Gotta take issue with calling this one little issue. Illegal immigration negatively affects education, healthcare, crime, the economy, social services, insurance rates, national security, etc. Getting it wrong on this "one little issue" means getting it wrong on many, many issues.
IMO, those lawmakers who don't (or won't) understand that, regardless of previous conduct, deserve whatever wrath their constituents see fit to bring down upon them come election day.
A moronic deafness to meaning behind the literal words. Right up there with wanting to ban Huck Finn on the theory that it is racists.
I realize that you, in substance, agree with me. So, I reply angrily in frustration rather than disagreement. Maybe you post in a hurry. But really, if you can't recognize the irony here -- after my very bad joke that it plays against -- well....