re: #61 Bagua

With a minimum of 12 million illegal aliens in country, it’s not really a case of “xenophobia” and “isolationist tendencies” its a real issue.

Legitimate concerns about illegal immigration aren’t at all the same as playing up and pandering to xenophobia.

We can expect the legitimate concerns to be raised, along with a whole lot of xenophobic ones, for the emotional draw. The xenophobia will probably also render rational discussion of the real problems with illegal immigration impossible.
And the Latino community members who are citizens and vote are going to remember it. Shortterm gain for longterm alienation (so to speak) of what will soon be an essential voting bloc in the US.