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As we approach the New Hampshire 2008 presidential primary, the immigration issue should remain a key factor to be addressed by all candidates.

The importance of a reformed immigration policy in a broader homeland security strategy has made it a major subject of debate in the 2008 presidential election already. This debate escalated recently surrounding the controversial immigration reform legislation proposed in 2007, that would have granted temporary guest status to millions of illegal immigrants.

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The January 14th issue of Businessweek, features an important article about the future of business under an enforcement only immigration policy.

For years there has been an implicit understanding among businesses that need workers, illegal immigrants willing to do those jobs, communities that benefit from such commerce, and a government that rarely intervened. Now that understanding has been torn apart. Of 1,500 people surveyed in June by the Pew Research Center, 55% said the most effective way to reduce illegal immigration from Mexico is to increase penalties on employers. In a Democratic Presidential debate in November, Barack Obama said: “An employer has more of a chance of getting hit by lightning than being prosecuted for hiring an undocumented worker. That has to change.” All of the candidates, with varying degrees of vigor, have expressed the same sentiment.

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I guess the USCIS have some bad apples as well. The former assistant chief in the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services was convicted yesterday by a federal jury in Alexandria on two felony counts of harboring an illegal alien and encouraging and inducing an illegal to reside in the United States.

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