Posted on 04/22/2015 8:38:17 AM PDT by xzins
American opposition to the Obama administration and GOP establishment’s extremist immigration policies is boiling at an all-time high, a broad survey of polls shows.
Sixty percent of Americans are displeased with the current levels of immigration, according to Gallup—a decline from 72 percent in 2008, when the country plunged into a recession, but an increase of six percent from 2014. The majority of adults Gallup polled, 39 percent in a plurality, said they wanted to see immigration levels decrease. Gallup presents these numbers through a partisan filter as “fodder” for Republicans, discomforted as they are by the results.
According to Pew Research Center, 69 percent of Americans want to “restrict and control”immigration rates. That’s 72 percent of whites, 66 percent of blacks, and 59 percent of Hispanics. Pew frames its questions to suggest that minorities are being somehow oppressed in America, so the results are not only indicative of support for immigration control but also a rejection of the leftist narrative that the U.S. selfishly hoards its goodiesfrom the world.
A nervous Reuters report, published before the historic 2014 midterm elections, found that support for reduced rates of immigration crushed support for an increase by a three-to-one margin, 45 percent to 17.
With reports revealing that foreign-born workers seized all newly-created jobs from 2000 to 2014, Americans sense that while low-skilled immigrants steal opportunities from Americans looking to enter the job market, highly-skilled immigrants imported on the cheap by businesses threaten to turn middle class professionals into commodities. Sixty-one percent of respondents polled by Princeton Survey Research Associates in June 2013 said we must restrict the number of highly-skilled foreign workers coming into the country, the same summer the Senate struggled to pass the Gang of Eight immigration bill to open the floodgates.
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I should have written ND.
The GOP is not tone deaf on this issue. It just fully illustrates how much they are in the tank for the Chamber of Amnesty.
Calling All Presidential Candidates: If you want to win in a landslide, do these four things:
1. Secure the border with verification and enforce current immigration laws.
2. Revoke citizenship for anyone born of illegal parents and end Anchor babies.
3. Begin massive deportation starting with those who have committed other crimes.
4. Put illegals on notice that if they wish to ever attain citizenship they must leave now. If they have to be deported they will forfeit any path to citizenship.
Someone needs to save this country from being further ravaged.
What many fail to consider is that the illegals are counted in the census thereby affecting Congressional districts and the number of electoral votes a state has. If you look at the results of Congressional races in CA, you will find fairly low voter numbers compared to other parts of the country. The turnout is affected not only because the Dems have such majorities, but many of the residents are ineligible to vote. Maxine Waters' district is two-thirds Hispanic as is Charlie Rangel's. I suspect that as more Hispanics become eligible to vote, they will lose their seats along with non-Hispanic whites.
Put illegals on notice that if they wish to ever attain citizenship they must leave now. If they have to be deported they will forfeit any path to citizenship.
They should never have the possibility of gaining citizenship period.
One-party PRI rule is next.
bttt
You are right about the level of legal immigration. That percentage is way too high. I don’t think that ratio is good for any country. We need a majority of people who are vested and have roots.
YOU are the one who educated me about the facts, and I will endeavor to spread the truth as you have.
Yes, sir.
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