It would be an overstatement to say that the Republican presidential candidates are debating one another’s policy ideas. Very few of the candidates have put forward extensive policy agendas. Several of the candidates have not yet formally announced that they are even running. We are, however, beginning to get a slightly clearer picture of where the candidates will stand, and where they might fight.
Immigration seems as though it should be a dividing line — the party truly has deep differences of opinion on it — but so far that line is not clear. All of the candidates appear to be open to providing legal status to illegal immigrants eventually, if certain conditions are met: if, for example, the border is secured and the illegal immigrants pay a fine first.
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