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Poll: Immigration top issue
Rocky Mountain News ^ | September 18, 2006 | Myung Oak Kim

Posted on 09/18/2006 7:10:32 PM PDT by Dane

Nearly two of every three Colorado voters think illegal immigrants should be allowed to become U.S. citizens if they pay taxes, learn English and meet other requirements, according to a new Rocky Mountain News/CBS 4 poll.

Only 15 percent of those polled favor mass deportations.

"People want to be tough but fair," said pollster Lori Weigel. "It's like many issues. You tend to hear from extremes on both ends. Clearly, this data indicate that there's a silent majority that is supportive of a more middle-ground approach."

(Excerpt) Read more at rockymountainnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: aliens; immigrantlist; immigration; pence; pushtwoforspanish; tancredo
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To: Dane

DANE, DANE, DANE, what about Hitler's VW's? Should they have a mass deportation? Maybe we should have a mass burning of all the copies of Mein Kampf we can find. What about that? Perhaps we should just round up all those wo want illegal immigration and dump them across the border as an offset? That'll be FUN!


121 posted on 09/18/2006 8:37:24 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Islam is the religion of violins, NOT peas.)
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To: ARealMothersSonForever
This would be comical if it were not so tragic. You are feeding on yourselves. It is a pity.

I guess you are new to this. Dane wants to use your money to support illegal invaders (none of his own of course).

he thinks it is perfectly OK to have open borders and uses 100% logical fallacies to "support" his position.

You need some learning before you berate those of us who are supporting America and identifying her enemies.

I am sure you are a very nice person. But this requires some toughness before the invaders swamp the boat. When the invaders can swim to a nearby island there is no reason to help them swamp us all.

122 posted on 09/18/2006 8:38:58 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Insultification is the polar opposite of Niceosity)
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To: pissant
A guest worker program may have benefits. But no way are conservatives going to support ANY worker plan until the border is sealed. No more bullshit. No more mexicanization of the SW.

I'm a conservative and I would support both simotaneously.

Actually I think I'm more of a conservative since I support those who take risks to create wealth for all(businesses) than some of the people who knee jerkingly hate some businesses because of the people they hire to create that wealth.

123 posted on 09/18/2006 8:39:18 PM PDT by Dane ("Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" Ronald Reagan, 1987)
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To: Mad Dash
Mine was a friendly reply, I was actually clarifying your clarification.

Well, now that I have clarified the clarification of your clarification of my clarification, we have clarity ;)

124 posted on 09/18/2006 8:40:20 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Insultification is the polar opposite of Niceosity)
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To: Dane
Now, Dane, it appears igramation is your top issue.

Let's split the cloth here.

125 posted on 09/18/2006 8:41:21 PM PDT by LNewman
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To: Dane
Yeah the vast majority show their disrespect by taking jobs such as cleaning toilets or tarring a roof in 100 degree heat.

Where is my violin to accompany that sad story?

You seem to be perfectly willing to give up other people's jobs/salary (they decrease both) and increase other peoples' tax bills so you can feel all warm and fuzzy about your new amigos.

Are you sure you're not a liberal and just haven't realized it yet?

126 posted on 09/18/2006 8:42:19 PM PDT by capt. norm (The liberal anti-war movement = cowardice disguised as tolerance.)
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To: TWOJAKES; Dane
And - it doesn't matter if at first there is granting of Guest Worker indentured servitude status or Citizenship emancipation

It all works out in the end.

128 posted on 09/18/2006 8:43:16 PM PDT by ARealMothersSonForever (We shall never forget the atrocities of September 11, 2001.)
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To: Dane
Total made up hyperbole, akin to democrats saying that Republicans want to starve children.

You are still here Dane?

I thought you did your usual "cut and run." I have multiple posts that have crushed your logical fallacies -- you have yet to respond.

Please do so. Or are you doing your other dance of "nya nya nya -- I can't hear you" when you have been bested (which happens a LOT on these threads).

I am still waiting to hear how many illegals you have in your home or are personally supporting with your money. Much less all the rest of the posts where I have crushed your assertions that you try to disguise as arguments.

And with minimal insultification.

129 posted on 09/18/2006 8:44:24 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Insultification is the polar opposite of Niceosity)
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To: capt. norm

A woman here illegally totalled my daughter's fiance's car last month. He works in an afterschool daycare program. The woman was driving her son's SUV, was backing out of a parking space and floored it. She backed into the fiance's parked chevy coupe and kept going, never stopping until she had literally shoved it into two other vehicles! The kids in the program had luckily not started walking out with their parents into the parking lot, or it would have been a tragedy!
When my daughter's fiance ran out to the parking lot, the woman got out of the vehicle and started to run away. He and some others got her to stop. She spoke no english, so someone stepped up to interpret. Basically she said it was her son's vehicle and would he please tell the police that her son was driving?
Unbelievable. No license, no insurance, here illegally and wants the person she harmed to LIE to protect her!
The son called and begged my daughter's fiance to lie to his insurance.
The cap off to the day was the local police would not even take a report, said it was private property... how can that be when it was a public school????
This is not an isolated case... this is the norm for the behavior and lack of responsibility of these lawbreakers.


