I hate to say this but immigration is a losing issue for the GOP. Look what happened to JD Hayworth in AZ in 2006. According to Bob Novak:
“Rep. J.D. Hayworth of Arizona, a stalwart of the famous Republican class of ‘94, did not seem seriously endangered until word came back to Washington election morning that he looked like a loser. Representing a district that is not as Republican as it used to be, Hayworth had become an enforcement-only immigration hard-liner. It did not help him at the polls.”
Global Warming, and immigration. This guy is a know nothing asswipe....
Novak has an extremely selective memory. Hayworth went down because of Abramoff primarily, and secondarily because the RNC was outright hostile to its own party candidates who weren’t pro-illegal.
Immigration would be a winning issue for the Republicans if they would exploit it. But when the legislation legalizing millions of invaders bears the name of a prominent Republican senator, and the Republican President is visibly salivating on TV at the prospect of signing it, the Republicans, to those who don’t pay a lot of attention, begin to look like the party of amnesty.
That’s why there were democrats in ‘06 who ran to right of incumbent Republicans on the immigration issue, and won.
The RINOs, in their infinite stupidity, punted a winning issue to the democrats, all because they were more interested in being politically correct than in doing the right thing for American security and sovereignty.