The GOP Rush to Immigration Reform

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Sen. Rubio Discusses His Immigration Principles on “The Mark Levin Show “

All of  potential 2016 GOP Presidential candidates are rushing out their plan to provide comprehensive immigration reform.

Senator Marco Rubio has one and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush has a post today in the Wall Street Journal and is working on a book to be released in March.

Why?

Cynically, you could say in order to capture the growing Hispanic vote from the Democrats (Obama) who won over 70 per cent last November. You could also say in order to co-opt President Obama and his fellow Democrats who wish to “legalize” which equals citizenship and voting and permanently capture millions of Asian and Hispanic votes in future elections.

But, there really is NO rush for Republicans.

Let’s face it, the GOP brand does not do well at the polls with African-Americans, Asians or Hispanics. This is not a recent demographic fact. Even President Reagan did not do that great with these groups. Neither did the senior Bush. W did some what better, but was a disaster for the GOP brand.

A thorough review of immigration policy is fine.

Increasing skill-based immigration for certain workers, while increasing educationally opportunities for native born Americans is OK.

Implementing an employer based E-Verify enforcement of work documents is necessary, but will take some time.

Mexican border security needs to be further tightened, especially with regards to Mexican and Central American drug cartels.

But, the rest is just political pandering which will NOT benefit conservatives, nor the GOP in 2016 or anytime before.

Time for the discussion, but not the time to make a major immigration policy change. The GOP controlled House should exert its check on the Obama Administration and immigration amnesty prone GOP Senators.