The rats have a problem there because as much as they’d love to appear hawkish on the illegals to steal republican votes, they can’t go too far or they alienate (no pun intended) their sheehan-moonbats.
That’s the beauty of this as a wedge issue: The Dims don’t have to do anything in the way of taking a side on illegal immigration...they can sit back and let the media do their dirty work, pitching the Pubbies at each other, and then claim to be faithful to whoever’s in the same room with them. SOP for the Dims.