The Romney Wing of the Republican Party was always for AMNESTY...
They've always been for wage-breaking, even 120 years ago. The huge ocean liners of the White Star Line (Olympic, Titanic, Britannic) were actually built to haul mostly third-class immigrant passengers to America to ride half-owner J.P. Morgan's trains out to Morgan's railroad land-grant acreages and fructify those vast areas with their work and husbandry, and make Morgan even more galactically rich than he was.
If all three had been able to go into service simultaneously, the three big White Star liners would have been capable of bringing about 75,000 steerage-class immigrants to America annually.
The Republican Party has always been the party of unlimited immigration and near-zero wages and union-breaking, aka cost-control. Even Illinois gun-control laws had their origin in Republican state political machine union-busting in the 1870's and 1880's (Presser vs. Illinois, 1886).
(Art.) RUSH: Well, is that the reason that a majority of immigrants come to this country today? .... I've seen a number of research, scholarly research data, which says that a vast majority of arriving immigrants today ... believe that government is the source of prosperity, and that's what they support. ..... Are the Republicans stuck in the past in misjudging why the country is attractive to immigrants today?
It would also be helpful to know how many people in the GOP actually believe this, and how many are just using it as a line, to snow the conservative wing into going along with an open-borders measure that will give the Democrats the whole country for centuries to come.