- illegal immigration costs $130 billion per year, $325 per year for every American;
- illegal immigration takes jobs from both native Americans and legal immigrants;
- specifically, illegal immigration causes Black unemployment and Hispanic unemployment;
- Hispanic-American citizens oppose amnesty in any form;
- business is shooting itself in the foot by advocating amnesty; and
- illegal immigration results in the lowest quality of immigrant.
Add welfare and crime statistics.
The GOPe is not going to pick up this issue, so it is ready-made for conservatives and the Tea Party, with the support of 60% to 70% of voters, even more if you exclude illegal alien voters.
The GOP has a winning issue on reducing LEGAL IMMIGRATION from the current 1.1 million permanent legal immigrants annually. The status quo on legal immigration will make the Dems the permanent majority party.