I am sick of this pandering. There is significant portion of the Hispanic population who oppose illegal immigration. The GOP just needs to draw its current voting block and draw a bigger chunk of these level-headed Hispanics and they can win the next few election cycles. Blacks are lost to the Republicans for at least a decade or more. If the repubs go to far in this pandering, they will lose a big chunk of their base and they will lose for years to come.
True, unfortunately most of them also want free stuff so they'll vote Democrat anyway.
The problem is that Hispanic's, particularly from Mexico, are a natural leftist constituency. They voted socialist in Mexico and vote the same way here in the US. In that regard they are no different than liberals fleeing failed blue states, yet they vote the same way (Democrat) in their new red state homes. These people are like locusts.
Sadly, many people simply never make a connection between their voting for leftist candidates and the economic failure that followers. You'd think they'd learn but most don't - and that is because voting tends to be more of a generational thing than it is based on cause and effect. Once someone has a leftist, collectivist mindset, there is usually little chance to change their mind. That means the rapidly growing Hispanic demographic is probably going to continue to vote left for a least another generation - and probably for generations to come.