Very, very smart move for the GOP. We can win the next election if we become the Latino Party. And by that, I do not mean amnesty. I mean an equal partnership between Anglos and LEGAL Latinos.
Extremely dumb move. The vast majority of illegal immigrants will NEVER vote for a Conservative, much less a Republican.
The RATS know quite clearly they will checkmate our Republic with Amnesty. Rubio is moving ahead with his so called immigration plan, knowing quite well it will result if full and absolute amnesty. He is trying to play the angle of "secure borders, blah blah blah" to fool conservatives while at the same time spouting out to the illegals, hoping to win their votes -- He will fail miserably.
Rubio's Conservatism can never match Reagan's, except in rhetoric.
Rubio will be as big a disappointment as the Bushes.
In support of your notion, are you aware that two separate polls of legal Hispanics revealed a 2-to-1 majority against amnesty? About 60/32, as I recall.
And why not? Many legal Hispanics are of families that have been American for hundreds of years. Or they are of families which did it the hard way, the right way -- immigrated legally and were naturalized.
It is the La Raza activist crew that is promoting amnesty for illegals -- not the Americans of Hispanic descent.
The GOP only gets abouut 30% of the Hispanic vote. The way things are, there's no telling what percentage of that vote is by illegals. And there is a virtual certainty that every one of the GOP's Hispanic votes is coming from an anti-amnesty legal Hispanic.
Therefore, should the Republicans jump on the amnesty bandwagon, risk losing every damn Hispanic vote they're getting now!
Unfortunately for you, it means amnesty for Marco Rubio. It appears the tone of his "Spanish language" response will be Dem-lite rather than articulating a conservative vision. I take this as a further sign that America and western civilization is rotting from the inside. I wish I could be optimistic.