Immigration Wars: Forging an American Solution (23 page)

6.
 Julia Preston and Fernanda Santos, “A Record Latino Turnout, Solidly Backing Obama,”
New York Times,
November 8, 2012, p. P13.

7.
 “Immigrants and the GOP,”
Wall Street Journal,
November 14, 2012, p. A16.

8.
 Sam Francis, “The Myth of the Hispanic Republicans,”
http://www.vdare.com/francis/hispanic_republicans.htm
.

9.
 Heather Mac Donald, “Myth Debunked: A Latin Conservative Tidal Wave Is Not Coming,”
National Review,
July 24, 2006.

10.
 Quoted in Ken Mehlman, “Hispanic Outreach Crucial to GOP,”
Politico.com
, May 1, 2007.

11.
 Mark Hugo Lopez, “The Latino Electorate in 2010: More Voters, More Non-Voters,” Pew Hispanic Center, April 26, 2011.

12.
 Lopez, “Latinos and the 2010 Elections.”

13.
 Associated Press, “No One-Size-Fits-All Approach to Wooing Hispanics,” July 2, 2012.

14.
 Pew Hispanic Center, “The Latino Vote in the 2010 Elections,” November 3, 2010; updated November 17, 2010.

15.
 Latino Coalition, National Survey of Hispanic Adults, October 2, 2006.

16.
 Ibid., p. 15.

17.
 Mehlman, “Hispanic Outreach Crucial to GOP.”

18.
 Lopez, “Latinos and the 2010 Elections.”

19.
 
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/states/AZ/I/01/epolls.0.html
.

20.
 Ibid.

21.
 Hector Berrera, “Latinos Less Certain About Voting Than Others,”
Los Angeles Times,
October 11, 2012.

22.
 Tamar Jacoby, “GOP Can’t Lose Latinos,”
Los Angeles Times,
November 17, 2006.

23.
 John Zogby, “The Battle for the Latino Vote,” League of United Latin American Citizens Press Release, November 29, 2006.

24.
 Adam Nagourney, “In California, G.O.P. Fights Steep Decline,”
New York Times,
July 23, 2012, p. A10.

25.
 Cameron Joseph, “Latino Support for GOP Plunges in Arizona,”
Hill,
October 10, 2012.

26.
 Brad Bailey, “The GOP’s New Immigration Solution,”
Politico.com
, August 30, 2012.

27.
 Laura Meckler and Douglas J. Belkin, “State GOPs Give Platforms a Centrist Twist,”
Wall Street Journal,
June 16–17, 2012.

28.
 The Polling Company, Inc., and the Ampersand Agency, “Hispanic Voters: Perceptions of and Perspectives on School Choice,” June 2007, p. 18.

29.
 Beck Research LLC, American Federation for Children/Hispanic CREO Survey Findings, May 2012, p. 3.

30.
 Beck Research Survey, pp. 4, 14, and 25.

31.
 Ibid., p. 12.

32.
 Polling Company/Ampersand Survey, p. 33.

33.
 Ibid., p. 47.

34.
 Ibid., p. 50.

35.
 Ibid., p. 52.

36.
 Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life and Pew Hispanic Forum,
Changing Faiths: Latinos and the Transformation of American Religion
(Washington, DC: Pew Hispanic Center, 2007), p. 7.

37.
 Ibid., p. 17.

38.
 Ibid., p. 29.

39.
 Gaston Espinoza, Virgilio Elizondo, and Jesse Miranda, “Hispanic Churches in American Public Life: Summary of Findings,” University of Notre Dame Institute for Latino Studies, March 2003, p. 15.

40.
 
Changing Faiths
, p. 59.

41.
 Espinoza et al.,
Hispanic Churches
, p. 18.

42.
 
Changing Faiths
, p. 68.

43.
 Ibid., pp. 69–70.

44.
 Ibid., p. 78.

45.
 Latino Coalition National Survey, p. 4.

46.
 James G. Gimpel, “Latino Voting in the 2006 Election: Realignment to the GOP Remains Distant,” Center for Immigration Studies, March 2007, p. 6.

47.
 Clare Abreu, “The Latino Vote, On Its Own Terms,” National Public Radio, May 11, 2007.

A+ accountability plan (Florida),
184
–85

abortion,
208
,
211
,
220
,
221

accountability: in education,
184
–85,
188

administration

of immigration and naturalization policy,
14
–15,
30
,
31
–32,
54
,
110
–11,
123
,
124
,
125
,
126

See also
Congress, U.S.; Constitution, U.S.;
specific department/agency

adults: as illegal immigrants,
41
–44

Agent Piggy,
97

agriculture industry,
xiv
–xv,
80
–82,
86
,
87

Alabama: agriculture in,
81
–82

Alden, Edward,
15
,
139

Alien and Sedition Acts (1798),
123

Alliance for School Choice,
154

Ambram, Pablo,
97

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU),
154

American Dream,
xxii
,
59
,
115
,
132
,
145
–46,
152
,
166
,
173
,
174
,
175
,
210
,
222

