It is not just a matter of votes. Once you legalize the status of the illegals and allow them to stay and work here, they can sponsor tens of millions more legal immigrants thru chain migration, i.e., family reunification. Amnesty will destroy this country with the stroke of a pen.
Understood, but truth beknown, amnesty, in some form, is coming because mass deportation or incremental deportation is not going to be an option; therefore, the penalties for being given amnesty should be of focus, as well as having the border verifibly secured first.