Immigration Slipping As a Priority

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Researchers found that "a year and a half after a lengthy, often ran- corous debate over immigration reform filled the chambers of a stalemated Congress, the issue appears to have receded in importance among one of the groups most affected by it-Latinos."

He noted that 75 percent of Hispanics reported that immigration should be a "very important" priority for President Barack Obama, while 88 percept rated it at least as being "important."

"You have to deal with illegal immigration from the demand side as well as the supply side," she told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee during her confirmation hearing. "You have to deal with what is drawing people across the border, and that is a job," said [Janet Napolitano], a former federal prosecutor and state attorney general.

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Immigration Slipping As a Priority

National economic woes have pushed the focus and concern over immigration reform way down the ladder of priorities, a new survey claims.

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