Oh, I want to close alright! I want to close the border and kick your cheap, taxpayer-funded, medical-stealing, freeloading labor out of my country, Teddy.
The democRATS are looking for new freeloaders for their party base. The republicans are looking, apparently, for cheap labor. Neither is looking for votes in 2008!
Then they should want to keep the status quo (keeping the aliens illegal). Once the hordes become American citizens they won't be working for slave wages anymore. ....and many will join (Democrat-controlled) unions. Amnesty in no way benefits the Republican party. And if any of them think the majority will register GOP out of some sort of gratitude they're deluded beyond description.
The amnesty-supporting Republicans evidently have their sights set on something far larger than mere votes or cheap labor, and are apparently willing to sacrifice their party to get it.