Illegal immigrants slip as hot voter issue - “With Sen. John McCain clinching the Republican nomination, immigration essentially has become a non-issue in presidential debates”

Once billed as the hot-button issue for the 2008 presidential race, pollsters and pundits expect illegal immigration to fade from the spotlight heading into the November general election.

With Sen. John McCain clinching the Republican nomination, immigration essentially has become a non-issue in presidential debates, said Mark Jones, a Rice University political science professor. The Arizona senator co-sponsored a bipartisan immigration bill that would have granted legal status to illegal immigrants in the U.S. — a proposal that alienated a portion of his party base.

That means the three remaining leading candidates for president — including Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama — have supported a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants.”*

*From: http://www.chron.com
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