The Trump and Cruz Show May Be Good For Immigration Reform

Elise Foley writes in Huffington Post:

The top two finishers in the Iowa Republican caucuses on Monday are both stridently opposed to a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants — but it’s possible that their continued success could be a good thing for immigration reform.

Here’s how that logic works, according to reform advocates: The longer that Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and business mogul Donald Trump, who placed first and second in Iowa, are in the news talking about border walls and driving out undocumented immigrants, the more that Latino, Asian and other minority voters will be galvanized to get out and vote against them.

If they do, and if the GOP suffers another disastrous loss, there could be a repeat of 2012, which prompted the Republican National Committee to rethink its immigration messaging in its so-called “autopsy report” and the Senate to pass a bill that would have allowed many undocumented immigrants to become citizens. Read more…

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