People are very quick when it comes to self interest. POTUS has already stared red-pilling the Hispanic & Black voting blocks. Swaths of those groups are speaking out against the Democratic track record and the lack of any concrete action.
I think you forget there are not only DACA people in the block for whom amnesty is a core issue. Many of the others vote. Convincing those people that POTUS wants to solve the problem is a very significant gain. POTUS does want to solve the issue because he wants to clean up immigration, end chain migration & the lottery, change to a merit based system with quotas in America’s interest. Strengthen the border & implement a better way of keeping track of Visa holders to prevent overstays.
In essence by making it a package POTUS is welding together a new constituency and robbing the DEMS of support in 2018 & 2020.
And he already has the support of Americans who support those goals. And those comprehensive goals to secure the border and reduce overall immigration is precisely what the Dims and their core supporters oppose so strongly.
In essence by making it a package POTUS is welding together a new constituency and robbing the DEMS of support in 2018 & 2020.
Not sure what your overall point is. The president might bring some new people into his constituency if he succeeds in implementing those immigration reforms, but he won't win over recent Third World immigrants or any of the hard core Dims.
It is a fantasy for some Republicans that recent poor and poorly educated Third World legal and illegal immigrants are going to become Republicans, not for any reason will it happen.