Toughen Amnesty to Lock in Enforcement

Rather than opposing legalization bills outright, an opposition party can accept legalization as a baseline while legislatively hardening enforcement and admission rules (for example, mandatory E‑Verify, parole caps, tighter public‑charge tests, and limits on chain migration). This reframes amnesty as a vehicle to entrench permanent enforcement and selective admission policies instead of a one‑off concession. — If adopted, this approach would reconfigure legislative bargaining over immigration—turning a partisan liability into a tool to institutionalize stricter border and labor controls with long‑term fiscal and social effects.