As you say “if they are large enough and if they apply to all” then yeah it could work and would support it...
however...it is the “guvmit” we’re talking about
Actually I don’t think this is so much the guvmit in the “we know whats best for the people” sense. Its the guvmit “we like big business money” sense. Our ole conservative ally is only conservative by convenience. If libs held to a pro-big-business position on most things, then businesses would vilify conservatism. Big-business is amoral and apolitical. Bite them in the ass on illegal immigration and they will fall in line. Its sorta like pollution at the turn of the last century. Big business didn’t like controls on pollution because it played hell with their profit margin. They had to be forced to bring their practices in line with what was acceptable to the people. I’d add that the people had to be convinced that business practices were unacceptable. Like now, the cost to consumers was involved. ILLEGAL immigration is the pollution, in a business sense, at the turn of this century.