The blatant appeals to act out of sympathy, rather in the interest of having a voting population, which appreciates our cultural heritage & historic values, is just one more example of what I describe as Misdirection: Familiar Leftist Tactic.
That "W" didn't get it, and Obama deliberately sabotaged the continuity of American values, are major parts of the problem. Every nation has a right -- an inherent right--to act to preserve its continued existence; to build on its past achievements. That is the essential issue here.
What many don’t get is that W REDUCED border and interior enforcement AFTER 9/11 and was all in on turning the USA into North Mexico. Obama continued a bipartisan policy started by Daddy Bush.