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The Republican Party may currently be in the throes of its most rending internal conflict since its radical abolitionists fought with gradualists on the slavery issue a century and a half ago. Today’s divisive issue is immigration, mainly Latino, from Mexico and points south, and what to do — if anything — about the nearly 12 million undocumented Spanish speakers now living in the US. The recently passed Sensenbrenner House bill, HR-4437 (slyly labeled “anti-terrorist”), seeks to make instant felons of them all, as well as of any good Samaritans who provide these immigrants with help of any kind. Cardinal Mahoney of Los Angeles may well be among the first to be arrested, tried and imprisoned under its terms, because he has publicly stated that he’ll continue to offer aid to the needy, green cards or no. The GOP “base” is split. On the one hand are nativist white Angelo-Saxon Protestants who’d prefer that the 12 million would...
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