As I’ve stated before, immigration should not, never, not in a million years be the tip of the spear on Hispanic outreach. Policy is policy and outreach is outreach. When we try to use policy as outreach, principle ultimately suffers. The inexorable end result is a fruitless pander which results in compromised principles and a loss of credibility.

Furthermore, conservative acquiescence on “tone” constitutes an automatic acceptance of the left’s narrative language…such as, for example, the term “anti-immigrant” as a descriptor of immigration legislation. And as is the case with conservatives and calls for a “new tone”, “new tone” is almost always synonymous with “submission”.

The other day, I discussed Congressman Steve Pearce within that context. If you haven’t already done so, follow the link so that you may also see an alternate approach that will likely yield better results than the old cave-and-pander approach. Pearce doesn’t do “tone”, and pulled 40+% of the Hispanic vote.