In Congress, A Harder Line On Illegal Immigrants

NPR ^ | 12-26-2010 | AP

[radpolis]

In a matter of weeks, Congress will go from trying to help young, illegal immigrants become legal to debating whether children born to parents who are in the country illegally should continue to enjoy automatic U.S. citizenship.

Such a hardened approach — and the rhetoric certain to accompany it — should resonate with the GOP faithful who helped swing the House in Republicans' favor. But it also could further hurt the GOP in its endeavor to grab a large enough share of the growing Latino vote to win the White House and the Senate majority in 2012.

Legislation to test interpretations of the 14th Amendment as granting citizenship to children of illegal immigrants will emerge early next session. That is likely to be followed by attempts to force employers to use a still-developing web system, dubbed E-Verify, to check that all of their employees are in the U.S. legally.

[okie01]

I think there is a distinction between the average American and the party and media elites.

It's not so much Republican vs Democrat anymore. It's not even conservative vs liberal.

It's Washington vs The Rest Of Us.

[okie01]

I actually believe that a hard line approach is politically better for the GOP than a pandering, supplicating approach, despite what the liberal propagandists in the media spew on a regular basis about the GOP losing Hispanics over the illegal issue.

Certain polls are rarely reported -- because the facts don't fit the liberal template.

One group that's ignored is polls of legal Hispanics -- who either jumped through all the immigration hoops or are natural-born citizens, just like their parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, and so on.

As a group, legal Hispanics are anti-illegal alien -- roughly 60-35, almost two-to-one.

The media doesn't want that to be so, so they ignore it. And even claim that the trend is otherwise. In other words, they lie. Flat out lie.

Here in Texas, my personal acquaintences are probably four-to-one against illegal aliens. And several prominent Texas Hispanic Democrat leaders recently converted to the Republican Party -- partly because of the Democrat Party's pig-headedness on this subject.

But it also could further hurt the GOP in its endeavor to grab a large enough share of the growing Latino vote to win the White House and the Senate majority in 2012.

The GOP would be well-advised not to believe this propaganda-driven bullcrap from NPR.