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Immigration: The Key to Winning Elections?

*This article has been posted by Rich Basas both on FPA's Migration Blog as well as the Mexico Blog this week.
Illegal immigration may be one of the hot button issues for the next Presidential election and will favor neither party in the process. In the Democratic party debates televised widely among American networks this past weekend, two things were made clear. First, immigration will likely be a key issue in the next election, and second, no one has a clear idea on how to handle the situation as there is no clear solution to the problem. This has lead to many candidates being seen as slightly differing on the issue in insignificant amounts with the exception of Republican Rep. Tom Tancredo whose recent campaign commercials make reference "that Islamic terrorists roam free in the United States because of an unsecured border". 

Read the full article on FPA's Migration blog here.

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