a Hispanic audience, who he expects will have personal connections to illegal immigrants
This is pretty much the core thing that's wrong with the current Administration's weird illegal-immigrant schizophrenia. Sucking up to illegal immigrants does not endear one to the existing, legally immigrated Hispanic population. My Mom and Dad don't have patience for line-jumpers -- they went through the process, and they expect anyone else who wants to come here to go through the process too. Amnesties and such only serve to alienate and annoy them -- and middle-aged Latinos tend to be socially quite conservative as well as entrepreneurial, making them a pretty natural Republican constituency.
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Date: 2006-06-14 07:30 pm (UTC)This is pretty much the core thing that's wrong with the current Administration's weird illegal-immigrant schizophrenia. Sucking up to illegal immigrants does not endear one to the existing, legally immigrated Hispanic population. My Mom and Dad don't have patience for line-jumpers -- they went through the process, and they expect anyone else who wants to come here to go through the process too. Amnesties and such only serve to alienate and annoy them -- and middle-aged Latinos tend to be socially quite conservative as well as entrepreneurial, making them a pretty natural Republican constituency.