Anytime any move is made by any politician for giving a path to LEGAL status for ILLEGALS, it is bad bad bad. It is against the welfare of hard working American middle class. It is not complicated. And it does not need a genius IQ to understand that. Actually Santorum is correct in saying even legal immigration needs to be curbed.
May be Lee & Sessions wrongly figured in 2013 that some type of reform legislation for illegals was necessary to win elections. Things have obviously changed Since then. Trump was the first to be brave enough to declare ALL illegals must be deported and we have seen his poll numbers go much higher than others.
Others ahe said that, and for a long time.
As recently as a few months ago, Trump was talking about "a path" and having illegals who are sufficiently "terrific" back in the country.