The reason this is being pushed so hard is that the Republicans have realized that the issue has gotten away from them. Mass deportation is the only real solution, but mass deportation in this age of omnipresent media just isn’t going to happen. The recent Mexican demonstrations in LA and elsewhere scared the politicians badly. The sight of crying mothers and babies on TV being forced into buses by ICE troopers will turn those millions of “peaceful demonstrators” into an army. Mass deportation would kick off a civil insurrection.
No politcian is going to risk that, And so, the Z-visa — soft amnesty for the invader class.
We should have the same immigration policy that Mexico has for immigrants.
Better now than later.