Immigration: The Gang of Eight says it has — presto! — fixed the big border security holes in their must-be-passed-yesterday amnesty package. After the 1986 fiasco, skeptics won't settle for promises on paper.
The world will not come to an end if immigration reform with a so-called "path to citizenship" — i.e., phased-in amnesty for 11 million illegal aliens — doesn't happen before the 2014 congressional elections. A number of Republican politicians have been terrified by their political enemies in both politics and the media into swallowing the dubious notion that the Grand Old Party's long-term fortunes depend on an ethnic group totaling less than 9% of the electorate.
But that group — Hispanics — actually gave a much bigger share of votes to Democrats in the election that took place after the last time Republicans got behind a big amnesty, the Reagan-backed '86 immigration reform.
That fact should have taught the GOP a hard lesson: Democrats, the party of Big Government, always win when Republicans play on their turf by embracing the politics and policies of giving different groups favors. The most politically effective way of doing favors, after all, is through promised government handouts.
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