My pleasure. Glad you enjoyed it.

The republican party has used immigrants and migrant labor as a political football forever. As soon as the settlers dispossessed Native Peoples and kicked out the British, who was allowed into "their" country has been a big issue. Much of what the GQPers run on are simply myths. The whole independant cowboy bullshit was the horse ronny road into the White House. Sadly he believed all those western movie ideals about how the west was won.
Into the 1990's tho many in both parties had the same views on immigrants and how to handle the issue . . . and then they didn't. The GQPers actually caused much of the problem by making crossing the border and issue. For years migrant labor freely crossed over to work and then they would go back - mainly to Mexico. But when it became an election issue many came to work but being afraid if they return home as they had in the past they may not be able to come back to work so they just stayed-illegally of course.
Just another fine example of creating a problem and claiming only they can solve it - just elect me.

@silverotter11 Yes they have but that doesn't absolve Dems of their political aspirations from not getting the job done. Migrant jobs tend to pay much lower so create artificial cheap prices.