RE: How about doing whats right for a change, and not simply taking the path of least resistance?
It's not just the politicians. Politicians are salesmen. They'll adapt their sales pitch to match the customer (the voter). Not their fault. It's just the way it works.
The customer with the most influence are those in the 45-65 demo, who went to school during the height and post-mort of the Civil Rights movement. This generation was taught that color is irrelevant. All people are equal.
You cannot roll that back. It was a moral decision by the leaders of the day to change the education system to push the "blue eyes/brown eyes" race doesn't matter meme.
I am not saying the above is wrong. In fact, it is morally correct. However, the 3rd rail of race politics runs right through these learned sensibilities, and they are easily manipulated. The generations afterwards are even more soaked in those post-Civil Rights ideals. It's not practical.
As long as economic times are good, no one wants to fight that fight of changing what I mentioned above. When economic times get tough, we start looking around for people to blame. And that's where we are right now.
So, changing immigration policy to be discriminatory in favor of white Europeans really is a 3rd rail. How are you going to sell that to the masses, as described above. Or did I describe it accurately?
So I'm not really sure wher you're coming from.
And speaking of legal immigration, btw, and as long as America isn’t granting visas solely based upon actual need of the country, what would be wrong with granting visas in proportion to the ethnic mix of the country as it is? I don’t think it would be too hard to convince the majority of Americans the madness of the current policy of transplanting entire villages of Somalians to Minnesota.