Strange

I'm not clear on how Republicans make sense of their pro-NAFTA style trade position when taken in concert with their pro-Giant-Electrified-Fence position on immigration. Apparently it's perfectly fine for General Electric to take your manufacturing job away to Mexico... but not so much for actual Mexicans to come here and underbid you for that gig at Smoothie King. It's an inconsistency born out of a need to simultaneously pander to the twin GOP "bases" of economic elites who love cheap subservient labor on the one hand and racist xenophobes who hate brown people on the other. So far it isn't being done with much grace. And so I'm wondering, like Oyster is, why Republican candidates are so eager to highlight the issue.