Unfortunately, McConnel, Paul, Boehner, et all will push for a amnesty lite.
They’re going to have a hard time getting amnesty through the House. They had a much more favorable position last time in 2007 — GWB was pushing amnesty and the Dems had a comfortable majority in the House. And yet, the GOP leadership could not deliver to Nancy Pelosi even the relatively small number of GOP votes she needed to get amnesty through. (She had to let off the hook a number of her Dems from unsafe districts.)
This time will be far more difficult. The Dem majority in the House is long gone. And the GOP reps are by and large more conservative than those in 2007. And, after that wave of unaccompanied children and now the Ebola scare, the American public is *much* less disposed to entertain the notion of amnesty. The earful that scared the crap out of those reps in 2007 would be a thunder in today’s climate.