This is more widespread than just RINO's I would say there are precious few who do not play for pay.
Oh, and Eisenhower was a Beltway outsider. He was an accomplished politician - you don't get to be a five-star without those skills - but he learned his politics in the arena of wartime military, where you have to get things done and not just play word games and punt the problem to the next guy.
There are lots of lessons in this article for those who choose to learn them.
I see a huge difference between Bracero and the Red-Card program.
Namely, Bracero sought to fill bona fide short-term labor shortages.
The Red Card types are the same folks who push abuse of legal visas to push down American wages. H1-B became a complete fraud in the 2002 IT slump when a half-million H1-B visa holders were brought in when hundreds of thousands of IT workers were out of work.
So in the end, it all comes down to intent. And sorry, I don't see Newt's intentions as good. His solution to failure to enforce the law is to change the law. Eisenhower showed what can happen when the law is enforced with integrity. A few states have shown what even a threat of enforcement can accomplish. It all boils down to being serious about actually solving the problem instead of profiting from it being perpetuated.
From the article, there were roughly ten self-deportations for every actual deportation. A ratio to contemplate the next time someone demands you to show how 12 million illegals can be forcibly deported.