Immigration
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Why Republicans should love undocumented immigrants
The conventional wisdom is that Democrats benefit from immigration. A new paper by Anna Maria Mayda, Giovanni Peri and Walter Steingress shows that this is true, at least on average. Larger numbers of immigrants who acquire citizenship (and can thus vote) increase election returns for Democratic candidates across different types of U.S. elections. Yet increases in the share of non-citizen migrants are correlated with higher Republican vote shares.