The obvious fix is simply to enforce the law. Granting the 30 million illegals here any kind of legal status will inevitably lead to citizenship—and for governments as bad and as leftist as are the norm in Latin America.
That is national suicide and we have no moral obligation to inflict that upon ourselves.
Granting legal status does not have to lead to citizenship. In fact, why shouldn’t Canadians be able to work here, as well as Mexicans and people from South America? And why shouldn’t we be able to work in Canada or Mexico or South America with green cards or visas of our own? Open your mind a little. Think libery and the rule of law, not restrictions and isolationism.
As for HIspanics leaning left, if anything the ones coming here to work who want to stay are as likely to be conservative as liberal, provided the GOP isn’t filled with people who think and write like you do.
But to vote they’d have to become citizens first. There’s no need to write the law legalizing their presence here to also include a certain path to citizenship. In fact, because they came here illegally, they should go to the end of the line, if they’re permitted to apply at all.
Again, my point is that Ryan is correct in wanting to tackle the immigration issue one step at a time. Legalization, amnesty, and citizenship are three separate issues, and border control is yet another. Tackling them all at one time will result in another Obamacare-type mess, as the Senate bill illustrates.