Republicans who indicate Donald Trump as their favorite of the large pack pursuing the Republican Presidential nomination at this stage of the process are primarily indicating who is saying the loudest what they think the country’s priorities should be. That priority is border control and only sustainable immigration. Others who speak as definitively could do as well. There is also utter contempt for the manipulations and failures of Republican leadership to stop it NOW.
Establishment Republicans pursue a chimera that being aggressive in pursuing border integrity and the rule of law will cause elections to be lost, that legal voting Americans of Hispanic origin don’t recognize the problem of not enforcing the border and existing laws. Here are some articles dealing with recent polling and other analysis that indicate Republicans have more to lose by pandering or appearing to pander for such purposes.
Cliff Kincaid writing at Accuracy in Media Why They Can’t Stop Trump discusses several studies, editorials and policy papers based on polling referencing a building backlash by traditional Republican voters that could abandon the party for abandoning or failing on their concerns.
The Daily Caller has an article about recent polling that comports with our impression of the views of American citizens of Hispanic origin, generations previous.
Poll: Most Hispanic Voters Don’t Think A Path To Citizenship Is Solution (excerpt)
More than 60 percent of registered Hispanic voters do not think a pathway to citizenship for illegals would benefit the country, and most do not see it as the best way to solve the country’s immigration problems, a new poll shows.
Of the 62 percent who felt a pathway to citizenship for illegals would not benefit the country, 33 percent felt it would hurt the economy, 7 percent felt it would overly burden public schools and 10 percent felt it would create public safety issues, the McKeon & Associates Wednesday poll found.
“The economy is still the issue,” Michael McKeon told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “When 33 percent think immigration will hurt the economy, that’s what’s on their mind.”
Establishment Republicans claim allegiance to practical politics in order to win elections. In fact they are incredibly bad at it. The studies mentioned above are must reading as to why conservatives and the Republican rank and file have a better understanding of the dynamics and what is at stake in the immigration issue. There is nothing winning about the Republican establishment approach to the immigration issue. R Mall
