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The real question is why the other candidates didn't capitalize on the opportunity. Immigration, legal and illegal, affects every major challenge facing this country.

Why are we importing 1.2 million legal permanent immigrants a year and 640,000 guest workers annually while we have the lowest labor participation rates in 38 years? Fewer native born Americans are working today than in 2000 despite an increase of 25 million in the workforce, two thirds of whom are the native born.

Why haven't the other candidates highlighted the trail of death and destruction wrought by illegal aliens? GAO did a 71 page study in 2011 detailing the statistics including 55,000 criminal aliens in federal prisons and 296,000 in state and local jails? It was costing1.3 billion a year in incarceration costs. Over 3 million crimes were committed including 25,000 jailed for homicide.

Instead, the MSM, Dems, and the GOPe paint a benign, sympathetic picture of the lawbreakers who left millions of American victims in their wake. Trump is just stating the obvious and it comes as a surprise that it is resonating.

The real question is why the other candidates didn't capitalize on the opportunity. Immigration, legal and illegal, affects every major challenge facing this country.

One word: PANDERING.

Republicans mistakenly believe that if they just play nice and go along with the Democrats on immigration that somewhow that will translate into votes for them.

The problem with that thinking is that it ignores the cultural socio-economic reality of hispanics and latin american's who in their own country, view the Government as the source of all wealth and prosperity.

When they come here, that thinking DOES NOT CHANGE.

The sooner Republican's (the "stupid party") recognizes that fact and adopt your recommendation that they capitalize on the illegal immigration issue the better off they'd be.

But they're too stupid to actually think and look at the cultural socio-economic reality from which hispanics and latin american's lived under prior to coming here.

Then again, that's why I call the Republican's the "stupid party."

The real question is why the other candidates didn't capitalize on the opportunity.

It's a marvel to me as well. You'd think the political genes would kick in and a few of 'em at least would think, "Hey! He's hit a nerve! I'll say that too!"

Then again, the current lot of GOP-e wannabe presidents might be so neutered that they just can't bring themselves to make those nasty, but truthful, statements.