It is common wisdom that the Democrats are the party for Hispanics, because liberals have more welcoming views on immigration and a greater support for a “path to citizenship”.
On the flip side, the Tea Party GOP has alienated Hispanics by throwing cold water on the Dreamers and with rhetoric that demands the total removal of millions of undocumented. Pull the string on any GOP politico and you will hear a plaint that the Obama administration is doing nothing to cleanse our shores of the mahogany masses.
But what’s the truth?
Obama soft on deportations. Hardly.
If you drop the politics, the President has been a far more effective executioner of the far-right’s immigration policy than any GOP holder of the office. The administration has set records on deportations – and not just the worst of the worst – while at the same time they are accused of being “soft” on illegal immigrants.
If the Tea Party GOP were to run commercials touting the truth of Obama’s deportation efforts they would succeed in peeling away Hispanics from the Democrats. Although, ironically, they would risk losing some of their core support. What is the party of bigotry to do?
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