re: #3 Dark_Falcon

Republicans shouldn’t respond much to this and should keep any response low-key. Part of the strategy of this sort of action is to get conservatives to yell about it then use that yelling to paint the GOP as racist. The GOP should resist the trap. Let folks like Lou Dobbs carry the can on this one and don’t engage.

More. Republicans should welcome this move. While we don’t want an influx of people who have little education, don’t speak our language, and don’t share our culture, the people who fit the criteria announced are not anything like that. They do speak our language, they do have an education, and so on. Although their papers do not say so, they are effectively Americans already.

Conservatives may not believe in trying to take care of everybody, unless they’re particularly devout Christians and not given to thinking much about feasibility. But conservatives traditionally believe in taking care of our own. These people, papers or not, are ours. They are of us. We raised them. We trained them. And now they’re ready, willing, and able to return the favor. Deporting them is nuts.