Illegal immigration might not be as high a priority here, where I'm surrounded by Hispanic democrats and I can tell you, they support the war and the troops. Gas , we all grumble about but how can you control the price of what someone is selling? We don't have a cold winter coming up to worry about though.
I believe there are people (even here on FR) that, like the situation our President is in and don't want him to "fix things". I'm not one of them. As the poster above mentioned, once he starts discussing our concerns and lays out a good plan, a lot will rally around him again.
Ask Richard Nixon! LOL!
He already spoke and laid out his plan, a path to citizenship, no fence, no national guard = No More Votes From Me For Anyone Who Supports Him in his plan.