Well, I did listen to his Presidential bid announcement. It was about 40 minutes and this is all he said about the illegal immigration issue:
“I would build a great wall, and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me, and I’ll build them very inexpensively, I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall.”
Now, go look at the speech transcript here: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/transcript-donald-trump-2016-presidential-announcement-article-1.2260117
If you printed the transcript, it would be 20 pages long and this sentence is included after he talks about Obamacare, how bad repub candidates are, more Obamacare, making the “brand” of the US great again, getting jobs back from china, debt with china, how dumb our leaders are, tariffs, china advancing militarily, tariff against Ford in Mexico, weakening military, weakening infrastructure, how rich he is, his wealth, more about his wealth, our high debt again, THEN THIS SINGLE SENTENCE, then immediately into ISIS, 2nd amendment, then trashing Jeb and a little line about airports.
That is his list of priorities at the time of his announcement, and yes, I consider one sentence that was so late into the speech, to be a throw away line. It wasn’t until the press grabbed that line and started hammering it that Trump made the “Mexico is sending us their criminals” point. That is when he realized that it was a winning issue with the Conservative base, so he started using it as his focus.
I give him credit for picking up on that, but if we want to be truthful, illegal immigration is not the reason WHY he decided to run and it wasn’t his focus at all. It became his focus AFTER he realized it was a winning issue.
So, your argument is that his immigration point is a “throw away line,” based on the order it appeared in his speech? Excuse me for stating that your position is a bit weak.