Apparently reading comprehension was never taught to the gang:
WBEZ-FM is reporting today that Illinois Republicans are no longer focused on illegal immigration because GOP candidates fear electoral reprisals from the legal and illegal immigrant populations now residing in Illinois.
Joshua Hoyt of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR) – a taxpayer-funded organization that’s suspected of engaging in ACORN-like, quasi-criminal voter registration here in Illinois – happens to agree. He admits that the “illegal immigrants” he accuses Congressional candidate Jim Oberweis of bashing are “going to turn out in record numbers and vote against him.”
Well, at least they admit it.
But what does Joshua actually say:
HOYT: The Republicans in northern Illinois are finally starting to learn how to count.
That’s Joshua Hoyt of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. The coalition has been coordinating citizenship, voter-registration and get-out-the-vote drives in immigrant neighborhoods across the Chicago area. A new report by the coalition says Illinois now has more than three-quarters of a million foreign-born citizens and that most live in Chicago’s suburbs. Hoyt says nearly one of every eight registered voters in Kane County is now Latino.
HOYT: What that means is that when Jim Oberweis flies over Soldier Field in a helicopter bashing illegal immigrants and it’s interpreted by the Mexican community that he’s bashing them, they’re going to turn out in record numbers and vote against him.
You might disagree with Hoyt or with those in the Mexican community, but he’s not suggesting illegal immigrants are going to vote. He’s suggesting Americans of Mexican descent are going to vote and vote in huge numbers.