Immigration Chronicles: Reasons why illegal immigration is being ignored

Immigration Chronicles: Reasons why illegal immigration is being ignored:

"Reasons why illegal immigration is being ignored

In our most recent post, we called out the presidential candidates for not going there on illegal immigration. We're not hearing anything on the issue from the men and women seeking to take residence in the White House next year.

Well, we need to offer the other side of this equation. A CCN/Opinion Research poll released today sheds some insight on why John McCain and Barack Obama might not be so excited to debate immigration.

The poll, conducted Sept. 5-7, asked 1,022 Americans which issue will be most important when they decide how to vote for president.

Unsurprisingly, the no. 1 issue was the economy for 56 percent of Americans.
The war in Iraq was second at 13 percent; health care was 12 percent; terrorism was 11 percent.

And rounding out the top five issues? You guessed it: illegal immigration. Only 6 percent of Americans named it their most important issue."