups Commerce Secretary Locke is entrusting to protect accuracy and fairness include the race racketeers and voter registration con artists of tax-subsidized ACORN, the amnesty activists of Voto Latino, and the labor mobsters of the SEIU. The fate of $300 billion in federal funding – and, most importantly, the apportionment of Congressional seats – rest in their hands.

As for "privacy rights," it's not your privacy rights they care about. It's the privacy rights of millions of illegal aliens whose advocates have enshrined for them a sacred right never to be questioned about their immigration status. Obama's census partners are using the process to pressure homeland security agents to halt interior enforcement efforts and workplace raids so that illegal alien cooperation with the national survey is maximized. Inclusion of the massive illegal alien population has resulted in a radical redrawing of the electoral map.

The Census is used to divvy up seats in the House as a proportion of their population based on the head count. More people equals more seats. More illegal immigrants counted equals more power. This is not hypothetical. The Center for Immigration Studies determined that in the 2000 election cycle, the presence of non-citizens (including illegal immigrants, temporary visitors, and green-card holders) caused nine seats in the House to switch hands. As the think tank's analysis reported: California added six seats it would not have had otherwise. Texas, New York, and Florida each gained a seat. Indiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin each lost a seat. Montana, Kentucky, and Utah each failed to secure a seat they would otherwise have gained.

Translation in plain English: Open borders have profound consequences. And they don't end with congressional apportionment. The redistribution of power extends to presidential elections because the Electoral College is pegged to the size of congressional delegations.

Under the Carter administration, the men and women who enforce our immigration laws were ordered not to do their jobs during the census count; non-enforcement was the unspoken policy during the Bush administration in 2000. Bipartisan policy, in other words, was to put political interests above security interests and leave No Illegal Alien Left Behind. The Obama Department of Homeland Security is already continuing the tradition – reversing the work of investigative agents who have uncovered massive document fraud at illegal alien worksites and cutting immigration and customs enforcement operations at the knees.

During the eight years of the Bush administration, groups such as ACORN received millions of dollars in subsidies for their racial and corporate shakedown activities. The pro-amnesty faction of the GOP pandered to unions such as the SEIU and ethnic lobbying groups such as Voto Latino seeking to boost their membership rolls.

Now, Republicans can only stand by helplessly while the political opponents they helped fund use the census to help wipe them off the electoral map. You reap what you sow.

If these Lefty groups truly do control the census, that's a gamechanger.  We know for a fact that ACORN is happy to break the law when it comes to elections, so there's really nothing preventing them from lying, 'adjusting', or even outright fabricating whatever numbers they want.  In fact, it has been proven (and admitted) that the Democrat party has fudged its numbers on certain key issues before, so can we really expect ACORN to be even more upright than the party it supports?

All the more reason for every possible honest, good, hard-working American to get into the game this next time around.

There's my two cents.