Posted on 07/09/2013 1:26:40 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A majority of Hispanic voters think legal status to illegal immigrants should be granted only after a goal of stopping 90 percent of future illegal immigration has been acheived, according to a new survey by GOP pollster John McLaughlin.
By a margin of 60 percent to 34 percent, registered Hispanic voters said they supported granting legal status to illegal immigrants “only when the 90% goal is reached.” Hispanic adults backed the proposal by a nearly identical margin — 60 percent to 32 percent.
The proposal offered in the poll is even more hawkish than the one put forward by Senator John Cornyn (R., Texas), who offered an amendment to the Gang of Eight immigration bill that would have required a 90 percent border-apprehension rate before illegal immigrants, having already been granted legal status under the legislation, could apply for citizenship.
Cornyn’s amendment, however, was rejected by the Gang and its supporters in favor of the “border surge” amendment from Senators Bob Corker (R., Tenn.) and John Hoeven (R., N.D.), which establishes a 90 percent apprehension rate as a guideline that has no bearing on the granting of legal status or citizenship. The Congressional Budget Office estimated that even with the Corker-Hoeven amendment, the Gang of Eight bill would only reduce future illegal immigration by 33 percent to 50 percent.
Among the poll’s other notable findings:
By a margin of 56 percent to 40 percent, Hispanic voters oppose allowing illegal immigrants to obtain federal benefits, including Obamacare benefits, “while they are going through the legalization process and before the 90% goal is reached.”
When asked to choose which of four issues — the economy, immigration reform, education, or health care — is most important to them, registered Hispanic voters said immigration reform was their lowest priority. Just 31 percent ranked the issue first or second, compared with 62 percent for the economy, 57 percent for health care, and 45 percent for education. Non-registered voters, on the other hand, ranked immigration reform as their highest priority.
Generally speaking, registered Hispanic voters were far more likely to support tougher security and enforcement measures than non-registered voters. For example, 64 percent of registered voters said they supported employment verification to determine if job applicants are lawful residents, compared with just 46 percent of non-registered voters. Additionally, 55 percent of registered voters backed increased border-security measures (fencing, drones, police, etc.), compared with 45 percent of non-registered voters.
The Republican party definitely has problems with Hispanic voters. For example, 65 percent of voters said they think the GOP discriminates against Hispanics, and 62 percent said they don’t think the GOP “cares about people like you.” Fifty-nine percent said they think Republicans want to stop immigration because they want to keep Hispanics out of the country.
However, only 29 percent of registered Hispanic voters said they would never vote for a Republican member of Congress. Voters were split on whether they believed that “new forces” within the GOP, such as Senator Marco Rubio (R., Fla.), are “fighting for immigration reform and fair treatment for Latinos” (47 percent), or whether the GOP “is the same old Republican Party and is as prejudiced as always against Latinos” (42 percent).
So what do we do with the millions who are already here?
Operation Wetback 2.0.
Yeah Wetback will work. It will tie up our court system with millions of cases waiting to be resolved.
Why can’t the establishment GOP understand that they would get more respect, and votes, from Hispanics if they would be strong on securing the border?
Operation outsource border security to south korea....
They use automated turrets....
Nothing. Those with legs will know what to do.
Stop employers from hiring them, stop the welfare, stop the entitlements, stop the dual language BS and they will go home on their own.
That’s the solution I agree with.
There was a word for it (which caused the one who used it some grief ): SELF DEPORTATION.
Close the door behind them and fix the 14th to prevent anchor babies.
That’s nice. They still vote Democrat.
That is easy. Deny them standing and ship ‘em out. It works for the SCOTUS.
Give them stuff. The whole country should look like a San Antonio supermarket on a sunday night spanish speaking only lines into the aisles going nowhere with cashiers chatting it up with multi pile shoppers using foodstamps for this group, mexican credit cards for that pile sending kids, wives, uncles nack for more stuff shoving through
Everyone, managers included, gleeful to ignore the local veteran who used to grace the town with patronage and assistance
Just let them stay here and we’ll keep hiving them stuff. Heck we’ll learn their language because we re nice. The law is mean our sytem is broken
Yeah, but 100% of the illegals are against it, and that is the voting block everyone is really after.
If you take the Enforcement Approach, you sanction employers who hire. No jobs, no draw. They'll pack up and leave of their own accord.
Another fake poll...
GOP forgets one thing...legals hate illegals
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