Republicans can not really stand on the issue of immigration and the border.
For it is they who twice blocked bi-partisan deals for a fix in the last 20 years.
They do not really want a solution for they are able to take political advantage while supporting their low wage advocates that fund them.
It’s embedded in the party now.
While something needs done, you will get nowhere when you keep moving the bar to higher levels to stop any progress, and keep the political narrative. Rather than get a deal as a step in the right direction, you choose nothing. Gee, that makes sense now doesn’t it. This allows them to blame others for their own intended inaction ?
And we are about to go through a labor shortage, so, we need a fix before the status quo prevails once again. Get’m legal and paying taxes, or continue to foot the bill for cheap ass companies. Because the status quo is about to get far worse.
But without the immigration issue, republicans have few issues. They don’t like that reality.