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Prolly because they want their fruit and veggies picked and lawns mowed.
So, basically, even a majority of Republicans are sane on this issue. Explain to me again why we are allowing a minority of a minority to drive policy on this issue?
Because they control Republican primaries
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Because immigration reform will not be the deciding issue for the 72% when choosing a candidate to vote for; and many of them won’t vote anyway, certainly not consistently in every election. However, the issue will be very important to the 26% when choosing a candidate, and a higher %age of them do vote consistently in every election.
A few decades ago we had a big amnesty, and immediately started acquiring a new batch of illegals. So why should we believe this time will be different? Any adult who broke immigration law to sneak into this country should feel lucky to just get deported – they should do jail time and then be deported. Our immigration policy is making the very fabric of laws in this country into a joke; they’re not laws, they’re just suggestions; no consequences for breaking them what so ever.
What we need is a reform in our laws to make it possible for those people who want to come here and work and be productive to do so legally. The current system makes legal immigration impossible for more than a tiny trickle of people. It’s the equivalent of what we would have if there was a federal law capping the speed on interstate highways at 25mph. It would be insane, and no-one would comply.
And the people you disparage as “illegals” are overwhelmingly law-abiding apart from the immigration violation, and insanely hard-working. I want them as neighbors and taxpayers.
Yes, but remember – this is the number 1 issue for many, many Hispanic voters, and a lot of elections will turn on their votes.