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Republican Immigration Nightmare Could Recur

Republican Immigration Nightmare Could Recur
Roque Planas
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National Reporter, HuffPost

Los Angeles, UNITED STATES: Larry Culbertson of the Minutemen Project joins other anti-illegal immigration protestors outside the Getty Center in Los Angeles, 26 May 2006 where Mexican President Vicente Fox and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa are scheduled to meet. The two officials are expected to discuss tourism and trade but Villaraigosa says he won't discuss immigration with Fox because its outside his control. The President's visit to California is the last leg of a three-state visit to the United States. AFP PHOTO / Robyn BECK (Photo credit should read ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images)
Los Angeles, UNITED STATES: Larry Culbertson of the Minutemen Project joins other anti-illegal immigration protestors outside the Getty Center in Los Angeles, 26 May 2006 where Mexican President Vicente Fox and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa are scheduled to meet. The two officials are expected to discuss tourism and trade but Villaraigosa says he won't discuss immigration with Fox because its outside his control. The President's visit to California is the last leg of a three-state visit to the United States. AFP PHOTO / Robyn BECK (Photo credit should read ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images)

For the Republicans in Washington who hoped a new bipartisan push for immigration reform would give their party a fresh start, a new face, and a second chance with Latino voters, 2013 is instead reviving some of their worst memories.

The legislation currently winding through the Senate with the help of party superstar Sen. Marco Rubio is still very much in play, and could well become the first law in a generation to address the country's immigration morass. But as conservative criticism of the reform effort grows louder, many Republican operatives, donors, and consultants are bracing for an outcome that would be even worse, politically, than the demise of the bill: a fierce, national, right-wing backlash that drowns out the GOP's friendlier voices, dominates Telemundo and Univision, and dashes any hopes the party had of making inroads to the Hispanic electorate by 2016.

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