I'm just relaying the feelings of the consistent 70-75% of Americans who in poll after poll express their opinions on the subject of illegal immigration by saying yes to improved border security, yes to improved interior enforcement of our immigration laws, and yes to cracking down on employers who hire illegal aliens.
In actuality, the issue barely registers a bleep on the radar of electoral issues, never has.
The subject of illegal immigration is integrated into many other issues. Illegal immigration affects jobs, public school overcrowding/student performance, pollution/enviormental issues, medical costs, hospital emergency room overcrowding/closures, housing, crime/jails, entitlement costs, etc.
You stop anybody on the street and ask them what's more important to them: keeping their job or having our government round up illegal aliens. I'd estimate about 99.9% of the people you ask would say keeping their job is more important to them, as it should be. Americans tend to place more importance on issues that affect them directly as opposed to issues that affect the country as a whole.
The Republican Party knows the answer they'll get, if they ask their constituents about illegal immigration.
That's why they refuse to ask!
The question wasn't on the last questionnaire the RNC sent out, but the answer came back to them, in black magic marker, on a lot of them.
LOL!