“Integration Potential of California’s Immigrants and Their Children: New Estimates of Potential New Voters at the State, County, and Legislative District Levels” is our site of the day

A new study commissioned by the California Immigrant Integration Initiative of Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees, based in Sebastopol, California, has major implications for our state’s future and our politics and pubilc policy.

“Integration Potential of California’s Immigrants and Their Children: New Estimates of Potential New Voters at the State, County, and Legislative District Levels” is a must read.

Here are just a few of the findings from this 26 page report:

• 7.7 million immigrants and their young-adult children constitute 29 percent of all potential Californian voters in 2012.

• Immigrants and their children potentially comprise a large portion of voters in both Democratic and Republican districts. Far from being confined to state Senate and Assembly districts held by Democrats, these potential voters could exceed 20 percent of all voters in Republican districts in both houses of the state legislature.

• California is the leading destination for immigrants to the United States, receiving morethan 325,000 new arrivals each year.

• The immigrant population overall exceeds 9.9 million persons and represents 27.2 percent of all residents in the state.

• 6.5 million immigrants in California are either naturalized or eligible to naturalize. California is home to 4.2 million naturalized adults and 2.3 million legal immigrants eligible to naturalize.

• Immigrants from Mexico and Asia constitute the largest share of naturalization eligible immigrants. More than 900,000 legal Mexican immigrants in California are eligible to naturalize. Nearly 800,000 Asian immigrants are eligible to naturalize.

• 1.2 million children of immigrants will soon be eligible to vote. Half of Californian children aged 12 and over are children of immigrants.

• Eighty-four percent of California’s children of immigrants are U.S.-born citizens. These new voters need only register to vote to participate in the electoral process.

• Latinos comprise two-thirds of the citizen children of immigrants who will turn 18 by the 2012 elections.

• Nearly all Asian children in California aged 12-17 years (93 percent) have an immigrant parent.

There are maps and breakdowns by counties. This report is already being talked about and there are articles in the California press on it. Go to the original source and get all the details.