I'm always suspicious when someone who is a high-ranking politician...
... makes a public statement, saying that they have changed their views on a topic or a matter, especially something as clear-cut as legal immigration versus illegal immigration.
I understand having sympathy for people who get themselves caught in a situation of their own doing, like being in the U.S. illegally and then facing the prospect of being deported, families being separated, etc.
But where it concerns making and enforcing the law, we don't base that on how we feel about a person going through self-made consequences and decide that we should either look the other way or change the law. The law is the basis from which things work (or don't work). The law sets the bar. It draws the line which determines what is right and what is wrong.
Illegal immigration is a no-brainer. It is wrong, completely, from one end of it to the other. I don't see how a person can one day say that they support giving amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants and then decide, later, that no, they shouldn't be granted amnesty.
What was the deciding factor that suddenly changed their mind on such an important matter? What changed their "Duh" to "Oh, OK, now I understand"?
Throw in the fact that said politician is now looking at running for the office of president, and all of a sudden things start looking very "coincidental," you might say. They sort of changed their mind all of a sudden.
Yeah, right.