Kansas agriculture secretary seeks federal waiver for illegal immigrants

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12. Right! Corporate republicans want large numbers of illegal immigrants, thus their "self-deporting"

strategy and their opposition to a path to citizenship. Corporate repubs know that "self-deporting" doesn't work (so the "illegals" will still be here) and with no path to citizenship they stay "illegal" and exploitable (which is why Mitt pushes it so hard).

You're right, too, that in pandering to their nativist base they have created a "monster". That base led to state immigration laws in Arizona, South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama (all republican states, of course) that have harmed the very businesses that the "corporate" boys are all about.

It is a hard issue for Democrats as well, but at least we have comprehensive reform that includes the enforcement measures that the right loves with other strategies that help make the illegal immigrants who are still here less "illegal" and less exploitable.