New IPC Report Reveals Voting Patterns Behind House’s Passage of Immigration Enforcement Bill

02/28/2006
Via AILA (The American Immigration Lawyers Association)

 The Immigration Policy Center,
a division of AILF, AILA’s sister foundation, has released a new
report–“Playing Politics on Immigration”–showing that U.S.
Representatives with low numbers of undocumented immigrants residing in
their districts were most likely to support the Border Protection,
Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act (H.R. 4437), passed
by the House in December. IPC Research Fellow Rob Paral writes,
“Lawmakers whose constituents experience relatively little impact from
undocumented immigration have the luxury of playing politics on the
issue rather than confronting it directly.” View the full report.