Re: Peggy Noonan on Imigration
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Might be part of it too. Might also be why the Dems haven't hit harder on the issue, as they obviously can't afford to alienate any group of voters, their current fortunes being bad enough as it is. But I had heard that Hillary was going to try to run conservative on illegal immigration. Were Bush up for reelection, it might be poliltically smart to do so. But the next Republican candidate, one would think, will be more hardline on illegal immigration than Bush.
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I doubt it. If you are tough on illegal immigration, it is implied that you are driven by racism or xenophobia. I think this is more of a driving factor than the pressures from business interests.
I think this is one of those issues that the Democrats will have to deal with. It took Nixon to go to China, because if a Dem did it, Nixon would have called him red. It took a Dem to overhaul welfare, because if a Rep president signed that, it would have been said that he was starving the poor.
I think illegal immigration is one of these types of issues.
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