Ruth Morris, Elizabeth Baier/Sun-Sentinel also concerned re amnesty hurting GOP with Latinos

What a coincidence it is as Ruth Morris and Elizabeth Baier of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel offer "Hispanic voters could make GOP pay for defeat of immigration legislation". If you've already read today's highly similar article from Jennifer Steinhauer of the New York Times, you probably don't need to bother:

With the Senate immigration bill dead and buried, political activists say their next battle will be at the ballot box, where Republicans risk losing hard-earned votes among Hispanic immigrants...

"Hispanics are not going to forget," said Jorge Mursuli, national executive director of Democracia Ahora, a Hispanic advocacy group active in voter registration drives...

"This is about their mothers or their kids or their best friend," Mursuli said. "It will be with them every single day, up to the ballot box." ..."It hurts me to see all the people who are struggling to be here," [a nobody] said. "I'm Hispanic. I support any reform that helps other Hispanics ... We're all very united."

Yep, Blut is definitely thicker than what's best for the country.

From a related story:

"Whatever political gain people think may have come out of this vote will be short-lived, especially in light of the growing and increasingly energized Latino electorate," [Janet Murguia, president and chief executive officer of the National Council of La Raza] said. "In the long run, legislators should and will be held accountable for not moving a solution forward."

Immigration2007a · Sun, 07/01/2007 - 19:36 · · Importance: 1