Posted on 03/31/2006 2:08:49 PM PST by jmc1969
Americans polled by TIME magazine show strong support for a guest-worker program and a process for undocumented workers to become citizens, but they take a tough stance on securing the borders. And most do not want illegal immigrants to have access to health care, public education or driver's licenses.
In the telephone survey of 1004 adults, conducted Wednesday and Thursday, 79% say they favor a guest worker program that would allow illegal immigrants to remain in the U.S. for a fixed period of time — the main provision of the bill proposed by Senators John McCain and Edward Kennedy that is now under fierce debate in Congress. Only 47% of those polled say they support the tougher measure backed by some House conservatives, deporting all illegal immigrants back to their home countries.
Although Americans want to give illegal immigrants the chance to work in the U.S. temporarily and even earn citizenship—78% say illegal immigrants who learn English, have a job and pay taxes ought to have a chance at it—they also want better enforcement both at the border and inside the country. A large majority, 71%, favor major penalties for people who hire illegal immigrants; 62% want the U.S. to take "whatever steps are necessary" to secure the border with Mexico, including posting military forces; and 56% favor a 2,000-mile-long fence. That two-pronged approach to illegal immigration is the same one favored by President Bush, who wants both a guest worker program and tighter border security.
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Who did they call and poll? The barios in Los Angeles??
The American public favors getting rid of illegals. Period. Just the MSM trying its best to put out lies and distortions as usual.
One proviso to the guest worker program should be, your newborns are not citizens.
What a pile of caca.
Oh please, right we all want a guest worker program.
All these polls, 52% want illegals, 60% want them deported and on and on it goes depending on who you listen to like Time magazine, LIBERALS, everyone has an agenda.
79% say they favor a guest worker program that would allow illegal immigrants to remain in the U.S. for a fixed period of time ...Only 47% of those polled say they support the tougher measure backed by some House conservatives, deporting all illegal immigrants back to their home countries.
That two-pronged approach to illegal immigration is the same one favored by President Bush, who wants both a guest worker program and tighter border security.
On this issue, Bush has even got Time Magazine carrying his water, or vice versa.
I agree who did they ask????? 79 percent is not possible. They really used imagination to get results on this one and I am not usually to critical on stats that come out, but these are just plain out of bounds and can not possibly be true.
BS!
It is funny that these are the best numbers Bush has gotten for any of his initiatives since 2002.
Ok I haven't read one response comment yet.
But the first thing I looked at was who did the poll, answer 'TIME'.
No further reading is necessary. But I am sure another poster mentioned the samething.
Check out the fazool's name who wrote this manure.
Barbra Streisand!
I not only want this crop out, I don't want them back in. Let's let some hard workers in from some other countries if we truly do need "willing workers". Mexico isn't the only country on the planet and we have no obligation to solve their problems.
How about a poll that asks would you rather keep importing poverty from Mexico or would you rather see inovations in machinery that replaces them threefold.
I suspect the phone calls were made sometime between 9am and 5pm... when the folks working to pay for all these wonderful guest workers are a little too busy to be available.
They are the masters of poll data manipulation, so we should bide our time and see how this conclusion was derived.
It flies in the face of everything else out there.
It would seem as though they were trying to lure Republican congressmen into betraying their base, by showing an altered poll that makes that seem OK.
It may come as a shock to those most vocal about this at this forum, but most Americans aren't for a program of putting landmines on the border or deporting all Mexicans.
They don't mind them here if they are here legally, paying taxes, and doing hard work.
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