Posted on 06/10/2014 12:21:03 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
More than 60 percent of Americans back a pathway to citizenship for immigrants living here illegally winning support from majorities of Democrats, Republicans and independents, according to a sweeping new poll to be released Tuesday.
When it comes to undocumented immigrants, 62 percent of Americans believe they should be allowed to gain citizenship if they meet certain requirements, while 17 percent would support green cards but not citizenship for them. Meanwhile, 19 percent think the undocumented immigrants should be deported.
Split down by party, 70 percent of Democrats, 61 percent of political independents and 51 percent of Republicans said they supported a pathway to citizenship with requirements, according to the survey. The poll did not define what those specific conditions are, but requirements can include background checks and payments of fines and back taxes.
The data from the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute and the center-left Brookings Institution demonstrates a level of support for immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship that cuts across party lines. But how to deal with the undocumented population in the United States, now estimated at 11.4 million, is a question that has long divided House Republicans.
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I’ve met two who believed this crap.
In five min of discussion I changed their mind.
Its all about controlling the message.
I support a pathway to citizenship for illegals.
1. Go home.
2. Apply for a residency visa.
3. Wait in line.
4. Learn English.
5. If and when you are legally admitted, apply for citizenship.
Did illegal aliens get to vote in this sweeping new poll?
BS!
Keep believing these polls are fake and untrustworthy and then you/we pull our heads from the sand and wonder what happened to our Nation.
Sitting around saying “it isn’t true” is ridiculous. Glad my office didn’t prosecute that way. Facts are facts whether you like them or not. Once you know the facts, only then can you do something about it.
Cloward-Piven At The Border
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3165430/posts
0’s taking it in a new direction.
Yep. I call BS.
Who did they poll? The aholes at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce?
I’ve completely given up on the border issue. This country doesn’t give a sh*t about safeguarding itself, so making it an issue anymore has become pointless.
Freakin BIG BULLCRAP!!!!!!!!!!!
X2. Less than 8 years ago, people shut down the Congressional switchboards, saying “Not No, but HELL NO!” to relaxing our immigration laws.
I don’t believe this poll for a minute.
Exactly right. Everyone I know is seething at these illegal scum overrunning our country.
Another lie is the 11.4 million. The people I know around the country ALL report swarms of spainish speaking illegals everywhere!
It is likely 40million are here.
If Amnesty is passed it is checkmate for our Republic.
Horse Manure.
Why aren’t the actual questions ever given? Is it because doing so would show these push pools to use strawman arguement?
Is it because the pro-amnesty side has been caught about lying about legislation in the polls?
Is it because Politico is a left wing publication serving the global elite that wants cheap labor and to elect a new people in America?
I vote all of the above.
Here are the facts. The biased study was purchased by the Ford Foundation
and the Carnegie Corporation of New York. (See page 2.) Having read the survey, for some reason, I can’t even find the actual questions. It’s almost like they are committing political science malpractice and lying to the press. I can’t imagine that the Ford Foundation, Carnagie corporation for Brookings Institute have any agenda here.
http://publicreligion.org/site...
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