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Time poll: half of Americans favor deporting all illegal immigrants back to their home countries
Instapundit/Time ^ | 1/29/05

Posted on 01/29/2006 8:53:34 AM PST by Brian Mosely

Via Instapundit:

Almost two-thirds of Americans (63%) consider illegal immigration a “very serious” or “extremely serious” problem in the United States, according to a TIME Poll. The majority (74%) believes the U.S. is not doing enough to secure its borders. . . .

TIME’s Poll shows that half (50%) of Americans favor deporting all illegal immigrants back to their home countries (45% oppose). Three-in-four (76%) favor allowing illegal immigrants in the U.S. to earn citizenship if they learn English, have a job and pay taxes. . . . Meanwhile 700,000 undocumented immigrants from around the world continue to enter the U.S. each year, according to the Pew Hispanic Center.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; borders; citizenship; deportation; illegals; immigrantlist; immigration; poll
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Article in TIME is here:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1154166,00.html

1 posted on 01/29/2006 8:53:38 AM PST by Brian Mosely
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To: Brian Mosely

And I'm sure the poll isn't skewed to the right.


2 posted on 01/29/2006 8:54:44 AM PST by Fruitbat
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To: Brian Mosely
allowing illegal immigrants in the U.S. to earn citizenship if they learn English, have a job and pay taxes.

Imagine.

3 posted on 01/29/2006 8:56:02 AM PST by Fruitbat
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To: Fruitbat

But is IS skewed to represent Hildabeast's position, to be sure.


4 posted on 01/29/2006 8:58:15 AM PST by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: Brian Mosely

Round em up, pick em up, head em out ...back to the border. I would support with my dollars a fund to round them all up and ship them back to their native country. And forget about the dribble of, they are just doing it to support their families, it is THEIR countries responsibility to provide them a job, not Uncle Sam.


6 posted on 01/29/2006 8:58:33 AM PST by Meadow Muffin
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To: Brian Mosely
Only 63%?
7 posted on 01/29/2006 8:59:50 AM PST by MrBambaLaMamba (Buy 'Allah' brand urinal cakes - If you can't kill the enemy at least you can piss on their god)
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To: Brian Mosely; gubamyster; HiJinx
First, let's plug the hole in our sinking boat. Then, start bailing.

The Duncan Hunter 15' Fence

8 posted on 01/29/2006 9:03:19 AM PST by Travis McGee (--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
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To: Meadow Muffin
Round em up, pick em up, head em out ...back to the border.

Yes. Plus, the illegal's ability to immigrate to the US in the future would be revoked. I believe that is on the books presently but, of course, is not being enforced.
9 posted on 01/29/2006 9:04:30 AM PST by Mulch (tm)
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To: Brian Mosely
TIME’s Poll shows that half (50%) of Americans favor deporting all illegal immigrants back to their home countries (45% oppose).

Okay, let's start with the 50% who support deportation of illegals.

Now subtract from that 50% the voters who are Democrats and yes even liberals who want to see illegals deported. What you have left is a position that the Republican party won't support.

The numbers are puny.

We need more people who support the position to deport illegals. The politicians would follow.

10 posted on 01/29/2006 9:05:48 AM PST by FreeReign
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Sounds good to me. Where can I send my check to start the ball rolling?


11 posted on 01/29/2006 9:06:41 AM PST by garyhope (Happy, healthy, prosperous New Year to all good Freepers and our brave military.)
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half of Americans favor deporting all illegal immigrants back to their home countries

The other half are the illegal aliens.

12 posted on 01/29/2006 9:08:19 AM PST by martin_fierro (Hines Ward is my son! OK, not really, but it'd be nice.)
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To: Brian Mosely

Has to be more than half. I know Democrats who support this.


13 posted on 01/29/2006 9:09:19 AM PST by blueminnesota
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Time poll: half of Americans favor deporting all illegal immigrants back to their home countries

Of course. And the other half wants to get them to the welfare office and registered Democrat.

14 posted on 01/29/2006 9:11:09 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: FreeReign
We need more people who support the position to deport illegals. The politicians would follow.

More people would be in support of deportation if they understood that the law now is DEPORTATION for illegally entering the country. Since it doesn't happen people assume it's because it isn't yet law.

15 posted on 01/29/2006 9:12:50 AM PST by WatchingInAmazement ("Nothing is more expensive than cheap labor," prof. Vernon Briggs, labor economist Cornell Un.)
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To: Brian Mosely

If the illegals only knew that Cuba and Venezuela are the true workers' paradises . . . .


16 posted on 01/29/2006 9:12:57 AM PST by JCEccles
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To: Fruitbat

I don't think so, the issue crosses party lines.


17 posted on 01/29/2006 9:12:57 AM PST by television is just wrong (Our sympathies are misguided with illegal aliens...)
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To: Brian Mosely
I think what you need to do is to have workers permits BUT they can only be obtained from the home country. I think once that is passed you can deport anyone who doesn't have a valid workers permit.

Give a 6 months notice that the law will go into effect and anyone caught without a valid workers permit will not only be deported, but they will never be allowed back in the country. That way you don't have the expense of rounding them up and deporting them. If they have a current job, their employers can attest that they have a job waiting and they should be immediately issued permits FROM THEIR OWN COUNTRY AND ONLY IF THEY ARE THERE IN PERSON!

18 posted on 01/29/2006 9:13:54 AM PST by McGavin999 (If Intelligence Agencies can't find leakers, how can we expect them to find terrorists?)
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To: martin_fierro

LOL. Ain't that the truth!


19 posted on 01/29/2006 9:14:27 AM PST by Right Brother
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To: FreeReign
"The numbers are puny."

And fake.

20 posted on 01/29/2006 9:14:33 AM PST by F16Fighter
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