I think there should be minor changes in the rhetoric of some of our spokesman, perhaps including Tancredo, along the lines you suggest. It's conceivable that these would be of major help to us politically, but I'm not sure. I'm more concerned about Republican elected officials not doing or saying enough about the problem, less worried about a few who might say the wrong thing now and then.
I agree with what you are saying. There was alot more that could have been done to educate people about the open borders situation without bashing a huge chunk of our population's culture and using language of yesteryear. A good chunk of the Hispanic population in Texas subsribe to conservative ideas and the more educated ones don't automatcially vote the Rat party line. Again, when you here a white guys say "send them back." It is no different than if some white guy in the south put all of the sudden put a "White's only" sign on his business.
If I was in charge of the strategy, it would have focused on the criminal gangs coming accross and causing havoic in our cities. It would have focused on some of the items that have been found on ranch land in Arabic and the rumors of Arab men trying to sneak into this country through the border. And It would have been more focus on the business that hire and yes, exploit some of these people by paying them next to nothing. The same goals of the Tancredo's of this world could have been accomplshed by focusing almost exclusively on the securty angle, IMO.
And from what I gather, most rank and file Hispanics would be for it to. They don't like the idea of Arabs coming through Mexico down here. The certainly don't like MS-13 raming amongest them. Likewise they don't like see human exploitation.