In the past, if you asserted that the Republican Party is anti-immigration, someone would always pop up to angrily retort that the GOP is only against illegal immigration. Occasionally, someone would say that what conservatives really want is to shift our immigration mix from low-skilled to high-skilled.
If this were 1995 or 2005, perhaps conservatives really would be satisfied with policies that curbed illegal immigration while preserving the legal kind. But the Trump administration has made it crystal clear that it’s opposed to all immigration, including of the legal high-skilled variety that the right used to claim to want.
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