Who said anything about republicans? I’m an immigrant from a country that exists because it split off from another country due to cultural differences (even though nearly everyone in the story was a “brown” Muslim). Incidentally, ended up being a great idea because those cultural differences (tolerance for theocracy and military rule, lack of respect for government) caused the other country to kind of go off the rails later. Culture matters!

Ironically, nearly all the people immigrating to the US come from countries that believe the same thing as republicans: one cultural group has no moral obligation to invite another cultural group over the border to share democratic governance of their country with them. Indians believe that, Chinese people believe that. Japanese people, Koreans, everyone in the Middle East. Mexicans would flip out if mass immigration from Guatemala was flipping elections in their country.

In reality, American democrats and a handful of liberals in European countries are the odd ones out in elevating immigration to a moral issue. Ironically, it’s because they have the least respect for culture. Religious and cultural differences don’t matter to them because they’ll teach their culture in schools anyway.