I think that your average Tea Partier is just as unhappy about the out-of-control debt, Obamacare, the politicization of every agency of government, the uncontrolled data capture and spying on US citizens, and the foreign policy that stabs our friends in the back while kowtowing to our enemies.
It’s just that the illegal amnesty executive order, if not overturned, will change our country by destroying our constituional form of government and importing into the country hordes of non-Americans to replace the citizenry and dilute our values.
That's a "hodgepodge of extreme positions," a "rambling grab bag of hot-button issues."
Opposing amnesty IS fiscally responsible. They do/will cost us much more than they’ll pay in.
On that argument alone they fit into the TEA party agenda.
I am against BIG Federal Government overreach where ever it currently exists: environmentally, lax control of voter eligibility, spying on taxpayers, destroying our monetary system, overtaxing, over regulation of our daily lives, destroying local control of education. Illegal Immigration is just one of many insults to the American ideal, you just have to open your eyes to see what is going on.
May God Damn the usurper who was elected by fools and ignorant voters.