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Though he seems to be a Bush supporter, publisher of the Brownsville Herald R. Daniel Cavazos takes Hutchison (and Cornyn) to task for their hardline stance on immigration.

Texas senators turn backs on Hispanics and their president

The House bill’s chief author, Rep. James Sensenbrener, recently compared employers who hire illegal immigrants to the slaveholders of the old South. The bill’s other chief proponent, Rep. Tom Tancredo, has been on an anti-Latino rampage for several years, warning essentially that Mexicans are out to take over the United States.

This is the crowd that Hutchison and Cornyn have allied themselves with in deserting their president and fellow Texan on the immigration issue. It cuts deeper than just the immediate political implications of the issue.

It also speaks volumes of where these two senators see themselves in representing their state and crafting the long-range appeal of their party.

...The leading Texas Republicans of our day, Hutchison, Cornyn and the border camera-toting governor and grand panderer, Rick Perry, seem oblivious to all of this and seem indifferent to the fact that they serve a state that will become majority Hispanic by the year 2040.