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Illegal immigration may shape Tennessee elections
Loading ...Illegal immigration is emerging as one of the key issues in this year’s state elections, with Tennessee Republicans planning to make the topic a pillar of their program to sweep state legislative and Congressional elections.
State GOP leaders say illegal immigration — along with the economy and criticism of the Democratic health-care reform plan in Washington — will be one of their main areas of focus in the fall, even in races for the state legislature, which historically has made few attempts to set immigration policy.
The plan means that Tennessee will continue to be among the battleground states nationally in the continuing debate over immigration, despite what experts say is an apparently declining immigrant population here. Though nationwide in scope, the issue appears to resonate particularly deeply with Tennesseans, thrusting the state to the forefront of the debate alongside Arizona, California, Florida and other states that have far larger illegal immigrant populations.
“There is something going on here that is not immediately apparent,” said Gary Gerstle, a history professor at Vanderbilt University who tracks public sentiment on immigration.
Continue Reading at The Tennessean.
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