Once more immigration: Bush bows to xenophobia

Good for you W. You won't have the Latino vote that you badly needed for your abortion and gay marriage bans.

By Max J. Castro, Progreso Weekly

Caught between the rock of economic and demographic reality (demand for immigrant labor, the aging of the U.S. population, a sharp increase in Latino voters) and the hard place of widespread xenophobia in the Republican Party, George W. Bush showed his hand. Torn between selling his party to the growing Latino electorate and responding to fierce anti-immigration sentiment among hard core Republicans, Bush made his choice: He went with the immigration hardliners.

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