I could not disagree more.
In order to get elected a politician must get the votes of a majority. Any politician who fails to get that vote becomes a non politician. You can play on the margins...perhaps only 40% support a candidates position on issue A, but 60% support his position on issue B so it equals out, but the people don't elect politicians who promise to do what the people don't want done.
I think either the people really don't care about immigration as an issue, or other pressing issues like taxes, terrorism, and abortion supersede illegal immigration as an issue.
I know you disagree. Would you care to elaborate your statement?
I would be very interested to know what you consider your 5 top issues are? Mine are:
1 Life
2 Defense
3 Taxes
4 Guns
5 Trade
To be perfectly honest I could vote for a gun grabber or trade isolationist if they were strong on abortion, defense, and taxes and the rat was deficient in all categories as usual.
This is true, and has been for a long time.
Watch for big changes in the future. People can be fooled and lied too only so many times, until they finally realize they've been had. Even those the have not been paying attention, are now attentive.
The change is coming, and politics, the two entrenched party's and business as usual will be forced to change by the people. The mood of the people is changing, and many are very unhappy with much of what is happening today, regarding supporting half the world, liberal policies, the borders and our standard of living.