There was an interesting article in the San Francisco Chronicle that spelled out how the Arizona immigration law will have few negative political consequences for Republicans.
You can read a few news reports that claim that the law will hurt the Republicans among Hispanic voters but realistically most of them vote for Democrats anyway.
Before the last election, John McCain pushed the Bush/Kennedy immigration reform bill in 2007. This bill was strongly supported by Latinos but was killed in congress. McCain was strongly criticized by conservatives. He put his political future at risk by his support for creating a path to citizenship for illegal migrants.
For his efforts McCain only won 31 % of the Latino vote in 2008. Meanwhile Obama helped kill that same bill and received 67% of the Latino vote.
As a result; one of two conclusions can be made, either the Hispanic voters will always vote strongly for the Democratic Party or immigration reform just isn’t as important to them as popularly believed.
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