Posted on 08/20/2014 8:29:21 AM PDT by xzins
A blockbuster new poll obtained by Breitbart News reveals that a majority of likely voters want to push the pause button on massive immigration, which allowed legal immigrants a chance to more fully assimilate while the middle class expanded as wages increased.
As President Barack Obama considers giving more guest-worker permits to companies that have laid off American workers and granting temporary work permits and executive amnesty to millions of more illegal immigrants, a comprehensive survey found that a majority of likely voters want even fewer legal immigrants. The poll found that "half of Americans age 65 and over" and 46% of Midwesterners support a zero immigration policy. Furthermore, "independents (47%) were more likely than Republicans (40%) or Democrats (37%) to want zero new immigrants allowed into the country."
The survey, which polled 1,001 likely voters from July 16-20, also revealed that an overwhelming majority of Americans want more enforcement of the country's immigration laws and employers to give preference to U.S. citizens over legal and illegal immigrants when hiring. For instance, "90% of likely voters feel that "U.S.- born workers and legal immigrants already here should get first preference for jobs." Even among likely voters who think that illegal immigration laws are enforced "too much," 67% believed that jobs now held by illegal immigrants should go to American workers. Among those who favor legal status for illegal immigrants, that number is 80%. And even among those who favor a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants, 61% feel that Americans should be employed in jobs that illegals currently have.
On top of that, 80% believed that U.S. businesses should try harder to "recruit and train more American workers from groups with the highest unemployment levels, rather than allowing them to bring in more immigrant workers."
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Keep calling your congress people.
Send them this article and others like it.
We are winning the argument about immigration.
Keep calling your congress people.
Send them this article and others like it.
Glad to see this. We need to stop all immigration, enforce our laws, clear out all that don’t belong here and then reassess.
If the rioters in Ferguson would pause for a moment, they’d realize their protesting the wrong thing.
Should be protesting their jobs being taken away.
If black youth unemployment wasn’t about 60%, maybe this kid would have had a job and different circumstances.
Now all we can do is pray the government deigns to listen to us.
AND voters want illegals sent HOME - back to where they came from... Voters are sick and tired of liberal elite blowhards in Washington supplying cheap labor for their corrupt friends.
Well, if this is on the news, there is an outside chance that the 0bama administration will hear about it.
Everybody is leaving Obama out of the equation. If he wants amnesty he will do it with one stroke of a pen.
Yeah! Just like the negative opinion on Obamacare stopped that monstrosity. This country is in the shape that it is because the members of the Senate, House of Representatives, Supreme Court and the President WANT IT THAT WAY!!
They don’t listen to us. Which is why seeing the same cast of clowns returned to DC year after year is so damn demoralizing.
He can pardon and reprieve, but he cannot grant citizenship or work status, and he cannot take away a foreigner’s current citizenship. Immigration is clearly and constitutionally under the authority of Congress.
So, they could still be deported. Just not fined or imprisoned for breaking the law about illegally coming here in the first place.
The only place we don't have a majority is in DC....the HOR, US Senate and White House. They're bought and paid for by the Chamber of Commerce.
I've reached a point where I'll NEVER vote for anyone endorsed by the Chamber of Commerce. They aren't "the lesser of two evils".
Exactly. It doesn't matter what the American people think about it. Every poll I've seen since the Clinton era shows that Americans want illegals deported, the border secure, etc. Yet nothing has been done, and illegals are still welcomed with open arms.
DAILY CALLS TO WORSHIP OF DEAR READER - get ready for hundreds of Ahs, Ums, and
opps wrong thread!!! sorry
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