Despite evidence of damage to the GOP from the anti-immigrant stance many of its members took in the run-up to the 2006 election the presidential candidates are taking the irrational hardline nativist stance against immigration policy.
As mayor of NYC Giuliani is reported to have been supportive of both documented and undocumented immigrants, however his views now that he is competing on a national stage rather than the very diverse NYC stage, have taken a turn to the right.
With a nod to the xenophobic nativists in the GOP with his references to respecting “culture” and an attempt to conflate the Southern US border with the vague “war” America is engaged in Giuliani has mapped out the typical GOP position.
It’s a position that will doom his party in the long run but unfortunately may doom immigration reform if it cannot be passed before next year when the Presidential race will really heat up.
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