Places with the fewest immigrants push back hardest against immigration
CNN reports on an interesting politics of immigration phenomenon. One of the paradixes of the immigration debate is that generally the states and communities with the fewest immigrants are pushing to reduce immigration over the objections of the places with the most immigrants. (Note that Arizona may be the exception to the rule.).
Even as Republicans from President Trump to leading legislators in the House and Senate are driving to reduce both undocumented and legal immigration, the core of the GOP’s electoral strength in both presidential and Congressional contests are the places with the smallest share of immigrants, US Census data show.
Here is an interesting factoid, especially since President Trump has made immigration one of his central issues: “native-born residents account for 91% of the population in the states that Trump won and only 81% of the population in the states Clinton carried. “
KJ
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