The GOP and immigration

last updated 8 January 2015

What happened

Leading Republican presidential candidates focused weekend speeches on illegal immigration, as polls indicated that GOP voters in early-voting New Hampshire and Iowa called it the second most important issue of the campaign after Iraq. (AP via Google)

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All the GOP front-runners—Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee—are “convinced that tough talk on immigration, however irrational, is necessary to win the nomination,” said Jason L. Riley in The Wall Street Journal. But offering more of the same “bad policies” that created this mess will only “foster resentment” among the fast-growing Hispanic voting bloc. A better option is putting forward “proposals that will bring immigration laws in line with the labor demands of our expanding economy.”

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