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Poll: 66% favor path to citizenship for illegals, with conditions
Some 17 percent say all illegal immigrants should be deported, and another 13 percent prefer a guest worker program that would allow immigrants to remain in the U.S. to work, but only for a limited time.
Majorities of Republicans (56 percent), independents (69 percent) and Democrats (74 percent) believe the government should allow a path to citizenship, as do majorities of whites (63 percent) and non-whites (75 percent).
Republicans (22 percent) are somewhat more likely than independents (15 percent) and Democrats (14 percent) to favor deporting all illegal immigrants.
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FoxNews is MSM now. Take their “polls” with a shaker of salt.
sauldalinsky on January 28, 2013 at 1:02 PM
‘Nuff said.
ThePrimordialOrderedPair on January 28, 2013 at 1:03 PM
But they must never be allowed to vote. That must be made firm and unchangeable.
bluegill on January 28, 2013 at 1:03 PM
If they want the right to vote they need to pay a fine and stay in the country for 18 years without getting into trouble. It’s only fair that they have to wait as along as your average citizen to get voting rights.
jawkneemusic on January 28, 2013 at 1:06 PM
Secure the border, require a citizenship test, and make English fluency mandatory and the number would probably rise to 95%.
Kataklysmic on January 28, 2013 at 1:07 PM
Propaganda for amnesty. They think if they ram amnesty down our throats quickly like Obozocare, us rubes won’t have time to speak.
sauldalinsky on January 28, 2013 at 1:07 PM
I challenge everyone who spent a fortune bringing someone (usually a wife or fiance) to the USA from Asia demand their money back. That, and an easy path to citizenship for that person.
The Rogue Tomato on January 28, 2013 at 1:07 PM
Why is it temporary guest worker or citizenship? Legalization does not require citizenship, despite what the news and the polls say. But, if we’re counting on the GOP to come up with sensible ideas and win a PR war, we’re going to be sorely disappointed.
besser tot als rot on January 28, 2013 at 1:08 PM
Its over
C’mon in all are welcome
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cmsinaz on January 28, 2013 at 1:09 PM
Because the false dilemma is a favorite tool of politicians.
Kataklysmic on January 28, 2013 at 1:10 PM
Why is this so hard?
Pass a law that says in six months employers will be fined $5000/day per illegal employed at that point and, if applicable, retroactively to the day the legislation is signed into law, and set up a crimestoppers-type phone line.
If the tip is true, the informant gets every penny of each fine that comes from the bust.
Next?
rogerb on January 28, 2013 at 1:11 PM
Pure propaganda from
FoxMurdoch News60% of voters oppose the Obama Administration’s executive amnesty to younger illegal aliens. [Breitbart News & Judicial Watch, November 2012].
52% of registered voters disapprove of President Obama’s handling of immigration issues. This poll was taken a month after the Obama Administration issued executive amnesty for two years for illegal aliens who came as children. [Washington Post/ABC, July 2012].
60% of likely voters think when it comes to immigration reform, gaining control of the border is more important than legalizing the status of illegal aliens in the United States [Rasmussen, March 2012].
55% of Americans believe stopping the flow and deporting illegal aliens should be the main focus of how the U.S. government should deal with illegal aliens. Only 42% of Americans prefer the U.S. government creating an amnesty program for illegal aliens. [CNN/ORC, November 2011].
55% of Americans oppose or strongly oppose Congress passing a bill to give some illegal aliens living in the U.S. a path to legal status. [USA Today/Gallup, January 2011].
55% of Americans somewhat oppose or strongly oppose Congress to allow illegal aliens who have ajob to apply for legal, temporary-worker status. [NBC News/Wall Street Journal, November 2010]
TxAnn56 on January 28, 2013 at 1:11 PM
I could retire.
The Rogue Tomato on January 28, 2013 at 1:12 PM
Hey sign me UP!
I say abolish the INS and declare the entire planet is US citizens now just come on over!
Send ‘em all in!
Free SH*T for ALL!
harlekwin15 on January 28, 2013 at 1:16 PM
This is push polling nonsense.
This is the danger of putting too much faith in Fox. They are as venal as the others, and they are using us for credibility.
Lonetown on January 28, 2013 at 1:18 PM
This isn’t news. Most people favor a path to citizenship including me.That path leads out of the country and into a line where immigration is handled legally.
HotAirian on January 28, 2013 at 1:20 PM
If they knew the truth, that amnesty would literally turn America into Mexico, would they have made the same choices?
Doubt it.
Rebar on January 28, 2013 at 1:21 PM
Sick of these ‘a majority’ polls. Who gives a damn? We dot live in a democracy where a mob gets to rule.
jawkneemusic on January 28, 2013 at 1:26 PM
Hmm. 14 percent of Democrats favor deporting all illegals. I wonder if that’s mostly blacks who don’t like the illegals cutting in on their share of O’s stash.
Bitter Clinger on January 28, 2013 at 1:27 PM
That’s the secret….look evidently we “evil nativist conservatives” have to wear the hair shirt for our sin of wanting Mexico’s own immigration laws as basis for our laws correct?
Here’s an idea…I am not in love with my own party that I have donated tens of thousands of bucks to over the years and volunteered and whipped turnout for call me “racist” AND I am really angry at legacy democrats for having ANY political power at all.
