Millennials, the largest demographic in the country, overwhelmingly disapprove plans to deport all undocumented immigrants currently living in the U.S.Read the whole story > Millenials on Immigration
"Based on the latest national poll by CNN and the Opinion ResearchCorporation (ORC) International, millennials, an age group largely comprising of Americans between 18 and 34 years old, said the government's top priority in regards to immigration should be to provide employed immigrants with legal status. . . 26 percent wants a plan to stop illegal immigration. . . "
Millennials are being attracted here - in Mesa and the State of Arizona - with strong and concerted campaigns for economic development.
Will the seismic change in the demographics for Millennials and Latins create major changes in local Mesa city and Arizona state politics > time will tell
The Times They are A' Changing . . .this is a powerful generational shift when readers consider the epic recall-election ousting Russell Pearce from public office for SB1070. That recall was spear-headed by charter school CEO Jerry Lewis, who has the same name as the better-known comedian, and has been recruited and endorsed immediately by the present mayor John Giles and the previous mayor Scott Smith at the same time he declared as a candidate to represent District 3.
Lewis graduated from Brigham Young University in 1982, a Latter-day Saint who served as a missionary in Hong Kong.He also served as a bishop and stake president in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Both Giles and Smith are Latter-Day Saints.
The findings in the opinion poll written about by Michael Orleaga were accompanied by the image to the right > with this caption:
Undocumented immigrants wait to be loaded onto an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), charter jet early on October 15, 2015 in Mesa, Arizona. The immigrants were to be flown to other states for follow-on ICE deportation flights to the Caribbean, Mexico and Central America. ICE builds deportation cases against thousands of undocumented immigrants, many of whom, they say, have criminal records. The number of ICE detentions and deportations has dropped in the last two years since some states adopted laws limiting how state law enforcement agencies cooperate with federal immigration authorities. (Photo : John Moore/Getty Images)
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