For whom will Hispanic Republicans vote?

Kevin Williamson writes an article in National Review about the relationship between today's Republican Party and Hispanics.

“Citizenship isn’t a priority for illegals,” Muniz says. “They’re here for economic reasons. They want to work. If we let them work in peace, that’s all they’re interested in.” Granting illegals permanent residency status, or the much-discussed “pathway to citizenship” is mostly beside the point. In and around Houston, where Muniz lives, Mexican immigrants tend to undergo a fairly quick economic integration. “They’re driving new trucks and buying houses,” he says. But the persistence of Spanish-speaking enclaves and the enduring contacts between Mexican immigrants and their home communities — which may in some cases only be a few hundred miles away — makes the full cultural assimilation of these immigrants difficult in a way that was not the case for European Jews, Poles, Irish, and Italians a generation ago. “We just want to be treated like Americans, and like earlier immigrants.”

Wiliamson pays a visit to the Republican state convention in Dallas.

For one thing, I cannot find — and I’m really looking — one person named Guzmán or Perez or Cisneros or Lopez (not even a Kathryn Jean) or Morales or anything like that. There are lots of black folks to be seen — lots for a Republican convention, by which I mean black people in something almost approaching their proportion of the general population — but this seems to be the only place in Texas where there isn’t anybody of Hispanic background to be found. (Hell, there are even white-supremacist gangs in Texas with Hispanic members.) El Republicano, “The Voice of the Texas Federation of Hispanic Republicans,” is advertising a cigar-smoker caucus after-party, but in the meeting rooms and corridors, this is pretty much an Anglo affair.

It isn’t only the Hispanic Republicans who are dreading Trump. Pro-life activists are wary of him, and one volunteer for a traditional-marriage organization just rolled her eyes when I asked whether he thought Trump solid on her issues. (I’d have asked “Texans for Civic Engagement” what they thought, but, in what I assume was a hilarious Dadaist prank, their table was empty the entire time I was in the exhibit hall.) Others I spoke to shared the view of David Hagan from Victoria: That Mrs. Clinton is a certain disaster, and that Trump presents uncertainty.

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