Usa Talk Radio

Immigration will be my focus for the show today and after watching the first of the televised Presidential debates yesterday, August 6th, it is clear that immigration is finally being recognized as being a significant issue for the politicians who are seeking the Presidency. However, even with this new focus, largely the result of some fiery statements by candidate Donald Trump, most of the focus was on illegal immigration and the US/Mexican border.   Even with this new interest in immigration, when a list of the major concerns Americans have is compiled, the economy, jobs and national security generally surpass immigration. In reality immigration is a primary factor in all of those concerns- if not the primary factor. I wrote about this in my August 4, 2015 FrontPage Magazine article, “Immigration and the Presidential Debates- The burning question on voters' minds.”   Governor Chris Christy really got into a spirited “one on one” with Senator Rand Paul about the Patriot Act and the NSA. Governor Christie