GOP Commits Own Goal: Votes to Deport Children

This is why the GOP is so reviled by Hispanics and might still have a chance of becoming a regional rump party in the next 20 years.

The Republican-controlled House voted Thursday to resume the deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought illegally to the United States as children, a largely symbolic move in the first immigration-related vote in either chamber of Congress this year and a measure of the daunting challenge facing supporters of a sweeping overhaul of existing law on the subject.

The party-line vote of 224-201 was aimed at blocking implementation of President Barack Obama's 2012 election-year order to stop deportations of many so-called DREAM Act individuals. Democrats on the House floor reacted with boos when the provision was added to a routine spending bill for the Department of Homeland Security.

There is no other way to spin this other than to say that the GOP hates immigrant children and wants to send them away from the only home they currently know. That is a great way to get Hispanics to vote for you. This is the kind of thing that will make me join the Moderate party if there was such a thing. The conservatives in the GOP are trying to make sure a Democrat controls the White House forever.