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Victor Davis Hanson notes that the narrative might come out very negative for the Democrats:

There is a great deal of chest-thumping among Obama’s supporters that “comprehensive immigration” reform is an invaluable campaign issue that will ensure a Democratic Southwest, as Republicans fall into some sort of nativist trap.

I’m not so sure. Hispanics respect the rule of law as much as anyone; closing the borders first, then worrying about the auxillary issues later, won’t necessarily prove polarizing, especially if presented in terms of a desire to insist on the rule of law and a racially/ethnically blind nation. This year’s immigration lead-ins on the evening news are not Minutemen on the border and poor immigrants wandering the desert deprived of water by cruel Americans, but lines of Americans at job fairs, reports that the unemployed are looking for any sort of work that they can get their hands on, and a brutality and savagery right across the border every bit as disturbing as what we’ve seen on jihadist videos.

What will cause polarization is a radical Democratic drive now for de facto amnesty without border closure — at a time of rising unemployment here at home and utter chaos and violence in Mexico. So far the real extremist rhetoric (cf. Ms. Pelosi’s recent rants in California) has come from the open-borders side, not from those who wish to return to legal immigration and a border run in accordance with the law.

It must be kept in mind that the people of real cruelty in this debate are those who are in favor of open borders – open borders which only profit the corrupt in Mexico and the United States who see human beings as objects to be exploited. The reason we hold that the rule of law is precious is because without law, humans are sheep thrown to the wolves. While we have only one ultimate Shepherd, while we live on Earth the law is our day to day shepherd. Part of our problem, I think, is that liberals and their leftist offspring don’t really understand what law is, nor what justice is…nor, indeed, what charity is, when you get right down to it.

It is illegal to cross our borders without permission – liberals say that the law is to be set aside based on a narrative of alleged American racism, imperialism in hispanic lands and the poverty of the illegal immigrants. It is unjust to Americans to force them to provide social services to those who are in the country illegally – liberals say that justice actually means anyone who arrives in any state of need must be given all we have. Charity is when a person volunteers to help another, including those Americans who go down south and work as teachers, doctors, engineers and such to help alleviate the poverty of our brothers and sisters in hispanic lands – liberals say that charity is providing taxpayer funds for race-baiting groups who thrive on having poor, excluded groups they can run as private fiefdoms.

The topsy-turvy liberal view of immigration had the benefit of a friendly media and a heart-tugging narrative…but such things have worn thin. The first blow against the narrative was when those pro-illegal immigration demonstrators carried Mexican flags through America’s streets…the American people awoke to the fact that we weren’t just getting gardeners and dry wall installers, we were actually importing a foreign nation, hostile to America as a whole. The second blow came with the downturn in the economy…Americans are suffering a lot of hardship, themselves, and so stories of Mexican poverty will pull less heart strings than they used to. The third and, perhaps, final blow is the growing levels of nauseating violence in Mexico…who wants to get mixed up in that sort of thing? Better to keep it in Mexico and try to help the Mexicans stamp it out, but no need to bring it into El Paso, San Diego and Albuquerque.

As I’ve said before and will continue to say – I’m in favor of immigration and have an especial desire for those Mexican and other immigrants who are willing to work so hard and who’s religious faith is so strong that in both labor and faith, these immigrants will go a long way towards reinvigorating America’s moral and economic health. I want those who are here and have settled into our community as good Americans to be given amnesty and made citizens on a fast track. I want a guest worker program to allow foreigners to fill those jobs American’s won’t do (I note with great care that even with unemployment heading towards 10% there is a lack of Americans applying for work in the fields and ditches of America’s hardest labor). But the first thing: a secure border. The laws enforced. Justice assured. Charity for all who need it.

If the Democrats believe they can secure a permanent majority by pandering to the advocates of illegal immigration, then by all means: have at it. We GOPers should counter that with a program designed to bring all Americans – immigrant and native – into the support of the rule of law and a genuine sense of justice and mercy for those who suffer poverty in foreign lands. We can simply tell the truth – Democrats are pandering for votes, America be damned; illegal immigrant advocates are either race-hustlers or corporate exploiters; the people who profit from illegal immigrants aren’t the immigrants, but corrupt Mexican politicians, Mexican criminal gangs and those in America who view human beings as a commodity. I believe that we will win such a debate.

Now, lets have it – if the Democrats have the guts (and idiocy) to try.