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I work with immigrants mostly on work visas, and they all seem to support stricter immigration controls. Look at Vivek Ramiswamy, his parents are immigrants and he's hardcore about restricting immigration.
They're just pulling the ladder up behind themselves...
That said, there are others, like Nikki Haley (I think her parents are immigrants too), who take a much more reasonable approach to make it easier to come legally and harder to come illegally. I don't like her other policies, but it's nice seeing a Republican from an immigrant family oppose Trump and his stupid border policies.
I yesterday read that one of the Koch Brothers endorses her run for presidency and wants her to prevent Trumps resurgence. Although I wouldn't vote GOP (I favoured Bernie 2016) it seems she's reasonable and the minor evil.
I'm from Europe so excuse me if I got smth wrong.
She's way better than Trump, and perhaps the only Republican I'd consider voting for. I don't like her policies, but she is rare in that she doesn't like Trump and imo has the capability to steer the GOP away from MAGA nonsense.
However, I think her policies suck in general. So I'd be voting for her for two reasons: she opposes Trump and she is kinda reasonable about immigration.
I don't think she has much of a chance this election (we'll see), but she does feel like a return to the old GOP that I didn't hate with the firey passion of a thousand suns.
I'll probably vote third party because my state will vote for the GOP candidate regardless by at least 20%, but I'll probably switch my affiliation to R to vote for her in the primaries.