GOP drafts legislative assault on illegal immigration
March 30, 2011
Congressional Republicans want more fencing, sensors, agents and drones to keep out all illegal migrants.
Immigration skirmishes seem to excite the Republican base, said Wayne Cornelius, a professor emeritus at UC San Diego who has spent more than 40 years studying cross-border migration.
“In the short-term, they calculate they can gain more votes with these hard-liner proposals,” he said, but some may have qualms about alienating Latinos.
