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Honestly Lyle I agree with Kirk on this one. The GOP was shortsighted to ever go in another direction. They can provide alternative methods to amnesty but anything else is a loser for them.
I'm saying they attempted that before and McCain & Graham's bill was stopped....by who? By the American people who crashed phone systems clling in to report their anger at it....but hey whatever you guys say
Exactly. The GOP is between a rock and a hard place. They know they have to appeal to Hispanics and other groups, and an amnesty will just be the start of that and won't really help the GOP's situation by itself, but in appealing to minorities they're going to infuriate their own base. Most of the base will stay with them but a significant minority will just say fuck all y'all and not vote anymore.

This is the result of decades of appealing to the vast majority by bashing minorities. Now that the majority isn't so vast their previous tactics are coming back to bite them.