Immigration issue takes flight

“In the debate now raging over the USA’s estimated 12 million illegal immigrants, this Pittsburgh suburb of aging strip malls and tidy brick homes seems anything but ground zero.

It has been decades since waves of foreigners came to western Pennsylvania to man the region’s mills and factories. In fact, local officials are worried about the lack of newcomers from other countries.

“One of the reasons Pittsburgh isn’t growing is that we don’t do a good enough job welcoming legal immigrants,” says Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., whose father came from Italy as a child.”

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