Top issue for Hispanics? Hint: It’s not immigration

*Not that you’d be able to tell by mainstream media reports and political posturing, not that it’s a big secret to be discovered, it’s something Latinos know too well: the economy and education are the top issues. The big reveal? Latinos are not one-dimensional, and immigration may be crowding out other issues. VL

By Jens Manuel Krogstad, Pew Research Center

A broad overhaul of the nation’s immigration laws has been debated and discussed among policy makers for a dozen years, but Congress has yet to pass a bill. Last month, several Hispanic advocacy leaders criticized the president for policies that have contributed to the more than three million immigrants deported since 2004. Yet now, some Latino leaders are wondering if immigration reform is perhaps “crowding out other issues facing the Latino community.”

Immigration reform “now occupies almost all the Latino policy agenda, sucking up, as one colleague recently put it, all the oxygen on Latino issues,” according to a recent commentary from Angelo Falcón, National Institute for Latino Policy president.

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