Posted on 10/16/2018 2:05:41 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Democratic pollster Anna Greenberg said in an interview that aired Tuesday on "What America's Thinking" that immigration has been politically weaponized in the U.S. ahead of November's midterm elections.
"I don't think we're having a policy debate in this election. I think we're having a cultural debate," she said.
She said that when it comes to immigration policy, people are fairly reasonable regardless of party.
"The problem is it's weaponized politically, and so that makes it much harder to have an actual rational debate about it," she said.
Seventy-five percent of Americans say they believe immigration, in general, is good for the country, according to a Gallup poll released earlier this year.
The survey also showed that 65 percent of Republican and Republican-leaning Independents view immigration positively, while 85 percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning Independents said the same.
Republicans, however, are much more likely than Democrats to see illegal immigration as a big problem.
A Pew Research survey conducted late last month showed that 75 percent of Republicans considered illegal immigration to be the highest-ranked national problem, while only 19 percent of Democrats thought so.
The Democrats are more focused on getting men into girls' restrooms.
If the questions included a statement of how many immigrants are allowed to come the US legally each year (1.1 - 1.5 million plus work visas in the hundreds of thousands) I think the answers would be significantly different.
You seldom see the numbers mentioned when these general questions are asked.
Hey! He was the BRAINS behind Bush. AKA ROVESPUTIN, he was the puppet master who whispered policy into Bush’s head and mesmerized him into following his every “suggestion”.
Of course that was his job along with the giant weather machine in the WH basement
“Hey! He was the BRAINS behind Bush”
and boy did it ever show..
There is no debate. Come in legally
or don’t come at all. It’s not
political for me. It’s MY country,
MY state, My county, MY city, MY
home.
Doing what Dems do - trying to divert from the issues at hand by claiming they are “cultural” debates....designed to divide and incite....
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