“It’s really hard to get people to listen to you on economic growth, on tax rates, on health care if they think you want to deport their grandmother,” Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., told National Journal’s Major Garrett just weeks after more than 70 percent of Latino voters helped re-elect President Obama. “I mean, it’s very difficult to get people to listen to anything else you are saying.”

Rubio is right: Republicans are never going to win a competitive portion of the Latino, or Asian, vote as long as their stated policy on immigration is that sizable portions of those populations must be deported (or, in Mitt Romney’s words, that they must “self-deport”).

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