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When / if the debate on the "immigration reform" starts, the Republicans should focus on and question the government's "Too Big, Too Failed" [ir]responsible border security and related security agencies such as Border Patrol, ICE, Treasury etc. and propose reform(s) that should involve assigning accountability for failure and restructuring of these agencies or the funding of other incentives and/or alternatives, as well as streamlining visa process and other immigration controls and procedures...

This would completely separate and clarify - for the public at large - the two unrelated issues, place the responsibility for the security and immigration failures where it belongs, and put the spotlight and the heat on the failures of the government to properly and constitutionally deal with both, thus completely changing the control of the agenda and putting the liberals and linguine-spined "moderates" of both parties on the defensive on the issue.

We could also point out that we've already had one similar "immigration reform" that completely failed in achieving its stated goals, so we need to fix the mistakes, not repeat them by encoding them in another law.