If its Reuters its WRONG.
yes another misleading poll.
If we ask people about a true guest worker program. Once which is NOT liked to illegal aliens AND is not a conversion to legal citizenship then most would support it as a LIMITED PROGRAM. Guest means guest. Guests GO HOME.
If it is convertable to citizenship then all you have is the current green card where a permanent resident who has an "anticipation of returning to their home country" can change their mind and become a US Citizen by application.
The use of the words 'Guest Worker' is part of what frustrates me most about this. A genuine guest worker program would be made up of actual guests; i.e. people who eventually go home. And it would make no sense to allow them to bring family with them while working, as that would only serve to anchor them to the US and make it less likely that they'd willingly leave.
Now, if one thinks that is cold, then fine, but they shouldn't play on what the word 'guest' puts into the mind of the public when trying to sell their agenda. They should be upfront and honest about it. They should say that they favor a massive increase in (already large-scale) permanent legal immigration.
That the less-than-attractive aspects of these 'comprehensive' reform bills rarely get exposed by the press is no surprise, and its no wonder that they poll so well since people aren't given all the information. I mean, (as lonewacko said), would the public favor the 'path to citizenship' if they knew what that would ultimately mean? What would they say if told by the pollster the following; 'by the way, thanks to chain migration, the path to citizenship for current illegals and future guest workers will result in tens of millions more legal immigrants over that which would be admitted under current law.' Would they say yes to the 'path to citizenship' then?
We'll probably never know, because Gallup, Quinnipiac, and Zogby aren't going to ask them, and because the sponsors of comprehensive' reform aren't going to bother informing us rubes of that little fact, and neither will the media, which is hopeleslly biased in favor of mass immigration.