Posted on 07/23/2009 3:17:07 PM PDT by reaganaut1
Nearly two-out-of-three California voters (64%) say illegal immigrants put a significant strain on the state budget as lawmakers struggle to close a $26 billion deficit.
A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of California voters shows that just 25% say illegal immigrants are not a major strain on the state budget. Eleven percent (11%) are not sure.
Adults under 30 are less likely to believe illegal immigrants are a budget strain than those who are older.
Eighty-eight percent (88%) of Republicans and 67% of voters not affiliated with either major party see illegal immigrants as a serious budget strain. Democrats are evenly divided on the question.
Fifty-five percent (55%) of California voters oppose the budget deal worked out by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and state legislators from both parties. The legislature is expected to vote on the deal today.
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Sixty-five percent (65%) of all voters in the state believe the availability of government money and services draws illegal immigrants to California. Twenty-two percent (22%) disagree and say the money and services are not a draw to illegal immigrants.
Men believe this more than women, whites more than blacks and those of other races.
Eighty-seven percent (87%) of GOP voters and 66% of unaffiliateds see state services and money as a magnet for illegal immigrants. Among Democrats, 49% agree, but 39% don’t think this is true.
Children of illegal immigrants who are born in the United States are eligible for welfare payments, but California voters are more closely divided over whether those benefits should be cut off because of the state budget crisis. Forty-seven percent (47%) say the welfare payments to the children of illegals should be stopped
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64% of voters may say that now, but the figure won’t be the same if “comprehensive immigration reform” is passed.
In other news, 36% of Calfornia voters should be kept away from the ballot box.
In other news, it has been discovered public pay phone use is on the decline.
The other 36% ARE the illegals....
This is what frustrates me if 64% of Californians believe this then it is not just whites who think illegal immigration is a problem. Don’t hold your breath though that anything will be done about it.
In other news, the sky is blue today and the sun will set in the west.
Duh!
WHAT THEY THINK DOES NOT MATTER. ONE LITTLE BIT: 60 percent of them approved Proposition 187 in 1994. It was challenged in the courts and Gray Davis did not appeal the lower court ruling when it got to the 9th Circuit, although Pete Wilson had signed it into law. So much for the will of the people in California. The only people who have any rights at all there are illegals. The place has been turned into a Third World hell hole, especially my home town, LA.
The same 64% have their lawns done by “mexicans”.
No, it will go lower. The voters polled after rushed naturalization will be diluted by newly minted citizens who don't care. They'll say everything is fine (or at least vote that way).
Paging Captain Obvious!!!
“The other 36% ARE the illegals”
ROTFLOL! Close.
I love FReeper wit ;-)
There goes the Idiot Youth vote again...totally clueless.
The people of California finally figured it out.
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