Posted on 05/01/2006 8:26:46 PM PDT by television is just wrong
Polls: Citizens losing sympathy for illegal immigrants By Laura Crimaldi Monday, May 1, 2006
New national polls show Americans are feeling less sympathy toward undocumented workers and have serious doubts the government can fix the country’s massive immigration problem. Recent Zogby International polls show the immigration protests in March left three in five adults feeling less compassionate toward undocumented workers. Even 46 percent of the Hispanic respondents said they are less likely to be sympathetic to the cause of immigrants as a result of the protests. The Zogby poll also shows 18 percent of respondents believe Congress and President Bush will not come up with a solution to the problem of undocumented workers. The survey included 7,967 respondents nationwide and was conducted between March 31 and April 3. A separate poll conducted by Harris Interactive shows a majority of Americans favor an immigration policy that would grant special treatment to the children and spouses of U.S. citizens, with 73 percent of those polled giving the thumbs-up to children and 67 percent giving preference to spouses. That poll reached 2,377 U.S. adults who were surveyed online between April 11 and 17. Fluency in English and job skills topped the list of factors the majority of Harris poll respondents want the government to weigh in determining whether an immigrant can enter this country, the poll results said.
The GOP has done nothing to protect our borders. I will vote GOP this last time, but if it continues, I will vote thrid party-no sense in voting for Repubs who are Democrats in Repub clothing.
Ouch!
The march organizer, that sleazy looking man incessantly popped up on TV with this mantra, which he kept repeating: 'It's not just us immigrants. Polls show that tens of millions of Americans support us.' Notice how the word, 'illegal' has disappeared. It's Clintonism, the big lie. Repeated often enough, nobody cares that it's a lie.
NPR last week: a reporterette wondered out loud what we should call illegal immigrants. Certainly not 'illegal'. No. Undocumented workers? Just immigrants? She couldn't make up her mind. If they define the argument, the vocabulary, the spin, they win. MSM and the big lie. It's the same tactic with the war in Iraq, Bush's presidency, etc..
Pretty good, huh?
Trying to remember what a Liberal friend of mine/devoted NPR listener said a few weeks ago when I railed against uncontrolled borders and mass invasion from Mexico and God knows where else: 'Where's the compassion for these people? We're all immigrants. If they were Irish or English you wouldn't say a word.' When I asked if it didn't bother him that they were working for slave wages, that many had become fact indentured servants -- immoral and illegal -- he had no answer.
A second friend then said he'd heard of more than one company...in Eastern MA...with a policy of supplying llegals' apartments. They'd state a certain salary, then take out rent, utilities, leaving very little for food. Kraft Foods in Littleton -- shuttle bus to and from Lowell everyday. The workers look Brazilian, but could be Mexican or Costa Rican. Police raided a Lowell apt. house a few months ago and found 900 illegals. One room was partitioned off as a fake document center -- blanket over a rope -- with the wherewithal to fake any US ID document you'd ever need.
THIS citizen NEVER HAD sympathy for ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS INVADERS.
they say that, (the press) because we no longer fall for their poor illegal alien sympathy articles. Some of us never did, but enough of the general population out there to make a big difference.
See post #55 about a "Stop the invasion" ad campaign -
a 50 foot high billboard that will be put up in various major cities and how you can support it.
Navy Patriot gets it.
Just because the crime of being in the country illegally is not violent and you could argue that both employee and employer are doing it of free will, there is still crime being committed.
Citizens are not allowed to choose which laws they follow, so why should illegal aliens? I took an extreme position on rape, murder, and robbery to expose the fallacy of the illegal immigration proponents and those who would choose to ignore law.
And I say taking extreme positions only gets you a backlash and the opposite effect of what you want.
Very well said, my feelings exactly.
"You all better get out of this "Two-party cartel" while we have a small window to do such before this One World Order takes over."
I wholeheartedly agree? But where's a viable third party? Where are the Libertarians? Where can we go? This is the critical question facing all americans who have had it up to hear with the corrupt, entrenched two party duopoly we have now.
Unless we can put as many people in the streets as the illegals do, there will be no backfire.
I got sympathy for them. I just want them to go home.
I have sympathy for all the world's poor. Been there lived amongst them. Seen the dying homeless children and bombed villages and necklaced chopped up bodies and brutality unimaginable
and corruption exponentially beyond what we tolerate in places like New Orleans or Cook County.
I feel horrible for the state of mankind in the third world. But I am realistic enough to know we can only take them in limited...something we can truly assimilate reasonably.
We are better to try to fix the broken cultures of the world than to simply bring them all here.
All that will do is make us them.
I don't see your position as extreme, it is the logical extrapolation of allowing citizens to pick and choose what laws apply to them, and next to dictate what laws apply to others. You are guilty of extremely clear thinking. (see, I told you all conservatives are guilty).
If you look at the basic dynamic objectively, many people are surreptitiously attempting to maneuver the law to favor themselves and punish those they don't like for whatever reason. The Constitution recognizes that, although common, this is the death of any society, thus "equal protection under the law".
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