Washington — A strong majority of Americans - including nearly two-thirds of Republicans - favors allowing illegal immigrants to become citizens if they pay fines, learn English and meet other requirements, a new Los Angeles Times/ Bloomberg poll has found.
That is a striking show of support for the central tenet of legislation that has stalled in the Senate amid vocal opposition from conservatives to provisions allowing such a path to citizenship.
Only 23 percent of adults surveyed opposed allowing immigrants to become legal. That bolsters the view, shared by President Bush, that the bill's opponents represent a vocal minority.
"They are willing to take jobs that our people aren't interested in, and I think this helps the economy," Joseph Simpkins, a retired dry cleaner in New Jersey who participated in the survey, said in a follow-up interview. "As long as they pay taxes, I see nothing wrong with having them become citizens."
The survey was conducted Thursday through Sunday; 1,183 adults were surveyed by telephone. The margin of sampling error was plus or minus 3 percentage points.
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Ragingbear (anonymous) says…
In other news, people on the Mexican Border favor the same thing. We just aren't saying which side of the border...
ASBESTOS (anonymous) says…
This is a bullsh poll. The rassmussen and CNN Dynamics, and a Fox poll all showed consistently 70-80% want enforcement first and only.
58% hate the bill, only 23% liked the bill, and 90% wants "path to legalization" until border security is done, illegal immigratinos is stopped. Further the polls states that illegal aliens need to be "Prosecuted" with a support of 67% in the rasmussen, 58% in the CNN, and 63% in the Fox polls.
Here is the entire LA Times/Bloomburg poll:
http://www.pollingreport.com/immigrat...
read the how the questions were asked in the LA times/Bloomberg poll. They are as leading as they get.
Notice this question:
"One proposal is to establish a point system for new immigrants that gives more weight to professional qualifications and command of English than to those having family already in the United States. Do you support or oppose this, or haven't you heard enough about it to say?"
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Support Oppose Haven't Heard Unsure
% % % %
6/7-10/07
34 23 38 5
This is against the "Chain Migrations". why did they not report this one????
""One proposal would allow undocumented immigrants who have been living and working in the United States for a number of years, and who do not have a criminal record, to start on a path to citizenship by registering that they are in the country, paying a fine, getting fingerprinted, and learning English, among other requirements. Do you support or oppose this, or haven't you heard enough about it to say?"
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Support Oppose Haven't Heard Unsure
% % % %
6/7-10/07
63 23 12 2
6/24-27/06
67 18 12 3
This is asked that "AFTER" they have done all these things then they would be allowed to stay. Notice the Senate bill was excluding all those components to legalize. Criminals got a pass.
So this is "tilted reporting" for an agenda by this rag and others that call themselves "news outlets"
THIS is supporting the opposition to the "Comprehensive reform Abortion bill".
This poll actually opposed the "Amnesty" bill that the Senate was working on.
BTW, if the Senate cannot build a fence they told us they were going to build, why would we believe them on this POS immigration bill??
They did not build the 700 miles of fence, why would they enforce this POS bill requirements????
ASBESTOS (anonymous) says…
"58% HATE the bill, only 23% liked the bill, and 90% wants "path to legalization" until border security is done, illegal immigratinos is stopped."
Should be :
"and 90% wants "path to legalization" held up until border security is done, illegal immigration is stopped."
Sigmund (anonymous) says…
I heard that Miss America was booed in Mexico City because in the talent portion of the competition she built a mile of fence along the border.