Immigration as a political issue lives mostly in the shadows in the Madison area.
Sure, there’s the march up West Washington Avenue to the Capitol on May 1 with a few hundred immigrants and their supporters calling for reform.
Sure, there were recent meetings with Madison Mayor Paul Soglin to organize the business community for reform and with a representative of Republican Sen. Ron Johnson to throw cold water on the hopes for reform.
But immigration is not the hot-button issue here that it is in many states.