With due respect, I think it’s reality that’s problematic on immigration. Nothing, absolutely nothing, needs to be discussed until the border is secure, because until the border is secure, nothing else can possibly matter.
That could not be further from the truth: we will have a presidential election before the border is secure, and if we vote in a pro-amnesty (though they never call it that) candidate for president, the country is lost.
(Though yes, indeed, the border should have been secured back in W’s administration, if not sooner.)