Public support for extending legal rights to illegal immigrant children bottoms out

Hotair ^ | 10/02/2014 | Jazz Shaw

[SeekAndFind]

Following the earlier flood of children coming across our southern border earlier this year, there were a number of pundits who seemed to feel that the situation would serve as a benison for liberal immigration reform advocates. After all, who could fail to empathize with the plight of children? (As an aside, am I the only one who reads anything about this story today and feels like it was ages ago, given the deluge of other pressing stories since then?) But the situation has not gone away. The children are still here in large numbers and the government is yet to formulate a long term plan.

Most of what we’ve heard thus far involves millions of dollars for lawyers to represent them, private facilities to keep them in and public schools to enroll them for education.But how is public feeling about it at this point? According to some of the most recent polling, not all that great.

Voters overwhelmingly reject extending legal protections to the new illegal immigrant children who surged across the border this year, according to a new Rasmussen Reports poll released Wednesday.

Less than a third of voters say they want illegal immigrant children to be housed in their home states, and 53 percent said the children shouldn’t be allowed to attend taxpayer-supported public schools.

The Supreme Court has ruled that all children, regardless of legal status, are entitled to primary and secondary education in public schools, leaving some districts to face a surge of children with poor or nonexistent English language skills and other psychological trauma issues.

It may be easy for amnesty advocates to point to these numbers as evidence of lack of sympathy or some form of ugly American indifference. In reality though, this is nothing more than an instinct for self preservation.

[GraceG]

Bottoming out like a bungee jumper... soon will start the rebound...

[ne1410s]

It’s pretty cool how they KNOW it won’t go any lower! How do they do that?

[precisionshootist]

"Bottoming out like a bungee jumper... soon will start the rebound..."

Not with Enterovirus and other infectious diseases spreading like wildfire. All of which are being brought here by disease ridden invaders and being intentionally spread all over the country by our own conspiring government.

[Slyfox]

Why does this subject remind me of those short movies exposing communism I saw as a kid in school which showed people being forced to take people into their homes by order of the government?

[Bon of Babble]

No sympathy when schools are using scarce resource to cater to them - at the expense of American children.

[Buckeye McFrog]

The Supreme Court has ruled that all children, regardless of legal status, are entitled to primary and secondary education in public schools,

In one fell swoop seizing the Power of the Purse away not only from the Legislative Branch, but also from states and local school boards.

[353FMG]

It’s only faaaaaair that Americans suffer the same diseases that third world citizens contract, don’t you think?

We should all have equal opportunities.

[The_Media_never_lie]

The children are still here in large numbers and the government is yet to formulate a long term plan.

With just about all America's major problems you could say the same thing: the government is yet to formulate a plan. Some actually have fairly easy solutions.