They don’t care about the issues, they care about power. Immigration only really mattered to Republicans because immigrants make a convenient scapegoat for them.
And, specifically, Trump thinks he can get the same deal passed while he is in office. In other words, what is important to Trump now is denying Biden a bipartisan “victory” that he thinks he will be able to achieve, instead.
They don’t care about the issues, they care about power. Immigration only really mattered to Republicans because immigrants make a convenient scapegoat for them.
And, specifically, Trump thinks he can get the same deal passed while he is in office. In other words, what is important to Trump now is denying Biden a bipartisan “victory” that he thinks he will be able to achieve, instead.