Seeing the anti-immigrant sentiment among the Republican party's voting patterns made me want to take a closer look at what was going on. After all, the Republicans have not always been so blatantly anti-immigrant. When it comes to economic and religious issues they have been more supportive of minorities than democrats, whose support of immigrants are based more on social issues: diversity dogma, welfare addiction and inequality watching.

The current behavior of the Republican party I want to believe is not a blanket indictment against them. It's the hallmark of catering to a conservative base, who are only accepting of racial justice issues once economic stability and legal justice has been taken care of.

The Republican "No" is a tactic to hobble the party in power. Now that the dust has settled, we will see something different from the Republicans.

I hope.