After a couple of posts about how elites are out of step with voters’ views (see below), it seems time to take a moment to remember why elites are out of step on immigration. Democrats want the future-voters-favoring-free-stuff that immigrants are thought to be. Their motive is clear enough ... self-interest.
So why do Republican elites drag their feet on immigration when nearly all Republican voters support border security? Unlike uber-wealthy Trump, most Republican politicians though far from poor, are not able (or willing) to self-finance their high dollar election campaigns.
This makes many Republican candidates reliant on big GOP donors who, for selfish reasons, favor the low labor costs that come with a nearly unlimited immigrant workforce. Pro-immigrant plutocrats pay the piper and call the political tune.
