[ambrose]

The reason why is quite simple:

Big Business Republicans want illegals for cheap labor


Democrats want new voters.

[kingu]

Big Business Republicans want illegals for cheap labor

Maybe your milage is different than mine, but I don't know of a lot of big companies that want illegals. Immigrants they want, but illegals are too much of a long term liability. I'd wager that small business employs illegals at a rate of at least twenty times as much as big business.

Democrats want new voters.

But Hispanics aren't flocking to the Democrats in numbers they want, and each generation seems to drift farther from them. If they're really interested in new voters, I'd target reducing abortions among blacks, since that's an ethnic group that really seems to stick with them. Heck, ten years from now, I'm not sure who else is going to be in the party anymore.