I think these business leaders have looked at our demographic situation and realized that they are slowly getting desperate for more CUSTOMERS.
“I’ve often wondered about the GOP’s history of aligning with the interests of business owners with their desire for cheap labor (usually fulfilled by legal/illegal aliens).”
In the US hiring illegals gave businesses a huge advantage over those that played by the rules. It also CRUSHED the unions, which used to be able to bring our economy to its knees, but now only exist to forcibly extract money from people to fund Democrats.
I think the reason they didn’t look at the long-term harm it was doing to the country is because they REALLY BELIEVED that all men were created equal, and once they lived the American Dream, they would be no different than European immigrants. Well, that could have been true (and there is some evidence of that, where assimilation did take place), but the Democrats were allowed to stop that in its tracks...using methods like Bilingual Education (thereby preventing Hispanics from becoming fluent in English), and other methods of victimology.
So, we got played. All we had to do was change a few laws to get rid of unions, and businesses in the US would have been able to hire Americans and we’d be a different country now...far different. We’d be a country with a future.
Since 1989 the main purpose o the GOP has been to block the citizens from stopping the illegal alien inundation.
The goal has always been a one party state.
It was the only way to steal the country from the citizens.
We would not vote to give up our sovereignty and subsume our country to the UN in a New World Order so they are importing people who will.