Hispanics sour on Obama as young illegals surge across border

What should Republican lawmakers do about immigration? That’s been a simmering source of controversy ever since George W. Bush‘s push for so-called comprehensive immigration legislation, with legalization and enforcement provisions, in 2006.

Most liberals and many economic conservatives argued that support for such legislation was a political imperative for Republicans. Otherwise they would continue to lose Hispanic voters, an inevitably increasing segment of the electorate, by 2-1 margins.