True, but he'll likely get them anyway.
Hell, at this point I'm not even sure we have a prospective candidate for POTUS that's against it.
It appears not.
The absurd thing about our immigration situation is that almost every other county in the world with large scale immigration is deporting illegals and reducing the number of immigrants allowed, or at least the politicians are competing with each other to claim they will do this.
The USA is literally the only Western country where giving amnesty to illegals is being seriously discussed.
Wealthy Saudi Arabia deported over 2 million visa overstayers in 2013 and made impoverished Ethiopia pay for its own citizen’s airfare home if they couldn’t afford it. Israel has passed tough new laws with long prison sentences for people who “infiltrate” across it’s borders. In the UK, the LABOR PARTY leader says immigration must be cut back and that previous immigration has harmed the country. Other European countries’ political climates are even more negative on immigration. Australia is now deporting illegal immigrant “asylum seekers” to an offshore detention center on contact and automatically denying their claims for asylum. Singapore reduced immigration after people complained that they were taking too many of the available jobs — their quasi-democratic government actually listened to the people and acted quickly. Impoverished Botswana put an electrified fence on it’s long border with Zimbabwe. This goes on and on.
The near unanimity with which the political class and the media here in the USA support amnesty and open borders is a complete anomaly.