The article was a good try. But note it said "give them a stake" in the country. Sort of hollow when the party's platform is to deport familes of people here legally, and people who have worked here for years but are here illegally. And, it says get them to be savers rather than sending money home. Well, yeah, but if a guy's wife and kids are in Mexico ....
Someone needs to break the back on the idea that one must give greater loyalty to a co-ethnic than to a fellow citizen. Breaking the back of this odious idea, unfortunately, comes at a cost for those who wish to champion the notion that one should owe one's highest loyalty to America rather than to foreigners.
Well, when the laws were intentionally drawn BY BOTH PARTIES so as to encourage illegal immigration and cheap labor, that argument isn't going to go anywhere. It's "come on in cheap Mexican, and now listen here bud it's "mericans first." Again, lots of luck in 16 with that one. And Jeb didn't do too well on the stump today.
But, again, I think the article was ... something. If the gop could get over the sly, and racist, attempts to hide the fact that apparently a minority in the House hold the speaker hostage to getting a real deal that addressed "the border" and legalizing workers we really need, the party could appeal to hispanics, imo. There are gopers, not necessarily in the TPM, and often at the state level, who want to fund public schools esp if there is some magnet or charter concept to let parents get their kids into better schools. The cost of a four year university, even a public one, is beyond most lower income workers. But, many gopers support community colleges and even efforts to bring education online.
I don't think social issues or promoting "assimilation" policies says much. It's sort of insulting to say one party or another is more likely to keep my kid's marriage together. I doubt anyone other than a blind partisan sees much difference. I don't think there's any great desire outside the left elite to continue bilingual education ... outside the reality that you have to educate a kid in a language he understands. Teach em English, but don't forget math.
The gop pretty much shot itself in the foot not providing an alternative to Obamacare. Similarly, suggesting opposing privatizing social security is akin willfully embracing govt dependence is ... empty rhetoric that will not win elections.
Bottom line, the gop has to sell itself as the party of entry into the middle class and not the tool of the 1%. The article is correct to the extent it is saying Hispanics are no different from whites.
