Just my 2 cents ... I don't see that as a problem. The optics of their doing so would damage their credibility and invalidate the narrative that they're keeping the borders wide open out of compassion. They'd be unmasked as the phonies that they are. I think they might win that battle in the way that you predict but eventually lose the war over illegals.
In a normal world, that wou,d indeed be the case, however,
I don’t beleive they care about the8r credibility, or about being exposed at all. They have an agenda, and are willing to lie cheat and steal, to get it done. They never apologize for a ything, and they don’t care if they get exposed, or if they do shameful things and are called put for it. What would cause normal people shame, they scoff at. And their suppprters would still be just as willfully blind as they always have. When it comes to supporting the left, they “see no evil, hear no evil,”
They used to hide their disgusting shameful agenda, but no lo get. They have taken off the gloves and are smashi g everyone I. Sight, and refusing to apologize or explain themselves any longer, and their fan base are giddy about it, because now they don’t care about what the law says, what the rules say, it is their way or the highway... they are al, through waiting patiently, and are now forcing people to accept what they dish out, or else.
That’s the way I see it. They own and control Everything. Courts, police, the military, judges, big business, msm etc etc etc, and they no longer fear being exposed because there is no downside to being exposed anymore. Sure, they will lose a few, but their base is hard-core antiamerican, pro illegal alien, and. O matter how despicable the acts that the left do, their base will z.ways support them
It truly is good vs evil here