Posted on 04/06/2015 4:55:16 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
More voters than ever feel the United States is not aggressive enough in deporting those who are here illegally, even as President Obama continues to push his plan to make up to five million illegal immigrants safe from deportation.
Just 16% of Likely U.S. Voters think the U.S. government is too aggressive in deporting those who are in the country illegally. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 62% believe the government is not aggressive enough in deporting these illegal immigrants, up from 52% a year ago and 56% in November. Fifteen percent (15%) feel the current number of deportations is about right. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
Thirty-two percent (32%) believe illegal immigrants who have American-born children should be exempt from deportation, an element of Obama’s plan, but 51% now disagree. In November, voters were much more closely divided: 38% said they should be exempt from deportation, and only 42% disagreed. Seventeen percent (17%) remain undecided.
But then most voters (54%) continue to feel that a child born to an illegal immigrant mother in the United States should not automatically become a U.S. citizen, as is now the case. Thirty-eight percent (38%) favor the current policy of automatic citizenship for these children. Opposition has ranged from 51% to 65% in surveys since April 2006. Support has been in the 28% to 41% range in that same period.
An overwhelming 83% of voters think someone should be required to prove they are legally allowed in the United States before receiving local, state or federal government services. Just 12% disagree. These findings have changed little over the past four years.
Still, 54% are concerned that efforts to identify and deport illegal immigrants will also end up violating the civil rights of some U.S. citizens. Forty-three percent (43%) don’t have that concern. This includes 25% who are Very Concerned about possible civil rights violations and 12% who are Not at All Concerned. This, too, is consistent with past surveying.
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The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on April 1-2, 2015 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
Most voters continue to believe federal government policies encourage illegal immigration.
Most voters in nearly every demographic category agree that the federal government is not aggressive enough in its deportation policies. Most also believe very strongly that someone should have to prove they are a U.S. citizen before obtaining government benefits.
Most women and men agree that a child born to an illegal immigrant in this country should not automatically become a U.S. citizen.
Voters under 40 are only slightly less supportive than their elders of more aggressive deportation policies. But they are much more likely than those 40 and over to think that a child born to an illegal alien in this country should automatically become a U.S. citizen.
Sixty percent (60%) of whites oppose automatic citizenship; 51% of blacks and 56% of other minority voters favor it.
Eighty-one percent (81%) of Republicans and 68% of voters not affiliated with either major party think the government is not aggressive enough in deporting illegal immigrants. Just 40% of Democrats agree. But then Democrats are far more concerned than the others that deportation efforts may end up violating the civil rights of some U.S. citizens.
Democrats by a 51% to 33% margin believe illegals who have American-born children should be exempt from deportation. Sixty-two percent (62%) of GOP voters and 60% of unaffiliateds disagree.
Most voters continue to believe that securing the border is more important than legalizing the status of undocumented workers already here and think plans to offer legal status to such individuals will just encourage more illegal immigration.
More than half of voters remain opposed to Obama’s new plan that will allow nearly five million illegal immigrants to remain in this country legally and apply for jobs. Forty-seven percent (47%) think Congress should try to find ways to stop the president’s plan, while 41% believe Congress should allow this decision to stand.
Voters also continue to strongly support voter ID laws and don't consider them discriminatory.
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What the Chamber of Commerce, Jeb Bush and Luis Guitierrez say goes.
Yeah, but who cares what you racist hillbillies think anywise?
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You forgot La Raza and Por La Causa...they are the most important advisory groups now.
More importantly, what do Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, George Soros and the US Star Chamber want?
Politicians are in the pockets of their rich contributors. Those who contribute $million or more. What does the average American voter contribute? I rest my case.
Add in a pack of Fortune 500 or Forbes 400 companies and you see why neither major party wants to tackle illegal immigration with tough measures, they prefer Amnesty through letting people become citizens or giving them work permits.
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That was proven very clearly in Arkansas and Indiana last week.
I am 100% behind deportations. Can we start with the Democrats?
Sometimes I wish the elections were funded solely via taxes.
For example if 1% of your gross income was taxed, the Billionaires will be forced to contribute more, but they will have no influence on politicians.
They would’nt even need term limits. Politicians will self-deport after 1 or 2 terms lol.
Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans will deport anyone, the Reps will talk tough about “border security” or “putting border security first” but their real endgame after the tough preamble is the “pathway to citizenship”, “fixing the immigration system” or some other crock.
This is why I don’t get why republicans will not run against illegal immigration
“More voters than ever feel the United States is not aggressive enough in deporting those who are here illegally”
You mean John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, Kevin McCarthy, and the Chamber of Corruption have been lying to us? They told us that those of us who want to enforce the existing laws are going against the mainstream, and that we have to embrace the flooding of the country with more third-worlders.
Easy Answer, The Leadership of BOTH Parties have sold us out, The last thing any of the ruling class wants is a UNIFIED PUBLIC. Think Diversity, Tolerance...Divide and Conquer.
I PAID over $10,000 and went through an anal exam from EVERY Government Agency there is to get my WIFE a Green Card the LEGAL WAY (UK Citizen)
DEPORT ALL OF THEM and Force ALL Public Servants and Public Employees to bear the COST OF ALL ILLEGAL ALIENS Personally.
All of this was planned out along time ago, and everything happening was and is expected. We Americans are not Reproducing, The single biggest reason is TAXES, We have forced WOMEN into the Workforce to pay for LBJ’s War On The Family, So having children is a considerable expense now that WOMEN are Forced to go to work to PAY THE GOVERNMENT TAXES.
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