GOP Will Lose In 2016 Without Sensible Immigration Reform
Article CAIRCO note:
A comparison of candidates' positions on immigration and amnesty
Article publisher:
Daily Caller
Article date:
10 May 2015
Article category:
National News
Medium
Article Body:
...A lot of clear-headed Republicans have a strong dislike for identity-group politics. Me too. Instead, I prefer a program of economic growth, strong national defense, deregulation, low flat-tax-rate reform, free trade, and sound money to unleash American prosperity and bolster national security. If this positive message is sold — to everyone and all groups — it will work politically.
But unfortunately, the Republican desire for immigration reform — and inclusive outreach in general — has splintered...
Making matters tougher for the GOP, Hillary Clinton has come out with a very strong, ultra-liberal immigration policy. It emphasizes a path to citizenship and charges that Republicans will never make immigrants more than “second class” Americans. She would include illegals, the parents of illegals, the 11 million [to 38 million illegal alien] undocumented workers, and [illegal alien] immigrants who have already been deported. She might even go farther than Obama with executive actions...
A recent Wall Street Journal story notes that former Florida governor Jeb Bush and Senator Marco Rubio favor a path to citizenship, but have stepped back to offer legal status. Governor Scott Walker, who was for a pathway to citizenship a few years ago, has shifted to a vague notion of legal-immigration reform that will do no harm to native-born workers and their wages. Senator Ted Cruz is unsure about legal status. Former governors Rick Perry and Mike Huckabee talk about tightening border security without any details on the rest of the problem...
Left unsolved are the H-1B visas for the high-tech brainiacs, visas for foreign students who are forced to leave the U.S. after going to our great universities, some kind of guest-worker program for the seasonal needs of farm and nonfarm employers, making the e-verify program mandatory, and granting portability.
The GOP should also favor legal status for undocumented workers who have no criminal record and pay their taxes. And Marco Rubio is right: “Every nation needs a unifying language; our unifying language is English.”...
...Republican candidates better getting moving. Hillary has fired an immigration shot across the bow...
CAIRCO Notes
It's pretty clear that the Democratic party will not be the party to secure America's borders and return jobs to hard-working Americans. But the Republican party may not be doing so, either. Especially if they adhere to recommendations like those of the article author who say the GOP should favor amnesty for illegal aliens ("legal status for undocumented workers").