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Poll Hints Bush Immigrant Plans Unpopular
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Posted on 01/13/2004 8:55:32 AM PST by Happy2BMe
Poll Hints Bush Immigrant Plans UnpopularNewsMax.com Wires
Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2004
WASHINGTON -- More than half of Americans oppose President Bush's plan that would allow some illegal immigrants to stay for several years to work jobs U.S. citizens don't want, a poll indicates. Just over half, 55 percent, said they oppose the plan, while 42 percent favor it, according to a CNN-USA Today-Gallup poll out Monday.
By a 2-1 margin, those in the poll said immigrants hurt the economy by driving wages down for many Americans rather than help the economy by providing low-cost labor. In 2000, people were split on that question.
When people were asked whether the United States should make it easier for illegal immigrants to become citizens, 74 percent said no - up from 67 percent in August 2001.
The poll of 1,003 adults was taken Jan. 9-11 and had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
TOPICS: Extended News
KEYWORDS: aliens; fox; immigrantlist; immigration; mexico; poll; reform
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To: Happy2BMe
No sh$%t sherlock bump
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posted on
01/13/2004 8:56:52 AM PST
by
KantianBurke
(Don't Tread on Me)
To: Happy2BMe
I voted for Bush and hate this plan as well as a few others far too liberal that he has worked on.
I almost puke everytime I think of how he let FAT Teddy Kennedy walk all over him.
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posted on
01/13/2004 8:57:54 AM PST
by
The PeteMan
(Go to H*ll Dan Rather!)
To: Happy2BMe
DUH! bttt
To: Happy2BMe
Just over half, 55 percent, said they oppose the plan, As long as its the half that doesn't have anywhere else to go, it doesn't matter. What are they going to do, vote Democrat?
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posted on
01/13/2004 9:13:16 AM PST
by
AdamSelene235
(I always shoot for the moon......sometimes I hit London.- Von Braun)
To: Happy2BMe
55%?
Inexcusable!
How dare they oppose the will of Bush!
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posted on
01/13/2004 9:17:47 AM PST
by
StoneColdGOP
(McClintock - In Your Heart, You Know He's Right)
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No Blood for Lettuce!
Click here and here for lists of crimes committed by illegal aliens.
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posted on
01/13/2004 9:18:07 AM PST
by
putupon
(No Blood for Lettuce)
To: Happy2BMe
Ahem:
DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUH!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you.
To: Happy2BMe
Only 55%? Boy, I bet they must have stretched and massaged those numbers the way the Japanese massage their Kobe cows.
To: *immigrant_list; A Navy Vet; Lion Den Dan; Free the USA; Libertarianize the GOP; madfly; B4Ranch; ..
ping
To: swarthyguy
"Boy, I bet they must have stretched and massaged those numbers the way the Japanese massage their Kobe cows." Wouldn't know about massaging animals, but . .
Can over 1,600 FReepers be wrong?
Question ...
After hearing President Bush's speech, do you approve of his immigration reform plan?
Yes
543 votes - 21%
No
1,627 votes - 65%
Undecided
299 votes - 12%
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posted on
01/13/2004 9:30:05 AM PST
by
Happy2BMe
(Liberty does not tolerate lawlessness and a borderless nation will not prevail.)
To: AdamSelene235
No, they'll just sit this one out, the same way that many conservatives did with Bush I in '96. No one forces you to go vote at gunpoint.
To: Happy2BMe
Those who think low-wage immigrants hurt the economy are economic illiterates. They are falling for the fallacies of protectionism. The country as a whole does not benefit from "high wages" maintained by excluding low-wage immigrants, just as the economy as a whole does not benefit from any other form of protectionism. People are made wealthy by PRODUCTION of actual goods and services.
The REAL reason to keep illegal immigrants out is to preserve the culture and national sovereignty of the United States. There may be an economic COST to doing so. But it's still worth doing.
To: Happy2BMe
Will some one tell me when and where mexico has ever
been on the side of America.
Not WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, 1ST Gulf WAR or War on Terror.
They stole American Property in 1934.
They send CRIMINAL INVADERS into America.
They smuggle drugs and people.
They want to turn America into another turd world country.
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posted on
01/13/2004 9:32:50 AM PST
by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
(A little knowledge is dangerous.-- I live dangerously::))
To: Happy2BMe
Will some one tell me when and where mexico has ever
been on the side of America.
Not WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, 1ST Gulf WAR or War on Terror.
They stole American Property in 1934.
They send CRIMINAL INVADERS into America.
They smuggle drugs and people.
They want to turn America into another turd world country.
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posted on
01/13/2004 9:33:42 AM PST
by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
(A little knowledge is dangerous.-- I live dangerously::))
To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran
Sorry about double post.
First post said missing info.
can not find page
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posted on
01/13/2004 9:35:50 AM PST
by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
(A little knowledge is dangerous.-- I live dangerously::))
To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran
"Will some one tell me when and where mexico has ever." Don't forget that little letter the chancellor of Germany sent to the Mexican president offering to "share the spoils" of the United States if Mexico would attack from the South during WWI.
This little bit of history is almost as hidden as the soviet cables.
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posted on
01/13/2004 9:35:58 AM PST
by
Happy2BMe
(Liberty does not tolerate lawlessness and a borderless nation will not prevail.)
To: kittymyrib
Yeah, I don't know ANYONE who voted for George H.W. Bush in 1996!
To: Happy2BMe
I think it was the Zimmerman(sp?) letter.
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posted on
01/13/2004 9:37:35 AM PST
by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
(A little knowledge is dangerous.-- I live dangerously::))
To: Happy2BMe
This whole thing is about popularity. It'll never see the light of day if it's not popular.
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posted on
01/13/2004 9:43:41 AM PST
by
GraniteStateConservative
("Howard Dean is incontrovertible proof that God is on Bush's side in the 2004 election"- Dick Morris)
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