For years, American politics has centered around a few major issues. The war, economy, taxes, cultural values and immigration. Most elections are fought and won around one of these major areas.
An economic downturn is imminent and has been a 7 year cycle according to leading economists. People get out of a bad economy and tend to forget in 2 years and start a cycle that cannot sustain itself and brings about another economic correction. In 2001 it was the dot com crash, now its the mortgage and banking sector.
Given that the elections are right in the middle of the economic correction (I don’t like the word downturn), economy is the primary focus on the elections. Which means the other major issues are neglected for the most part.
Both Barack Obama and John McCain started their campaigns by heavily concentrating on immigration reforms but you don’t hear them talk about it any more. All they talk about now is economy and foreign policy.
This is in fact good for immigrants. This takes away the big amount of focus on us and puts it back on things that really matter for everyone - jobs, credit and money. And for once, immigrants are not blamed for it.
That’s a good thing.
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1 Gale Petersen // Nov 21, 2008 at 4:53 pm
The BNA Daily Report was forwarded to members of the rise up list. It begins, ” T. Alexander Aleinikoff and Mariano-Florentino “Tino” Cuellar were named to the immigration “policy working group” to develop immigration policy proposals and plans for the new administration, President-elect Obama’s transition team announced Nov. 19. . .”
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