No solution is perfect. If they're working, that means they probably "get it." Even Romney got 27% of the Latino vote. What makes you think all Latinos are going to have their hands out, demanding stuff from us?
It appears to me that of the legal Latinos, as well as the illegals who are actually emulating the legal Latinos by getting jobs, obeying the law and trying to assimilate, we already have a lock on about 25% of them. Democrats also have a lock on about 25% of them. The other 50% are up for grabs.
We have to treat them fairly, and we have to make sure they KNOW we're going to treat them fairly. We also have to make sure they KNOW that the Democrats have been lying to them, and bankrupting the country; and that the Republican way creates jobs for everybody.
If we can do that, and if we can deport the criminals who have been preying on the legal Latino community, we'll get 50% of the Latino vote very easily. Probably more. And that would mean the exact opposite of what I've been warning about: rather than the Republican Party being finished, it would be the Democratic Party that's finished. Rather than Bush being the last Republican president of our lifetimes, Obama could be the last Democratic president of our lifetimes.
All we have to do is start communicating to the legal Latino population in their language, countering the lies of Democratic Party operatives with the truth, and effectively removing the predatory illegal immigrants from their communities with prison sentences and deportations.
In that fantasy world Obama never got elected.
Plenty of people ‘work’ and vote Dem. Most people who voted for Obama had jobs.
What Hispanics ‘get’ is that Republicans offer tax cuts for (white) billionaires and Democrats offer THEM all sorts of $$$$ programs to help their poor kids, free school breakfasts, lunches, after school programs, food stamps. Obama-care/medicaid, tax credits, preschoool head start, minimum wage increaeses, ....its endless
They also ‘get’ that their relatives in Medico are not going to get those same bennes there, and 'they get' that Dems here tell them that they can just vote themselves a better life. They 'get' that Obama cares for them and their families because he offers $$$$
When the majority of Hispanics turn against gub redistribution then I will consider 'pathway'