Bachmann, Romney Tackle Immigration on Campaigns

Friday, 02 Sep 2011 12:07 PM
By Henry J. Reske

Republican presidential candidates want to talk jobs and the economy but the voters want to hear about immigration. In stop after stop, the candidates find that when the question and answer session begins the first up is border security, The Washington Post reported.

Mitt Romney, at a town hall in Keene, N.H., and Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., at one in South Carolina, both expected to spend their time on the economy, jobs and the deficit. Both instead found topic No. 1 immigration, the Post reported.

Republican primary voters have brought up border security in back yards, opera houses and recreation halls in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. “Immigration is not even close to the top issue for most Republicans today, but it is an issue that is heavy with symbolic importance to Republican voters,â€