Days before Barack Obama begins his presidency, a new survey has found that Latinos do not believe immigration should be the top priority for the new administration.
Rather, Latinos consider the economy the most important issue, followed by education, healthcare and national security.
Only 31% of Latinos rated immigration as an “extremely important” issue for the president-elect to address after he takes office Tuesday. Meanwhile, 57% of them said the economy was extremely important.
“Latinos are no different from anybody else,” said Mark Hugo Lopez, lead author of the Pew Hispanic Center study, released Thursday. “The economic downturn has impacted Latinos in many ways.”
The housing market collapse and the decline in the construction industry in particular have left many Latinos out of work, Lopez said.
“It’s not that immigration has fallen off the radar entirely,” he said. “It’s that other issues have become relatively more important.” READ FULL STORY
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