GP I was talking to our Salvadoran employee who just got her green card about the chaos at the Southern border. She said she was talking to one of our Dominican employees who also now has *her* green card, thanks to us.
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GP Both women are highly educated, fully bilingual English/Spanish, nice, and smart. They're also politically well to my left. They are *irate* Biden's letting people cheat a system that cost them (us, really) tens of thousands of dollars and at least 10 years of their lives.
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GP The Salvadoran and Dominican both agreed that it wasn't surprising in the least that a lot of heavily Hispanic, traditionally Democratic border counties went for Trump in the last election for a couple of reasons.
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GP First, they said there's a "we're here legally, pull up the ladder behind us" mentality among some of these folks. Second, they said being overrun with low skill illegal immigrants is overwhelming their communities and they are pissed off at Democrats for letting it continue.
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GP So, if my coworkers are to be believe, and they're likely more tuned into the issue than we gringos are, there's a massive opening for a *humane* but strict immigration reform package in the Hispanic Democratic community.
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GP I fully expect Republicans to sh*t the bed on this opportunity as they usually do with either really stupid and *unnecessarily* restrictive policies and/or *unnecessarily* nativist craziness. We're the gang that can't shoot straight.
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GP We have an opportunity to realign voting patterns among many Hispanics for a generation or more if we handle this thoughtfully, nimbly, and in collaboration with these communities. My guess is establishment Republicans don't even see the opportunity + will miss it altogether.
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GP Never bet against Republicans f*cking up a completely winnable issue.
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