Republicans talk tough against illegal immigration

Carolyn Hileman* | December 13, 2007

By Steve Holland

MIAMI (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidates stuck to their tough line against illegal immigration at a Spanish-language debate on Sunday, a stance that could spell trouble for them with Hispanic voters in next year’s election. Hispanic-Americans had backed President George W. Bush’s plan to grant illegal immigrants a pathway to citizenship and watched in dismay as conservatives torpedoed it last summer. Given the outrage over Bush’s proposal to give illegal immigrants a temporary worker status, the overriding Republican position is to vow to improve control over the U.S. border with Mexico and insist that illegal immigrants not be allowed to get ahead of prospective legal immigrants.

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