ABSTRACT
In the United States today more than one in ten Americans are immigrants. When the children of immigrants are included, both documented and undocumented, that proportion increases to 20 percent foreign-born or second-generation Americans. Tens of millions of immigrants have arrived in the United States over the last decade, and scholars estimate that since 1995 alone, more than twenty million people have become potential voters (Fix, Passel, and Suche 2003). Th ese numbers include those who are already naturalized U.S. citizens and those who will soon become eligible to become citizens.
