Although the Conservative opposition has continually attributed the increase to what it contends is a too-soft immigration policy, proposing that many illegal immigrants should be automatically detained and deported, refugee groups point out that the reality is far more complicated.
But this member said it'd be just as difficult to oppose the president as it would be to support a bill that was perceived as soft on immigration, and if Trump supported an immigration bill, that would certainly give him pause in opposing it.
At around the time that Mitt Romney was winning the primary by attacking his opponents for being too soft on immigration, the largest state Republican Party in America was ridding its platform of its most restrictionist immigration language and calling for a program to allow unauthorized immigrants to stay in the U.S. legally and work.
He hectored Mr. Lonegan for making exaggerated claims about the liberal leanings of a judge Mr. Christie had endorsed, and he scolded Mr. Lonegan for having once hired an illegal immigrant laborer, although he now criticizes Mr. Christie for being soft on immigration.
Abandoning it would prompt accusations of a U-turn and going soft on immigration.
Rand Paul used Paris as a way of attacking Marco Rubio for being soft on immigration.
Trump tarred all three, despite their protestations, with the same brush of being soft on immigration.
64% have serious concerns that Labour are too soft on immigration, including 61% in Scotland.
The Liberal Democrats have been seen by some voters as "too soft" on immigration, including some of their natural supporters.
The Sun's message was clear: the BBC is run by a bunch of lefties who are soft on immigration".
Similarly, when a Daily Caller blogger published a post accusing Fox News of being soft on immigration, Carlson unpublished it.
