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But to win, maybe you have to bring the fight to middle class and upper middle class liberals in blue states. Maybe white progressive Democrats in Minnesota have to fear ICE. Maybe that’s what it takes.
I'm sympathetic to that take, but until Republicans so much as sniff toward taking on the business lobby I will assume that they are not serious about immigration restriction and remain the anarcho-capitalist liberals that were Reagan through Romney concerning immigration.
Remember: Business owners are the original open-borders lobby, always have been and always will be. Fealty to capital is not governance but failure to govern and an invitation to be defeated by anyone who values things other than money. One would think that the GOP would've learned from the last century but they did not and will not.
One reason to be charitable to republicans is that they do not actually wish for the foreign labour to have any rights at the expense of locals at all. The illegal worker is a resource to be exploited and discarded, not a soul deserving care and nurturing and resources. Any illegal on a chicken farm must be well behaved because his own peers will enforce the law to keep the gravy train going. For blues illegals breaking the law is the incentive to give even more resources as restitution.
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