I think your post is consistent with Sen. Paul’s views. For some reason, as soon as a Republican reaches out to the people you’re describing, some conservatives automatically assign them to the RINO/Amnesty category and write them off.
Personally, I think Sen. Paul is on the right track. Like you, I think most HIspanics are here to work. However, unlike you, I don’t think we need to find a new path to citizenship for them. The path already exists. What we need to do is get the green card situation straightened out and simultaneously tighten up the borders.
If you do only one, but not the other, it’s self defeating. Policing the border becomes more difficult when those wanting to work here can’t do so legally, and you won’t get the green card situation straightened out without a policed border because people will continue to enter illegally.
I have ideas for carving out previously illegal workers from legal ones, but I am sure they would be undone by another Obama-like administration. From a human standpoint those that support illegal immigration also turn a blind eye on the immense human toll of exploitation, endangerment, and often death of these illegals.