Immigration (Through the Conservative Windshield)

What does the GOP see when they consider immigration? In the last election, the backs of the Latino and Asian voters. Can the party overcome the stereotype derived from their own stereotyping? It’s all in the details of the deal being hatched in Congress. Billed as bipartisan, in reality a capitulation to electoral reality, who better than a losing presidential candidate to hear the whispers of the left?

(An edit of photos by Getty’s John Moore at a New Jersey immigration office not only inspired this post but also this Vine video we made.)

— Karen Hull

(photo: John Moore/Getty Images caption: An woman takes the oath of allegiance during a naturalization ceremony at the at district office of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) on January 28, 2013 in Newark, New Jersey. Some 38,000 immigrants became U.S. citizens at the Newark office alone in 2012.