New Poll: Jeff Denham’s Hispanic Constituents Don’t Want His Amnesty
By Mark Krikorian on May 18, 2018
Rep. Jeff Denham (R-Calif.) is in a tough re-election fight. He won by three points in 2016 in a district Hillary carried by the same margin. His district, centered on Modesto, is about 40 percent Hispanic.
That last fact explains his leading role in trying to get a "Dreamer" amnesty passed through the House. Working with the Democrats, he is pushing a discharge petition, which, if it gets 218 signatures, would force the leadership to bring up four immigration bills for a vote, and whichever one passed with the largest number of votes would be enacted. (This is the so-called queen-of-the-hill rule.) Without going into detail, Denham's hope is that the amnesty bill he has co-sponsored, H.R. 4796, would be the one to get the most votes. That bill would pair an amnesty even more expansive than the 1.8 million illegal aliens that the president has agreed to, with some unremarkable border-security window-dressing that would do nothing to contain the fallout of the amnesty.
https://cis.org/Krikorian/New-Poll-Jeff-Denhams-Hispanic-Constituents-Dont-Want-His-Amnesty
