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Friday 30 July 2010

We’ll hear from GOP candidates that Arizona had to act because the federal government refuses to “secure the border.” The fact is that President Obama has sharply increased border enforcement and deportations; the influx of undocumented immigrants is greatly reduced from what it was during the Bush administration. But there Obama goes again, trying to find a sane, moderate course of action. Predictably, he’s getting hit from both sides—the anti-immigrant crowd that claims he’s not doing enough, and the pro-immigrant crowd that complains he’s doing too much. Immigration wasn’t always a partisan issue, but that’s what it has become; even John McCain, once a strong advocate of comprehensive reform, now sides with the xenophobes. This is a huge long-term problem for Republicans, who risk becoming branded as the anti-Latino party—and driving the nation’s biggest and fastest-growing minority group into the arms of the Democratic Party for a generation or more. Eugene Robinson

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