First you are assuming that people are screaming on the water cooler about illegal immigration, I do not know many people who are screaming about it and I travel all over the country frequently on business trips and I meet many people and no one is screaming about it, they have a lot of other priority political and national security issues that concern them.
You are assuming that if Hillary make a promise on illegal immigration many people including conservatives are going to believe her. You yourself is saying that this will be phony promise by Hillary to attract vote, so unless you are assuming that people are less smarter than you are, they will also find she is lying and playing politics on this issue. Do not underestimate the intelligence of the American voters and their capability of seeing lies, fake and flip flops, the 2004 election was a great proof of that.
Will you vote for Hillary Clinton if she make some phony promise on illegal immigration and you know it is a phony promise?
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"First you are assuming that people are screaming on the water cooler about illegal immigration, I do not know many people who are screaming about it and I travel all over the country frequently on business trips and I meet many people and no one is screaming about it, they have a lot of other priority political and national security issues that concern them."
Are you meeting the people that are hurt by illegal immigration, or the people that are helped by illegal immigration?
Business owners benefit from cheap workers. Upper middle class families benefit from cheap domestic help. There are some people who think there's nothing wrong with illegal immigration, as long as they benefit from it.
Go to rural Iowa, and learn how meat-packing jobs went from being good-paying jobs to minimum wage jobs with the importation of illegal immigrants. Go to rural Georgia, and see how illegal immigrants have taken over the good-paying construction jobs. Go to Orange County, California, or Suffolk County, New York, and see how illegal immigrants are building shantytowns in suburban neighborhoods.
But you are right.. there's an elite that benefits from illegal immigration. The question is whether our party wants to represent this elite, or the average American.