You miss the point. True conservatives do care about those issue, but realize that amnesty would result in 10s of millions of new leftists voters, followed by total leftist control, and the end of any hope of small government, freedom, or a strong economy and military.
Who is talking about amnesty? Well, except for all the candidates... including the non-candidate, Palin.
So, it’s not much of an issue if there is no choice to be found in all the candidates.
That said, I think we’re approaching the illegal immigration issue wrong with the fence. We need to get rid of all government support and aid to illegals. No welfare, no medicare, no free hospital visits, no bilingual education, etc, etc, etc.
With that, the ones that stay are the one’s that are going to work their butt off to EARN their way. They’ll have to learn English and join the melting pot that is America in order to survive, just like the millions of Eastern European immigrants that flooded our country during the 1880-1920s.
And that’s the kind of immigrant we want to keep. Not the leeches, not the criminals, not those incapable of becoming American.