Entrenched interests support the status quo and fight it in any number of ways, since they get to play both sides.
1. They can be the voices crying “Xenophobic, Hispanic haters.”
or
2. “Love, compassion, it’s all for the children”
or
3. “I’ll support nothing less than deportation of illegals”
or
4. “Anything resembling amnesty is anti-American”
and on and on and on.
The problem is that it’s easy for them to dynamite any discussion and get folks at each others throats.
And the whole point is to have the status quo continue.
My sense is that it’s not going to change. In the meantime we get the status quo: open borders 24/7, drug cartels, terrorist crossings, illegal labor driving down wages and sucking up jobs, enormous costs in education, health care, and other social benefits, and a host of new voters for the democratic party.
And the democrats can act concerned and like elder statesmen as they lament the lack of compassion but also the need to get things under control. They get to say whatever they want while the status quo stays in effect.
Don’t look at me. I think the whole thing needs to be burnt down and rebuilt upon the original Constitutional footings with a completely blank USC.
Nothing less than ripping the current Powers That Be out by the roots will change anything.
Understandably, my viewpoint is in the minority.