Well the bottom line on immigration is that a majority of Americans support the idea of secure borders, but aren’t willing support the measures to get it done because there is sympathy for the situation of individual illegals. Am I wrong?
Here is the problem with your analysis and I don't know if you are wrong or not.
There are over 6 billion people in the world. It's estimated that half would come to the US if we opened the door wide enough.
We also have reliable estimates that 175,000 immigrants per year is about the right number that we should be legally letting into the country right now for the benefit of the country
The problem is the issue is seldom explained in those terms.
Currently by favoring those crossing the border with Mexico we become a biased if not severely prejudiced nation by allowing only those able to cross illegally into the country with little or no penalty.
In essence any time you stop obeying existing Federal law it's time to put up a stop sign whether the majority of people are for the issue or against it.
If the issue is that pervasive and if we should not have control of our borders than let congress pass a law to that effect and we shall see if it gets passed or not.
I hope you are wrong.