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Posted 02/20/09 at 04:45pm

The Great GOP Immigration Battle: Mass-Deportation vs. Political Survival

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We busted out the popcorn last week and watched the battle raging over at the National Review Online -- for nothing less than the future of the Republican Party. 

The back-and-forth was mainly between Richard Nadler, who argues that Republicans need to rethink the politics of mass-deportation to remain viable, and his five critics:  Glynn Custred, John Fonte, Mark Krikorian, Heather Mac Donald, and Rep. Lamar Smith, who we already wrote about this week.

Well, yesterday the American Spectator added this to the debate:

Conservatives are thus caught between a rock and a hard place. If Nadler is right, and I think he is, immigration enforcement has the potential to alienate the country's fastest-growing demographic group and push it to the left.

In other words: enforcement-only immigration policy, focusing mainly on the mass-deportation of Latino voters' friends and family members, is probably a politically risky venture for a Party that's struggling to stop bleeding Latino voters.

The article continues:

But if the restrictionists are right, and I think they are, failure to enact sound immigration policies that better integrate newcomers will also have the effect of pushing the country to the left. It's not an easy dilemma to resolve.

First, it would help to realize that the restrictionists are not advocating for the "better integration of newcomers." They are advocating the mass deportation of 12 million hard-working immigrants, but continue trying to mask their agenda, instead claiming to be advocates for lower immigration levels, as conservative analyst Richard Nadler so clearly articulated.

Ramesh Ponnuru, a Senior Editor at the National Review Online, weighed in on the National Review's  "great immigration dust-up" this way:

The critics mostly battled straw men and refused to acknowledge that opposition to comprehensive immigration reform incurs any political cost at all.

That's right. But it seems that this message is finally breaking through and that the debate is turning from whether mass-deportation policies are politically costly to whether Republicans should still pursue them, despite the fact that they are.

One of the more humorous statements in the Spectator read:

Almost nobody of consequence advocates mass deportation.

Tell that to Richard Nadler.  In "A Costly Debate: Memo to the restrictionists: Mass deportation is a deal breaker," he writes:

So I'll restate my thesis. If conservative Republicans continue to advocate the mass removal of resident illegals, our candidates will lose Hispanic vote share - to the point where our performance among Hispanics mirrors that among African Americans.

The debate can be summed up as "Mass-Deportation" vs. "GOP Political Survival," and it's far from over.

Comments

it is questionable what is more expensive - deportation or integration. in the long run integration surely pays back its cost. somebody has to care for weak and vulnerable, thank you for helping to do so

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