That’s very similar to the analysis offered by Senator Ted Cruz (R., Texas), Senator Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.) and other immigration hawks at the opposite end of the political spectrum from Gutiérrez.

“Ninety-five percent said ‘we are coming because we’ve been promised amnesty,’” Cruz said in early July. “‘We are coming because if we get here, we were told that we are allowed to stay, that we will have a permiso.’”

Gutiérrez denounced the freeze on the DACA program championed by Cruz and Representative Marsha Blackburn (R., Tenn.), describing the legislation as a sop to “the very extreme, right-wing, xenophobic faction of their party.”