IN RESPONSE to Donald Trump redoubling his attack on America’s 11m-odd illegal immigrants and their progeny, Gary Johnson, who is vying to pick up Republican voters repelled by Mr Trump, refused even to describe them as “illegal”.
“If you use the term “illegal immigrants”, that is very incendiary to our Hispanic population here in this country,” said the former governor of New Mexico and presidential nominee of the Libertarian Party. He preferred the term “undocumented workers”, and added that, in their shoes, he would be one too: “They came into this country because they couldn’t get in legally and the jobs existed and you or I would have done the same thing.”
Formerly a Republican, Mr Johnson is saying what a lot of his former party colleagues would like to about Mr Trump’s thuggery. How John McCain, Marco Rubio, Scott Walker and other moderate Republicans—all sometime or current supporters of immigration reform—must wish they were free, or brave enough, to echo him.
Likeminded Republicans represent a big electoral opportunity for Mr Johnson, who won just 0.99% of the vote for the Libertarians in the 2012...Continue reading
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