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Critics conceded a setback but argued that it would be temporary. They said enforcement alone won’t stop illegal immigration but will alienate Latino voters, the nation’s fastest-growing voter bloc. They said it will turn Republicans into a minority party, much as when former Gov. Pete Wilson won re-election in 1994 on an anti-immigrant platform that ultimately helped make California a Democratic-majority state.
For now, however, the political tide clearly favors enforcement first, legalization later.
“Not even a year ago, if you talked about a fence, you were an extremist who wanted to wall off the United States,” said Rosemary Jenks, government affairs director for Numbers USA, a group opposing immigration on population grounds. “Now the fence is a no-brainer.”
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