"The gay-lesbian marriage of this election"

The mexican immigration debate is becoming a huge issue politically. It is going to be the "gay-lesbian marriage of this election", according to Angeles Ortega-Moore, director of the Latin American Coalition in Charlotte, N.C.. People are already touting this as "going to be the hottest issue, maybe next to Iraq, in the presidential election in two years." There are two problems with illegal immigration: the huge amount of illegal immigrants already in the U.S., and securing the Mexican-American border to prevent more from entering in the future. At the moment our federal government has only taken steps to secure the border, which some think will not stop illegal immigration at all. The problem is becoming more political than anything else in the eyes of some. Meanwhile others recognize the complexity of the situation and the sensitivity that must be used when making decisions concering illegal immigrants, since the U.S. is affected so directly by the immigrant population already in the U.S.

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