re: #84 lostlakehiker

Not even any purely selfish reason? What fraction of the new citizens would vote Democrat?

Not even a crass political calculation: you torpedo my tax bill, going back on the negotiated deal, and this dies too?

The latino population is going to grow in the US one way or another.

Better for the Republicans to allow that growth to happen and win a noticeable percent of it than to try and slow it down and get virtually none of it in the process.

As Micheal Steele himself would say, right now the GOP is the cow on the train tracks…