Illegal immigration solution:
Look at the election Demographics. Our "Border" people cost us a TON of Hispanic Votes Nationwide, and gave the Dems a whole new base of Illegal Voters....
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Yes they did BUT if the Federal government had stood up and DONE ITS MANDATED JOB of protecting the borders of this country, it would never have been an issue. The borders would have been closed very easily, and the ILLEGAL FLOW of illegals and God knows what else, would have been ended.
The Federal government wastes over $100 BILLION per year to support illegal aliens, to say NOTHING of the state level. The cost to implement a complete border closure would be a fraction of that. Yes, it started way before Bush -- but Bush chose to do nothing, in fact, help and aid illegals by suppressing information flow from the Border Patrol about illegal crossing -- a matter of public record.
He remains Mexico's Manchurian Candidate. For that, he is most certainly to blame. Without question.
"BUT if the Federal government had stood up and DONE ITS MANDATED JOB"
Would a', could a', should a'...
Their here, Thier Queer... Oh wait....
Theier are 15-30 million of them now, and they aren't going anywhere, anytime soon, so we'll just have to deal with it, if we want to WIN...
The Border BS is going to subject us to at least 2, and possibly 10 years of absolute hell now...
Eagle is right on this one. Illegal immigration cost us votes all right but not those of illegal aliens(most of them don't vote!), the votes we lost were from disgruntled libertarians and conservatives who wanted the borders controlled. Add this to a lot of other wimpy behavior and dropping of conservative values and you spell failure.