Here’s where the factions stand on the illegal immigration issue:
- CDs: Asylum seekers are God’s children. They are seeking refuge from terrible conditions at home. They should be treated with compassion.
- CLs: The last thing we need is some sort of massive government presence at the border.
- PBPs: Immigrants fill jobs that Americans won’t take and generate economic growth. It would be insanity to stop them at a time of inflation and labor shortages.
- Reactionaries: Immigrants poison the blood of America. They have to go! All of them.
What does this tell you? That the Reactionaries run the show within the GOP, and the rest of the party just has to shut up, even when their bottom line and their most cherished beliefs are at stake.