Posted on 05/13/2010 4:40:39 AM PDT by EBH
To the surprise of immigrant advocates, Ohioans back sweeping immigration reform and are ready to engage in a debate they know could get ugly.
A poll released this week found that nearly 70 percent of likely Ohio voters would support a plan that brings illegal immigrants out of the shadows and makes them tax-paying citizens.
Ohioans rated a "path to citizenship" as a higher priority than border security and other get-tough measures that are widely perceived as politically safe.
"The Ohio results are stunning," said Frank Sharry, executive director of the pro-reform group America's Voice, which commissioned the poll.
Sharry said his group sought to gauge the prospects for immigration reform in "tough terrain," conservative states where the issue generates harsh criticism.
Peter D. Hart Research Associates in April polled 1,600 people in Arkansas, Colorado, Missouri and Ohio. Respondents were presented the main planks of a Democratic reform plan, like earned citizenship, tighter border security and a crackdown on employers who hire illegal immigrants. They also presented Republican criticism of the plan, including charges that it would extend amnesty to lawbreakers.
"We did find that at the end of the debate, there is still a solid majority of voters who favor immigration reform," pollster Guy Molyneux said in a conference call.
In Ohio, most agreed that strengthening border security is only part of the fix. Sixty-seven percent of respondents said they favor comprehensive immigration reform.
Consider the source, this is not news, this propaganda. It is total nonsense.
I call bull-sheet!
hahahahaha
The people who did that poll must be on crack.
I can just imagine how they worded/framed the questions.
LOL
The results are stunning because they would even put Ohio at odds with the people of Massachusetts. Stunning is not the right word. Bogus fits better.
You can go to the link within the article at the PD, there is a PPt presentation of the propaganda.
Actually reform will make them Democrat voters. If they would be republican vote prospects the Democrats would call out the National guard, Hire every available truck bus and train, Deport them at light speed and mine the border while building an impregnable 150 foot high wall with a moat full of Piranas.
Amen! Let’s start a caravan!
You should read the comments after the article!!!
Sample:
xdawg80
Posted by xdawg80
May 13, 2010, 4:22AM
First, let me say that I have often been called a liberal. That being said, I’m about solving problems, not ideology.
My first approach to the problem would be to make a mandatory fine equal to the median annual salary in the United States for each instance of every illegal alien hired, even if only for one hour’s work. Hire an illegal for $5 an hour? It should cost you around $42,000 per incident.
Second, until the fines are paid, your business is padlocked and shut down. If you hire a domestic worker illegally, same with your house. Fail to pay the fine or comply? Prison.
Call this program “Padlock, Prison and Pay.”
Second, ELIMINATE ESL programs and the like in public schools. While English is not our official language, that’s the language we do business in. Keep in mind that when its area was heavily Italian, John Hay High School did not conduct classes in Italian, South High did not teach its curriculum in Polish, and Glenville never had its classes taught in Yiddish.
The immigrants who came here in those days struggled to master English, with varying degrees of success, but their offspring all graduated public school speaking accent-free American English. They assimilated and became productive.
I don’t care about your lineage, but if I have to share an office, neighborhood or community with you, I am well within my rights to ask for fluency in American English and respectful behavior.
As a final note, this was written by a man whose late grandmother had a heavy German accent, and her English was far from perfect.
But, at least she tried.
The first approach would cause self deportation. But you would have to make sure they could not get any welfare. If caught give them a bus ticket to the border and run em off.
Exactly, it is common knowledge that the Plain Dealer is an arm of the Democratic Party (Sherrod Browns wife even works for them). Whatever the results really were, look for lots of spin and Questions that were phrased to achieve these results. I can tell you for sure that no one I know agrees with the poll. My guess is that it was probably done on a college campus in the area.
Which of the following forms of immigration reform would be the most appropriate?
1. Secure the Mexican border with concertina wire, land mines, and interlocking machine gun fields of fire.
2. Stop the racial discrimination and permit hard working immigrant families to come in from the shadows, pay taxes and join us in the American Dream of Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.
They must have only called people in the cities. Out in the rural Ohio areas, it’s always a different story. Out in the country, we don’t favor making a bunch of Democratic voters out of our illegal aliens. Guaranteed.
I think the answer is obvious, don’t you?
This is a PUSH POLL at its crudest and most simple minded.
A poll of the virtue of Frank Sharry’s mother/sister/wife would reveal even more stunning results.
Bullshit!
This is an obviously rigged poll, by the LeftiePervert propaganda rag that is the “Plain Dealer”.
They are always printing lies to support the DemoCrminals.
I’m sure if Rasmussen had been used it would have yielded a pretty different result.
Seriously at odds with every other poll out there. What utter nonsense. Yet we will now have to hear idiots on TV reference this poll as they try and get people to back the Obama view of immigration.
SHOW ME THE INTERNALS ON THIS POLL - I CALL B.S.!
Generally, I believe polls are accurate. But when the group that commissions a poll gets the results it wants? Naaaahhh. I live in Dayton, and while illegals are not an issue, Ohio recently introduced Arizona type legislation and I think it will pass.
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