Posted on 01/29/2006 8:53:34 AM PST by Brian Mosely
Via Instapundit:
Almost two-thirds of Americans (63%) consider illegal immigration a “very serious” or “extremely serious” problem in the United States, according to a TIME Poll. The majority (74%) believes the U.S. is not doing enough to secure its borders. . . .
TIME’s Poll shows that half (50%) of Americans favor deporting all illegal immigrants back to their home countries (45% oppose). Three-in-four (76%) favor allowing illegal immigrants in the U.S. to earn citizenship if they learn English, have a job and pay taxes. . . . Meanwhile 700,000 undocumented immigrants from around the world continue to enter the U.S. each year, according to the Pew Hispanic Center.
Odds are...
Is that why the most liberal states have the worst problems and the most benefits for illegals?
I have yet to meet a lib that thinks this is as much of a problem and has as much desire to see the issue resolved as any conservative that I know.
If it does "cross party lines" among the general populace, then I'll still maintain that most people are conservative yet just don't know it for a variety of reasons. It's actually amusing, if you take someone that voted lib in an election, and then pin them down for "their own ideas" as to certain political issues, I've often found that they are all but conservative. Yet, for reasons of their own, usually extremely superficial as it can't be much else, they vote lib.
The other half are anchor babies, illegal employers, and people whose jobs depend upon illegals, such as politicians, race-baiters, bilingual teachers, etc.
Can't we start doing regular seismic readings for underground tunnels on the border? Also, if we find these tunnels, we should use our experimental bunker buster bombs on them. We can then see where the tunnels lead to on the other side of the border.
Nobody has to even bring up deportation, people are free to come and go where they feel welcomed and needed, just ask simple questions;
Ask how many are in favor of slavery, while pointing out a recent study the many illegal are beat and or never paid, and the ones who are paid, are paid less than a living wage to support a single family dwelling which is more than even slave owners in the 1800s provided.
Ask how many are in favor of their property taxes and income taxes being used for housing, food, education, roads, water, sewage, expenses, which is equal to the savings the illegal employers are pocketing for their own use in their gated communities.
Ask how many are in favor of law enforcement that makes it illegal to question or deport illegal immigrant criminal’s based upon their immigration status and allows them to use counterfeit documents. But at the same time they assign task forces to persecute our own kids for holding counterfeit copies of mp3s.
Ask how many are in favor in the war on terrorism, and volunteer to be strip searched at the entry to our airports while at the same time, transport trucks and humveess can drive though wide open gaps through the entry points on the border.
Ask how many would lower the standards of education for our children to below high school level, and not require literacy, while at the same time allow Latin American kids to live in amoungst us , half of whom don’t have a high school education. While those that do, ask how many are in favor of giving them preferential treatment to enter our universities.
Ask how many are in favor of paying through the roof medical premiums while offering illegal immigrants free medical care.
Finally ask how many are in favor of equality and the rule of law?
"TIME’s Poll shows that half (50%) of Americans favor deporting all illegal immigrants back to their home countries (45% oppose). Three-in-four (76%) favor allowing illegal immigrants in the U.S. to earn citizenship if they learn English, have a job and pay taxes"
This is a total contadiction. I do not believe that 76% of people favor a plan that allows all of the illegals in this country to earn citizenship(amnesty). It does not fit with the other polls, or even the other numbers within this poll.
Does that come in an electrified version, Trav? ;)
I think deporting illegals is a step in the right direction, but it should be an on going effort. A mass roundup and deportation process would be overly burdensome. Instead, we need to demand the Feds secure the borders using whatever means is required. Fences, walls, increased BP and if necessary use the military to assist. The Feds should enforce the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, which PresReagan signed into law. It calls for prosecuting and punishing employers who hire illegals. In addition, the Feds should immediately halt welfare handouts to illegals. If the Feds take these steps, America can start to solve our illegal immigration problem.
it's a mixed result. In the same poll:
" half (50%) of Americans favor deporting all illegal immigrants back to their home countries
Three-in-four (76%) favor allowing illegal immigrants in the U.S. to earn citizenship if they learn English, have a job and pay taxes. . . . "
I think the only thing the poll shows that people didn't think it through and are just having knee-jerk reaction to how the question is phrased.
Or the questions were phrased poorly in the first place.
The above two statements are contradictory and mutually exclusive.
Interesting
I live in a suburb outside of Los Angeles, In the middle of Dem country. There are long standing situations like, special order #40 that prohibit LAPD from complying with INS, on immigration issues and turning illegal aliens over to them. The problem is, there is a disconnect everywhere. INS, Border Patrol releases them, and what is the point.
The people I have spoken to, almost 90% want massive deportations, are tired of having to deal with a society that is bi-lingual, and feel like a foreigner in their own town. The illegal latinos here and you can tell who they are because many of them do not speak much english, are working the system, the system protects them, and the rest of us have our hands tied.
It becomes a catch 22 because the local govt says it is feds job, the feds say it is a local job. Everyone is passing the buck here.
Frustrating.
It would be helpful to know where they are all from. We're talking about millions right? What method of travel? Just how much tax money are we talking about here? I know AZ was using air to transport illegals back to Mexico and it got way too costly so they stopped.
All illegal aliens along with criminal or welfare seeking legal immigrants should be deported.
Illegal aliens can't get welfare.
I know. It's similar here in Virginia near DC although I'm sure not as bad. It's growing however.
What I don't understand is that this entire thing is a powder keg waiting to go up. You'd think that politicians would care about such future issues that could get them tossed from office in haste not to mention utterly ruin their communities.
The problem is that via PC America and Americans have gone soft allowing just about anything in the name of moral vacuousness.
Just drop them off just over the border. As long as we keep being concerned about treating them better than they got gtreated in their own country, we'll never accomplish anything.
This country's gonna be half hispanic in 20 years and an entirely different country. It simply can't sustain itself like this.
And let's suppose for a moment, that hispanics take over the southern states and then vote, en masse as a majority, to turn themselves over to Mexican control or establish laws unfavorable to traditional Americans? Then what.
It's gonna happen in one way, shape, or form, make no mistake. It's just a question of how.
Please, do you really think that? How? It's been proven wrong over and over. Read some of the articles, even here on FR. Have an anchor baby, his entire family becomes eligible. Most states won't even ask immigration status. Not PC, you know.
The Mexican military and the drug runners (probably both in the same club) are certainly armed, why shouldn't our people be armed?
The Washington-based pandering to Mexico must stop!
Um only the "anchor baby" is eligible.
Just dropping them off at the border won't stop them from coming back. Just how much money do you think it would take to deport millions of illegals back to their home countries?
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