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Immigration: Licenses, Borders, Votes and TRUTH

17 November, 2007 (12:20) | GOP, Republicans, election, immigration, opinion, politics | By: Catherine Morgan

This is a post from Frustrated Incorporated

Now, there’s so much media conventional wisdom that’s wrong, and one of the things that was forever wrong during the amnesty bill debate was, from the Republican side, they said, “We have got to show these people that we care about them and they’re the backbone of America because we’ve gotta get these votes. We’re alienating these Hispanics and it’s not going to be good.

That’s what the whole thing was about, anyway: the pursuit of votes by both parties. So the conventional wisdom almost always is wrong, and this story yesterday gave evidence of that, of how these people came out and said, “We’re voting Republican.“ They resent all the illegals and all of the efforts to make them legal without having to go through the process that the people who have gone through it have had to endure.

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