wanderer,
Are you referring to me as "moderate" ?
The simple fact is that a big government, expensive, anti-free market response to immigration is not conservative. Population control rhetoric dominates the anti-immigration movement. This turns off social conservatives.
Trying to wrap anti-immigration in the label "conservative" does not make it so.
I thought that conservatives actually wanted the laws to be followed and wanted to stop criminals from entering the country. Illegals do not belong here. Let them get in line and wait like the rest of the world has to do.