"and others who are here by due process" is tacit approval of our catch and release policies and consideration for our political persecution exceptions.
"and support federal efforts to stem it." is unequivocal support of Bush's policies.
Two things are apparent:
1)The CAGOP is a stepchild of the RNC with regard to immigration.
2) The CAGOP, while willing to attack and frustrate California's #1 financial enemy, the California legislative majority, is unwilling to even meaningfully address the #2 enemy, the legacy of illegal immigration.
The major problem with that stance and the fatal flaw in their platform, both for the Republican Party and for California, is that in a short amount of time the legacy of illegal immigration will become California's legislative majority.
Judging by today's standards, the corruption of this legacy will bode ill for the state. Currently, the majority leader of the Assembly, the Lt. Governor and the mayor of Los Angeles are prime examples of the legacy of illegal immigration run amuck. A butcher and two, immigrant labor leaders ready to share the spoils of California's wealth and welcome their cultural compatriots to the feast.
I'm in agreement. If that's the policy of the CAGOP then they're the problem, not the solution.
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What also struck me was the absence of any comments relative to illegal immigration enforcement (or at least minimizing the current incentives).
This was the stated platform under the category "Federalism"
The Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." The CRP supports the President's efforts to abide by these clear constraints on federal power and reverse the federal encroachment upon the powers and rights reserved and delegated to the States and the people. We favor state determination, without federal mandates or subsidies, on all matters consistent with the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights.