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Originally Posted by Oldglory
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Data that is ten years old (the article was in 2005, the data is up to 2004) has changed. In 2012, there was 13.3 million Legal Permanent Residents (65% eligible to naturalize, but have not) alone (increasing at a pace of about 325,000 per year). That's not counting legal immigrants that have naturalized to U.S. citizenship (citizenship does not take away the fact that you immigrated from somewhere else). You have to go through legal residency (i.e. "legally immigrate") to naturalize.
That even shoots down the myth that the Democratic Party supports illegal immigration for the potential votes. If it were for votes, they would put the effort into naturalizing the 8.8 million eligible LPRs, 30% of them Mexican Nationals, that could almost immediately then vote in the next election (instead of "legalizing" illegal aliens somehow to legal residency, then wait more than five years for them to apply to naturalize). President Obama would instead be creating Executive Orders to lower the costs of the 'N' applications (USCIS has two types of forms, the 'I' forms are for immigration, and the 'N' forms are for naturalization), and the Democrats would be running intensive naturalization campaigns.