You know what I am saying: it's not the NUMBER ONE ISSUE in this country.
One thing you, and many others, don't want to acknowledge, is that the one issue, immigration, drastically affects two of the top three in your list: illegal immigration burdens the economy in a multitude of ways...the costs of schools, hospitals, roads, jails, welfare costs...it drives up the cost of housing by using up limited housing stocks, etc.
And it most certainly is a very important part of national defense and the war. If we can't secure the homeland, we're going to eventually take hits that will make 9-11 look small by comparison.
Even your hero, George W. Bush and his spokesmen have said the same...remember the talk about "mushroom clouds"?
It's hard to understand why they can't see how dangerous an open border is.