So, according to you, building a wall on our border with Mexico, enforcing employer sanctions and eliminating govt welfare handouts to illegals is part of the conservative imagination. I don't think so. Poll after poll shows that significant majorities of American's support all three policies. The people who oppose them, are either liberal or libertarian.
>>>>It's time for conservatives to stop living in fantasy land ....
Conservatives don't live in fantasyland. Making fantasy a reality, is what liberalism is all about. The New Deal, the Fair Deal and the Great Society have been making fantasy a reality since 1933. Senate bill S.2611, fits the liberal agenda to a tee. Its what you support.
If that were true, the Republicans would have won. If these things were at the top of people's concerns, then my district in AZ would have re-elected J.D. Heyworth, despite the BS accusations of corruption. His opponent was on record supporting less strict measures, and JDs ads continually repeated that fact.
It's not like AZ doesn't want a solution to the problem, it voted in several ballot questions supporting English only, etc. But the simplistic "build a wall" and "throw the criminals out" methods do not hold water with thinking people. The proof is that J.D. lost.