Now They Tell Us: Immigration a Hot Topic Post-Election
Published:
Thu, Dec 10th 2020 @ 9:35 am EST by Jeremy Beck
Brian Norris and Anita Kumar join the throng of political observers noting the palatable absence of immigration during the 2020 campaign:
Immigration dominated the 2016 presidential campaign, but Joe Biden's promise during the second debate to "within a hundred days ... send to the United States Congress a pathway to citizenship for over 11 million undocumented people" was the first high-profile focus on the issue in the 2020 campaign.
Trump made immigration the centerpiece of his 2016 campaign, as well as the 2018 midterm elections. But in 2020, he talked less about the issue, in large part because the election was overtaken by the pandemic, which has killed over 265,000 Americans and decimated the economy.
https://www.numbersusa.com/blog/now-they-tell-us-immigration-hot-topic-post-election
