It shouldn’t be a surprise that Latinos think of immigration reform as being a significant issue. Even in the many cases where individuals are native-born and of families that have been in the United States for a few generations, the partisan political mood of today pushes the issue to the top of our interests.

ImpreMedia and Latino Decisions commissioned a new poll of Latinos and what interests were of concern, and it put immigration reform at Number One (47 percent said it was their most-significant issue).

THE ISSUE THAT usually comes up in these polls, the economy, came up at Number Two (34 percent think it most significant, and 37 percent said they expect someone in their household, if not themselves, to lose their job to a layoff sometime in the near future).

That factor is often tossed out by the nativist element of our society in a twisted-enough manner to try to claim that immigration reform shouldn’t be considered all that important if even Latinos don’t put it at the top of the list.

And usually, that fact makes sense in that many Latinos are trying to earn a living. Regardless of where on the economic or social ladders of our society they stand, they are interested in working and supporting ourselves.

Immigration technically is an issue that many of us have surpassed.

WHICH IS WHY some are surprised by the latest poll that found immigration reform movin’ on up to the top (not the East Side, as in “The Jeffersonsâ€