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Once a hot issue, immigrants overlooked by campaigns

They are everywhere on Long Island - cashing checks in Hempstead, sharing multifamily houses in Brentwood, trimming hedges in Southampton.

And yet they are nowhere in this year's presidential campaign. Undocumented immigrants - the subject of so much discussion just a year ago - have been forgotten in the rush to discuss America's economic woes.

Immigrants flocked to Long Island during...

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