American Exceptionalism,
x
,
xi
,
224

American Federation for Children,
217

American Federation of Labor (AFL),
127

American Immigration Lawyers Association,
112

American Party,
125

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (2009),
93

Americans, hyphenated,
xvi

Americans for Tax Reform,
150

amnesty programs,
7
,
40
–41,
44
,
108
,
133
–34,
137

Arboleya, Carlos,
132

Arizona

Arpaio activities in,
109
–10,
213

Bolick’s concerns about,
xxii
–xxiv

border security and,
xxiv

education in,
184
,
185
,
189
–90,
192
–94

illegal immigration and,
109
,
169
–71

immigration reform in,
11
,
39
,
109
–10,
113
,
169
–71,
213

nativism in,
212

orphan abduction in,
xxiii

Proposition
204
in,
210

Republican concerns about immigration in,
xxiii
–xxiv

and Republicans connecting with Hispanics and immigrants,
212
–13

S.B. 1070 in,
11
,
109
,
113
,
171
,
213

views about Mexican immigration in,
xxii
–xxiv

voter identification laws in,
39

Arizona Republic
: Vazquez sisters profile in,
157

Arpaio, Joseph,
109
–10,
213

Ashcroft, John,
xiii

Asians,
139
,
202
–3.
See also
China; Japan

aspirational class,
xv
,
117
,
146
,
223
–24

assimilation,
57
–62,
125
,
140
,
142

background checks,
9
,
23

BASIS Schools Inc.,
189
,
190

Becker, Gary S.,
72
–73,
101
–2

biometric identification,
54
–56,
135
,
137

bipartisanship

core principles for immigration reform and,
113
–14

and core values as bridging partisanship,
11

education and,
216
–17

elections of 2012 and,
8

Hispanic influence on elections and,
138
–39

ideological extremes and,
5
–6,
8

importance of immigration reform and,
4
,
13
,
62
,
113
,
138
–39,
142

Kyl-Kennedy proposal and,
xxiii
,
137
–38

need for immigration reform and,
xxv

Obama executive orders and,
112

political courage and,
xxv

and Republican strategies for connecting with Hispanic and immigrant voters,
216
–17

for StartUp Visa Act,
27

undermining of,
5
–6

black-market economy,
17
,
106
,
107

Blaine Amendments,
129
,
193

Block, Michael and Olga,
189

Bloomberg, Michael,
101

Blueseed,
67
–68

Bolick, Clint

Bush’s relationship with,
xxv
–xxvi

concerns about Arizona of,
xxii
–xxiv

education savings accounts defense by,
194

importance of immigration policy to,
xix
–xxvii

as lawyer representing immigrants,
xxi
–xxii

at naturalization ceremony,
xxvi

personal and professional background of,
xix
–xx

Bolick, Irma,
xx

Bolick, Jerry,
xix
–xx

Border Patrol, U.S.,
xiii
,
9
,
48
,
53
,
127
,
136

border security

Arizona concerns about,
xxiv

biometric identification and,
54
–56

Bush (George H. W.) task force on,
xiv

Bush (Jeb) story about,
xii
–xiv

costs of illegal immigration and,
107

decline in illegal immigration and,
114

elections of 2012 and,
201

and enforcement of visa requirements,
xiv
,
49
–50

federal-state relations and,
xiii
–xiv

funding for,
137

history of immigration policy and,
133
,
134

and illegal immigrants remaining in U.S.,
134

illegal immigration and,
13
,
47
–52,
107
,
114
,
134

impasse on immigration reform and,
6
,
7

initiatives concerning,
xiv

Kyl-Kennedy proposal and,
137

local government and,
53

and McCain-Kennedy proposal,
137

Mexico and,
53

national security/terrorism and,
50
,
53
–57,
136

need for reform of immigration policy and,
xii
–xiv,
16
,
117

“operational control” and,
48

proposal concerning,
47
–57

public opinion about,
9
,
108
–9

reversal of Mexican immigration and,
87

state role in immigration policy and,
38

technology and,
49
,
52
,
53
,
54
–56,
137

See also
drugs; fence; law enforcement

bracero
program,
130
–31

Bradley (Lynde and Harry) Foundation,
60

brain drain

reversing the,
88
–102

See also
high-skilled immigrants

Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S.,
85

Bush, Columba Garnica de Gallo,
ix
–xi

Bush, George H. W.,
x
,
xi
,
xiii
,
xiv

Bush, George W.,
xiii
,
5
,
135
,
203
,
205
,
210

Bush, Georgia Helena Walker,
xvi
–xvii

Bush, Jeb

Bolick’s relationship with,
xxv
–xxvi

education policy and,
xxv

Hispanic voter support for,
205

and human dimension of immigration policy,
xii

importance of immigration policy to,
ix
–xvii

personal and professional background of,
ix
–xiv

Bush, Jeb Jr.,
xvi

Bush, Noelle,
xi

business.
See
entrepreneurs; small businesses

California,
125
,
128
,
211
–12

Cannato, Vincent J.,
133

Carlson, Tucker,
200

Carpe Diem Schools,
192
–93

Census, U.S.,
206

Center for the Study of the American Dream, Xavier University,
59

“chain immigration,”
20
,
21
,
95
,
133
,
134
,
138

charities,
125
–26

charter schools,
xxvi
,
185
,
188
,
189
–90,
192
,
217
–18

Chicago, Illinois: education in,
182

children of illegal immigrants

citizenship for,
41

costs of illegal immigration and,
107

dealing with,
41
,
44
–47

Obama’s deferred-action policy and,
45
,
111
–12,
156
,
158
,
159
,
166

public opinion about,
9
–10