When Republicans started to believe in racial bloc voting - when they stopped believing that nonwhite people could ever be persuaded to vote Republican - they started to see immigration as an invasion. This explains why immigration is now at the center of partisan conflict.https://twitter.com/SenatorBrakey/status/1056540826317283328 …
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Obviously there are many other issues that mattered (and matter) to Hispanics and Asians, but it's very very hard to win people over when you're also trying to boot their relatives from the country.
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UK shows a different example. I am an Asian immigrant in the UK. The immigration regime here is reasonably liberal but it is very strict for family immigration. But I would wager that the Conservatives still get a greater share of Asian votes here than Republicans get in the US.
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