I don't think they actually want to stop immigration either.
I mean their racist, xenophobic sides do, but the economies in red areas are highly dependent on low wage immigrant labor. Agriculture, mining, hospitality, construction.
Trump employeed all sorts of illegals to work in his clubs and casinos.
Texas and Florida govs whine, but they are the biggest employers of illegals in the US, only behind CA.
What they really want is all the cheap illegal laborers that just disappear at the end of the day so they never have to confront them as people.
It's all bullshit sounds bites, which the GOP offer because they have nothing else.
OP swallows the hook deep, but IDK if he even aware enough to know it's there.