[ckilmer]

the admin pubbies don't want to do anything to offend mexican voters before the next election. they want to raise the number of Mexican Americans voting republican in the next election.

don't know if soft border policies will do the pubbies any good. it hasn't in the past.

the governor of california is currently on the skids not because of anything has or has not done vis a vis the border. so the admin pubbies think they have a shot at california in the next election.

[MrLeRoy]

they want to raise the number of Mexican Americans voting republican in the next election.

But by allowing in more Mexicans, they may be raising the number of Mexican Americans voting Dem even more. Open borders is bad policy and very possibly (for the GOP) bad politics.

[cyncooper]

See #33.

You are WRONG.

[supercat]

the admin pubbies don't want to do anything to offend mexican voters before the next election. they want to raise the number of Mexican Americans voting republican in the next election.

My impression is that many of those who have gone through all the paperwork to immigrate legally are annoyed at the number of people who expect the same rewards without going through it. The only people who would be really annoyed at a crackdown on illegal immigrants would be (1) the illegal immigrants, to the extent that they vote; and (2) Democrats who would lose the illegal immigrants' votes.

Of course, the real problem is the illegal immigrants' voting in the first place. Is there nothing the Republicans can do to stop that?