Posted on 09/21/2010 11:53:51 AM PDT by RC Clayton
Democrats are trying to push the Dream Act through Congress this year, “providing a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants who arrive in the United States before age 16, earn a high school diploma, reside here for at least five years and complete two years of college or military service,” according to the New York Times.
New Rasmussen Reports polling finds that most voters believe children brought to this country illegally who complete two years of college or serve in the military should get a chance at U.S. citizenship. But they also agree that allowing this route to citizenship just encourages more illegal immigration.
Fifty-two percent (52%) of Likely U.S. Voters think a child who is brought here illegally and completes two years of college should get a chance at citizenship. Thirty-six percent (36%) disagree and say they not get that opportunity, and 12% are not sure.
Support is even higher for those who serve honorably in the U.S. military. Seventy-eight percent (78%) say a child brought to this country illegally who is in the military ought to get a chance at citizenship. Only 14% feel otherwise.
However, just 20% think local government should be required to provide a public school education for a child brought into the United States illegally by his or her parents. Sixty-four percent (64%) disagree and say local governments should not be required to educate the children of illegals. Fifteen percent (15%) aren’t sure.
Overall, most voters (55%) say that making it possible for children of illegal immigrants to gain citizenship by attending college will encourage more illegal immigration. Twenty-seven percent (27%) disagree and 18% more are undecided.
Sixty-six percent (66%) of Mainstream voters believe this policy will foster more illegal immigration, but 50% of the Political Class disagree.
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The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on September 16-17, 2010 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
It’s worth noting the difference question wording can make in the response. These voters are expressing support for “a chance” at citizenship.
When voters were asked in October 2007 whether children of illegal immigrants who finish two years of college should be “given” citizenship, 59% said no. But 57% at that time did believe that children of illegal immigrants who serve in the military should be given U.S. citizenship
Fifty-eight percent (58%) of Americans oppose automatic citizenship for a child born in this country to an illegal immigrant.
Voters have consistently said for years that when it comes to immigration reform, gaining control of the border is more important than legalizing the status of undocumented workers already living in the United States.
Republicans and voters not affiliated with either major party believe overwhelmingly that local governments should not be required to provide a public school education for the children of illegal immigrants. Democrats are more narrowly divided on the question.
Most unaffiliated voters agree with most Democrats, however, that a child brought to this country illegally who later completes two years of college should be a given a chance to obtain citizenship. A plurality (49%) of GOP voters disagree.
But 69% of Republicans and 52% of unaffiliateds think such a policy will encourage more illegal immigration. By a 45% to 37% margin, Democrats don’t believe that to be true.
Republicans strongly concur with the others, though, that those who serve in the military should be given a chance for U.S. citizenship.
In general, the Political Class is much more supportive of efforts to make the children of illegal immigrants U.S. citizens than Mainstream voters are.
Seventy-five percent (75%) of all voters say they have been following recent news stories about the Dream Act and immigration reform.
Fifty-four percent (54%) of voters say the U.S. Justice Department should take legal action against cities that provide sanctuary for illegal immigrants. Even more think the federal government should cut off funds to these “sanctuary cities.”
But 56% oppose the Justice Department’s decision to challenge the legality of Arizona’s new immigration law in federal court. Sixty-one percent (61%), in fact, favor passage of a law like Arizona’s in their own state.
By a two-to-one margin, voters believe the policies of the federal government encourage people to enter the United States illegally.
As the country wrestles with a future of historic-level deficits, 67% of voters say that illegal immigrants are a significant strain on the U.S. budget. Sixty-six percent (66%) say the availability of government money and services draws illegal immigrants to the United State
They had a nice Christmas boozer going in Trenton as George Washington was crossing the Delaware.
If Washington saw what a dump Trenton and America has become and is becoming - he probably would have stayed home. Thank evil TV and the idiots who watch it.
Rove Republicans or idiots who watch TV and are brasinwashed by the elites. There are no jobs. Why give an illegal a job in the US military.
Maybe we need more Major Hassan’s to murder more American boys and girls.
That is ludicrous. Rasmussen has consistently shown Americans are against amnesty by and large. However, most Americans are decent enough to not hold children responsible for the actions of their parents.
Hispania was the name given to the Roman province of Spain by the Romans BEFORE America was discovered. People from Hispania could be termed Hispanic or Hispanians I suppose.
In a modern context, “Hispanic” means someone of Spainish American Culture and Hispanola has nothing to do with it.
Even Brazilians are not “Hispanic” as they are Portugese American.
Good point.
Parents break the law, their non-english speaking children already clog up the school system and slow down progress for American children - then we want to reward them with free college or citizenship after military service? Bullshit -
Here is the reality of our current population: This year, the incoming class at the University of Texas is no longer a white majority. The figures are close to 47% white, 27% hispanic, 17% asian, 6% black, and the remainer "other"...Texas is changing quickly into Mexico and offering citizenship will only cause more of an invasion
Once “those people” control your military, they control your country.
THAT the Romans discovered happened with Goths and other Germanic troops recruited to serve in the 300’s and 400’s.
According to Romano-British Chronicles, the Romano-Britons recruited Anglo-Saxon mercenaries to fight for them against the Picts and Scots. I think you know the rest of the story.
Chain migration will be alive and well under the current bill. THAT is the real problem with this idea as currently written.
No just go home and apply to come in Via Immigration channels.
Where do you think the name Hispanolia came from? Irishmen?
College students? Absolutely not.
I’m pretty sure you have to have a green card to join our Armed Forces. Green card holders already go to the head of the line for citizenship if they are in the military. Basically reid wants the military to allow illegals in. I call BS.
Hispaniola has NOTHING to do with Spanish legionnaires fighting in Judaea.
ALSO, only HALF of Hispaniola is Hispanic. - the Dominican Republic. The OTHER half is Haiti which is Creole and French speaking, not Hispanic.
Yeah, I heard that last week. The other thing that hacks me, is the "in state tuition rates" for the illegals.
That is correct. There are a number of green card holders in the military.
Since you ask:
It came from Christopher Columbus, who named the island he discovered "La Espanola," basically, "The Spanish Place." A priest, writing in Latin about the Spanish discoveries in the New World not long after, wrote it as Hispaniola. His books were translated to English pretty quickly and the name Hispaniola stayed intact in the translation and stuck.
Wasn’t asking, it was a rhetorical question...
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