Who gets to decide what is the conservative stand on each issue? Well we could argue that favoring more immigration is a conservative viewpoint. Few of the founding fathers likely advocated reducing immigration, or curtailing it, or cutting it back. Those who wrote the Declaration of Independence listed as one of their grievances that the king was restricting immigration. One of the reasons we went to war, then, was to secure more open borders. Yet, today, opening up immigration is usually considered a liberal stance.
Conservatives usually don't like it when government restricts things, or when government takes away freedoms, but on the issue of immigration, that isn't the case.
But, it depends on who is defining what a conservative is. I see good logic that loosening rules against immigration should be a conservative stand.
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