Public opinion polling shows Americans overall have a more right wing view of immigration now than at any point in modern memory. A recent cbs poll shocked the anchors when it showed than even a third of democrats supported mass deportation.
Biden rolling out amnesty does not read the room properly, and would probably be struck down anyway.
What am I missing here? How doesn’t this hurt him in the southwest swing states?
Because they aren't the same thing. There's a big delta between wanting to curb illegal immigration and a pathway to citizenship for people already here. That CBS question result was a very big outlier among those types of topics.