130 posted on 09/18/2006 8:45:38 PM PDT by antceecee (Western countries really aren't up to winning this war on terror... it might offend the terrorists.)
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To: Dane
Dane,

Should all the Wookies be deported from Endor or not?

You can't have it both ways (Hitler, tojo AND Mussolini).

131 posted on 09/18/2006 8:47:00 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Islam is the religion of violins, NOT peas.)
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To: freedumb2003
Well, now that I have clarified the clarification of your clarification of my clarification, we have clarity ;)

So, we can see clearly now? The rain is gone? Have all obstacles disappeared?

Now, if we can just get the illegals gone..it would be a bright, bright, sunshiney day!

132 posted on 09/18/2006 8:47:02 PM PDT by Mad Dash
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To: pissant

I agree 100% fence first, as we cut off all public assistance. Back taxes aren't going to happen unless we do the paying so forget that. Deportation as we catch them, and by attrition.


133 posted on 09/18/2006 8:48:34 PM PDT by Scotsman will be Free
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To: Dane

Bull....
Personal experience tops your fantasies Dane.


134 posted on 09/18/2006 8:48:42 PM PDT by antceecee (Western countries really aren't up to winning this war on terror... it might offend the terrorists.)
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To: freedumb2003; Dane

Nah, it usually hauls out when someone calls it for the truth. Everything is fine and dandy as long as all of the, pardon the expression, Beaners are scrubbing toilets, roofing, picking produce, and behaving on the plantation. If they git uppity and run off; there will be heck to pay.


135 posted on 09/18/2006 8:49:51 PM PDT by ARealMothersSonForever (We shall never forget the atrocities of September 11, 2001.)
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To: Dane

No one hates anyone.

It is matter of sovereignty. Do you think you should be able to sneak into mexico and take a job, then NOT get deported when caught?

It is a matter of private property. Do you think it's OK for these hordes to be trampling across your ranch, shitting and littering and giving you the finger as they flagrantly break the local, state and US laws?

It is a matter of security. Do you know that more than a small number of ME men have been caught crossing the border? How many get thru? If they have the same success rate as the mezcans, then way too many. One is too many. Do you know that thousands of criminals and previous deportees come across each year?

It's a matter of finances. While overall, some may benefit from the labor, keeping some prices low, is it fair to the magnet cities and the border towns to have to put them in jail and feed them and give them free medicine? It's a gross miscarriage of justice.

It's a matter of fairness. That somebody can come across the border illegally. Hideout for 2 or 5 years, then be given a path to citizenship. How many people have relatives that have been waiting for many years just for their papers to immigrate? Because you are mexican, you get a priority over a jamaican, a haitian, a dominican, a irishmen? I call BS.

Fix the border, then we can hash out how best to get workers.


136 posted on 09/18/2006 8:50:47 PM PDT by pissant
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To: antceecee
This is not an isolated case... this is the norm for the behavior and lack of responsibility of these lawbreakers.

Nope. It's not. Happened to my neighbor although she was the culprit. She moved shortly after.

137 posted on 09/18/2006 8:57:28 PM PDT by LNewman
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To: Dane
Yeah the vast majority show their disrespect by taking jobs such as cleaning toilets or tarring a roof in 100 degree heat

Who did these things before illegals, Dane? The illegal invasion is a fairly new thing. Who did these things?

And, as usual, I am here to kick over your straw man. This has NOTHING to do with what they do when they are here. When I was young, I tarred roofs (so much for your specious assertion). I also cleaned toilets.

It has to do with what they TAKE when they are here and nothing to do with their activities.

You run this Strawman and I CRUSH it every time.

You really should stop.

138 posted on 09/18/2006 8:57:43 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Insultification is the polar opposite of Niceosity)
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To: Dane
Only 15 percent of those polled favor mass deportations.

Don't you love how they juxtapose the two alternatives? Illegals will all become "responsible citizens" or we can engage in "mass deportations", like the Nazis. Love the unbiased polling.

139 posted on 09/18/2006 9:00:31 PM PDT by montag813
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To: ARealMothersSonForever
Beaners are scrubbing toilets, roofing, picking produce, and behaving on the plantation. If they git uppity and run off; there will be heck to pay.

What in the heck are you talking about?

All jobs are available to Americans and the market will decide the price.

The COST of illegals to the rest of us is WAY in excess of the tiny value of their wage below market.

Or are you just saying you support breaking the law?

And, as I asked Dane -- how many illegals live in YOUR house? I assume you are personally responsibel for the welfare of a few families. You allow them to sleep in your rooms, right?

Or are you all talk and push the cost onto the rest of us?

Liberal "compassion" is easy when you stick someone else with the bill, isn't it?

140 posted on 09/18/2006 9:01:53 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Insultification is the polar opposite of Niceosity)
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