The GOP needs to...

Except they don't have a tenable policy either. Yeah, they may win on promises. But they won't be able to fulfill most of those promises without real immigration reform, which they have been opposed to for at least the past 30 years. I think Reagan was the last POTUS that signed a significant immigration bill passed by Congress (which would be 40 years ago!).

I was musing with our daughter just last night that all the undocumented migrants should go home for six months. Just leave. And then us USA'ians would realize just how much we rely on those folks. The price of produce would skyrocket, just as one example. Of course, you could never organize such a thing. And I'm not sure that would move Republicans to support comprehensive reforms anyway. I'm starting to think it was like abortion: a good issue to rally the troops, but they didn't really want to solve it. Now that they have, it's been beating many "R" candidates at the polls. Same here...they don't want to make immigration better because then they wouldn't have a bludgeon to use. Unlike abortion, I don't think making immigration policy better would blow up in their faces. So they just want the bludgeon.