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.
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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
So much for a college education, NOT!
Put me in that slight majority.
"Rassmussin" = "Rasmussen".
Sorry.
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.
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Amnesty in 2006 = Hillary as President in 2008
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:
Thats odd nobody called my house and asked me. I vote no,
And it's still garbage.
Gee its the AP.
You can't believe the AP saying its a sunny day unless you look outside.
The number 1 item in the President's proposal is Border Security.
True.
We should build a wall between us and Canada.
After all, it's how all the illegal 9/11 folks got in.
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.
We should build a wall between us and Canada.
"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.
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