A big R claim about immigration is that Ds are encouraging it in order to get votes.
This claim ignores several salient facts, viz.:
1. Only US citizens can vote in US elections.
2. There is no clear path to citizenship for illegal immigrants and even for legal immigrants the process is tortuous and takes years.
3. Although children of immigrant parents born in the US are citizens and entitled to vote, it takes 18 years before they are old enough.
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@DavidSalo A friend of mine married a man whose family came here from Mexico when he was 4 or 5 years old. They did everything according to law. He voted for the first time in his early 30s. When I asked why he hadn't voted before he said, "This is the first time I could." Then he explained a lot of things to me about the citizenship process!