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Poll: Most Open to Letting Immigrants Stay
AP via Yahoo ^ | 4/2/06 | NANCY BENAC

Posted on 04/02/2006 5:08:09 AM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32

WASHINGTON - A slim majority of Americans are open to allowing undocumented workers to obtain some sort of temporary legal status to remain in the United States, with stronger support for the idea among Democrats, younger adults and more educated Americans, a new poll finds.

Overall, 56 percent of Americans favor offering illegal immigrants a shot at some kind of legal status; roughly two-thirds of those ages 18-34 like the idea and an equal share of those with a college education agree, the AP-Ipsos survey found.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bspoll; caca; illegal; illegalimmigrants; yeahright
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To: rbg81

If this poll was bad then we need some help at CNN.com where their poll is a 50/50 split on the question:

Should civilians help partrol the border?

Yes 32,175

No 32,175


41 posted on 04/02/2006 2:32:18 PM PDT by heat02
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

So much for a college education, NOT!


42 posted on 04/02/2006 2:37:57 PM PDT by neverdem (May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
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To: NapkinUser
From the Rassmussin poll report: A slight majority (54%) agree that the "goal of immigration policy should be to keep out national security threats, criminals, and those who would come here to live off our welfare system. Beyond that, all immigrants would be welcome." Thirty percent (30%) disagree.

Put me in that slight majority.

43 posted on 04/02/2006 3:06:02 PM PDT by Celtjew Libertarian
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To: Celtjew Libertarian

"Rassmussin" = "Rasmussen".

Sorry.


44 posted on 04/02/2006 3:08:56 PM PDT by Celtjew Libertarian
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To: GeorgiaDawg32; Cacique; Clemenza; firebrand; Do not dub me shapka broham; All
The Hispanic Challenge (To America) A MUST READ Samuel Huntington (Long But Good)

The Mexicans are unlike previous immigrants. This definitely needs to be read by everyone at least once! It should be linked on pertinent immigration threads. I did a search on the title. It was viewed only by 498 folks since it was posted. Some probably looked at its length and didn't completely read it.

45 posted on 04/02/2006 4:54:38 PM PDT by neverdem (May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
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To: neverdem; Cacique
I'm definitely going to re-post this article on PW when I get the chance.

Thanks for the pings.

I appreciate them.

-good times, G.J.P. (Jr.)

46 posted on 04/02/2006 5:07:04 PM PDT by Do not dub me shapka broham ("The moment that someone wants to forbid caricatures, that is the moment we publish them.")
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To: nj26

Amnesty in 2006 = Hillary as President in 2008



Guaranteed.


47 posted on 04/02/2006 5:33:15 PM PDT by trubluolyguy (If I wanted to live in Mexico, I'd FRIGGING MOVE THERE!)
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To: cripplecreek

Oh yah, you don't agree with the poll, therefore it's 'Garbage'.

It's all rigged by extreme liberals.

Like Sen. Sam Brownback. :rolls eyes:


48 posted on 04/02/2006 5:34:59 PM PDT by zbigreddogz
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

Thats odd nobody called my house and asked me. I vote no,


49 posted on 04/02/2006 5:35:45 PM PDT by linn37 (Have you hugged your Phlebotomist today?)
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To: zbigreddogz

And it's still garbage.


50 posted on 04/02/2006 5:36:02 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

Gee its the AP.

You can't believe the AP saying its a sunny day unless you look outside.


51 posted on 04/02/2006 5:37:22 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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To: Owen

The number 1 item in the President's proposal is Border Security.



They don't secure the border or enforce the laws we have NOW, you are going to buy this BS?


52 posted on 04/02/2006 5:38:00 PM PDT by trubluolyguy (If I wanted to live in Mexico, I'd FRIGGING MOVE THERE!)
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To: trubluolyguy

True.

We should build a wall between us and Canada.

After all, it's how all the illegal 9/11 folks got in.



53 posted on 04/02/2006 5:45:24 PM PDT by zbigreddogz
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To: neverdem
The message appears to be getting out this time around. My repost thread and your links spiked it up to 81 replies · 3,602+ views. I hope every FReeper gets to read it and sends it to their friends. It needs to be read.



54 posted on 04/02/2006 6:06:04 PM PDT by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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To: GeorgiaDawg32
AP/Ipsos Poll: More Than Half Open To Allowing Illegal Immigrants ... [Oversampled DemocRATS]
55 posted on 04/02/2006 6:09:46 PM PDT by lowbridge (I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming, like his passengers.)
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To: Cacique

It's a poll designed to trick American voters into believing something that isn't true. I bet it was put out by Businesses hirng illegals.


56 posted on 04/02/2006 6:12:04 PM PDT by jackadams
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To: Cacique; All
Do you know anyone who posts at DU? It needs to get posted there more than here. Here's an interesting link: "Strangely enough, despite the fact that he was buddies with Henry Kissinger at Harvard, he is registered as a member of the Democratic Party, and has written foreign policy speeches for Adlai Stevenson, Hubert Humphrey, and Jimmy Carter.".
57 posted on 04/02/2006 6:32:50 PM PDT by neverdem (May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
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To: zbigreddogz

We should build a wall between us and Canada.




Sure. Right after the one on the southern border is finished.


58 posted on 04/02/2006 7:06:44 PM PDT by trubluolyguy (If I wanted to live in Mexico, I'd FRIGGING MOVE THERE!)
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To: neverdem
I took the liberty of archiving the article on one of my web addresses HERE . If they see it's posted at FR those DUMMIES will not read. However, if it's posted on an anonymous website they just might.



59 posted on 04/02/2006 7:23:55 PM PDT by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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To: Jedidah

"As a realist, I don't know how on earth this can be accomplished. Suppose we seal the borders, tight, so that continued entry is not an issue. Even then, I see no workable way to round up the illegals who are here, other than offering minimal amnesty as a "carrot" to get them to come forward."

it's not a matter of rounding them up or doing nothing.

It's a matter of creating a situation where the incentives favor going home.

Let's look at it this way.
Problem #1 is the fact that they draw on social services.
So rule #1 is to end social services and to identify the uses of such, including education, and stop it.
Problem #2 is that 25% of prisoners are illegal aliens. Deport them.
Problem #3 is the flood of family members that follow a single 'anchor baby'. So end chain migration.
etc.

Define the real problems behind illegal immigration and the swamp is far more manageable. 3 things: Border fence+interior enforcement+ ending social services and 'sanctuaries' will reduce the problem significantly.

And that is without amnesty coming into the picture.

"But we have to do something, even if it means compromise and imperfection, because what we have now is just plain rotten. "

Why is what we have so 'rotten'? We have a de facto system of a lot of immigration. As a result, we've had benefits of wage flexibility, and costs of importing poverty and unemployment from Mexico.

If that is rotten, then amnesty will be twice as rotten, putting US taxpayers on the hook for far more social services, without in any way guaranteeing *any* reduction in illegal immigration (in fact, it will create more illegal immigration).

The right solution? Want to do "something"?

Simply build the fence and enforce the law internally for 12 months. End the hidden amnesties that incentivize illegal immigration and end the possibility of open immigration that directly creates incentives for further illegal immigration.
Create a system where every employer can accurately check immigration status for every applicant/employee, and hold employers accountable for hiring employees that are not legal residents.

In other words, make the House bill, HR4437, the law, FIRST.

And *then* in 12 months see what else needs to happen.

America has survived since 1986 without amnesty and it is *talk* of amnesty that has made the problem worse.


60 posted on 04/02/2006 7:46:48 PM PDT by WOSG (http://freedomstruth.blogspot.com/)
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