Amnesty for illegal immigrants is a very real possibility right now, because a small band of renegade House Republicans might cross party lines to work with Democrats to seize control of the floor via a discharge petition and pass a bill over the objections of the House GOP leadership and the vast majority of the House GOP Conference.

If amnesty were to be enacted that way, congressional Republicans would be as guilty of a betrayal of their grassroots as they were when they utterly failed in 2017 to repeal Obamacare. And the electoral outcome at the next election would likely be the same as was the outcome of the elections that followed their failure to repeal Obamacare — a GOP wipeout.