Thread: Cafferty: How important is the issue of immigration to you?

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FROM CNN’s Jack Cafferty:

For the last two years, May first has been the day that the estimated twelve million illegal immigrants in this country have the opportunity to rally for immigration reform. Two years ago, the turnout nationwide was staggering. More than one million people packing the streets and bringing traffic to a standstill. Chicago alone had four hundred thousand people. But yesterday they were nowhere to be found.

In Tucson, Arizona, only about five hundred turned out yesterday, compared to twelve thousand last year. In Los Angeles, a few thousand, nothing close to the five hundred thousand in 2006. And the streets in Phoenix were empty yesterday–no signs of the activists and banners of the last two years.

Gone too were the calls for a nationwide boycott of businesses and work. The Spanish-language D.J.’s who had heavily promoted previous marches, for the most part, stuck to regular programming yesterday.

So why the change? Some say growing deportation fears kept folks home. The United States deported almost three hundred thousand people last year, a 44 percent increase over the previous year. Others say it was because of the stalled effort in Congress to revamp the immigration law.

And then there’s the heated race for the White House. The immigration issue seems to be lost in other political headlines. The top concern for voters overwhelmingly is the economy…not immigration.

Here’s my question to you: Is illegal immigration less important to you than it was two years ago?

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They already closed the comment section! Of course, illegal immigration is more important today than 2 years ago, especially in this economy! We can barely afford to support ourselves, much less have to worry about IA's! If people don't realize the two are directly related, they are too dumb to vote!