Heck with immigration reform. If Republicans want to pick up future voters, then they should concentrate on trying to improve the 47 percent high school graduation rate in Buffalo, N.Y.

Buffalo is one example of many U.S. cities that graduated less than half its students last year — Detroit, Denver, and Los Angeles all struggle with near 50 percent graduation rates, according to a report by the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center. Nationally, only seven of 10 ninth graders today will get high school diplomas.