It looks like the GOP thinks they will get 30% of the “new and improved Americans” McCain keeps telling me about so why don’t we conservatives switch parties and ALWAYS pull for the craziest Hispanic candidate we can find?
If the GOP tries this con and like a Special Needs kid hits itself in tha hammer still getting beaten by the media and hispanic activists I say let’s make open alliance as conservatives with our new mexican buddies and help them take over the Democrats?
Ole, ole….ole ole ole
harlekwin15 on January 28, 2013 at 1:27 PM
Stay on the House Republicans.
They are in power only because of we conservatives/tea party/veterans/gun owners ect. they risk being gofer’s for Nancy Pelosi if they screw around with U.S..
This web site has up the R’s in the U.S. House who just might vote for this fraud.
http://www.alipac.us/
Sorry to say Speaker Bonehead has sold U.S. out and has his 30 peices of silver in his go home hope chest.
One Texan sorry to say is on the list Pete Sessions.. he is in a leadership position, he has to chose between the money cult in D.C. and we the people.
Call him as a priority.
Fight
APACHEWHOKNOWS on January 28, 2013 at 1:35 PM
Taxation without representation? Yay – stellar idea – now THERE is something we can build a Republic on!!
/s
HondaV65 on January 28, 2013 at 1:40 PM
Cornyn is another one to stay on. He tends to go squish and he’s the Senate Minority Whip. He’s only got a couple of vertebrae left from when he was first sworn in.
TxAnn56 on January 28, 2013 at 1:43 PM
Regulation without legislation is a bang up system as well…
Congrats Honda I am joining you in empowering the communists.
harlekwin15 on January 28, 2013 at 1:44 PM
The only just path to citizenship is to go back where you came from, apply to come here legally, wait in line, and hope we forgive you for breaking our laws in the first place.
Write down the names of those 66% and take the cost of anchor babies’ college tuition out of only their paychecks.
CrustyB on January 28, 2013 at 1:45 PM
THIS.
There’s no need to physically go hunt these people down to deport them.
Simply enforce the laws we already have & stop giving non-citizens & people here illegally benefits.
If you aren’t a citizen, no driver’s license, no college, no job, etc.
There would then be no reason for these people to come here.
Badger40 on January 28, 2013 at 1:52 PM
Oh I forgot to add that if you have a kid born here of illegals, the kid can stay if it wants.
But not the parents.
And before we got whiners chiming in, remember it is perfectly reasonable that kid go back with their parents.
If it’s good enough for Elian Gonzales to live in communist hell, via a Democrat, then the hordes of little anchor babies can go with their parents & come back here when they’ve grown up.
Badger40 on January 28, 2013 at 1:55 PM
TxAnn56
Cornyn will not even come into a room where I am at Republican deals now, he keeps an eye out for me and other like me.
He used us, my take is he will vote for any amnesty that comes around and will not run. He will not tell us until the last possible moment.
We will have to get ready as best guess they will try to get David Doworst in his job.
There are others we can win with, so the work starts now.
APACHEWHOKNOWS on January 28, 2013 at 1:57 PM
How bad is the fraud?
Example:
The “Code Welder Union” headqts. Tulsa Okla.
There are illegals who are now members of that “High Pressure Pipe Line/Refinery construction union. The work cards needed have the experiance ie the hours on the job ect. has been faked for them.
On some jobs on the pipe lines there are so many “faike ID, fake Union Card welders” that the “yard boss, ie the guy at the gate who OK’s who gets on the job site is a “coyote guy” who collects payment for the border crossing work done by the border jumping for hire work at the job site.
If and when one of the illegals get hurt on the job the on the job site “coyote makes a call for a replacement fake id welder”
Fraud is massive.
APACHEWHOKNOWS on January 28, 2013 at 2:03 PM
Note how the first paragraph is worded and the failure to link to actual poll questions. Sheer propaganda.
D.L.Mc on January 28, 2013 at 2:04 PM
Well, I guess if 66% favor bringing back slavery, that means it’s a good idea, and the right thing to do.
xblade on January 28, 2013 at 2:13 PM
I wonder how many of the folks commenting on here had parents, grand parents, or great grand parents who voted for FDR.
Once again every southern state (including Texas!) in every election voted for FDR from 1932 to 1944. The idea that Hispanics are doomed to be forever democrat voters is idiotic from a logic point of view and from a historic point of view.
William Eaton on January 28, 2013 at 2:13 PM
We do not have fifty years for sanity to return to the Republic.
The donks will destroy the first ad second amendments.
harlekwin15 on January 28, 2013 at 2:17 PM
You don;t have to win a majority, just around 35% in the short term and 40% in the long term of the Hispanic vote. The reason is the white population going to become more conservative or semi-conservative in the future. White liberals don’t reproduce, White conservatives do.
Also in 1972 the South went fully 100% for Nixon, 28 years after 1944.
William Eaton on January 28, 2013 at 2:34 PM
A guy who is keeping the NLRB in session, did not follow court orders on oil permitting, ignored his jobs council…
look whatever you want to believe that you’ll get even 20% of the “new and improved better than you Harlekwin” Americans have at it…
I cannot stop you, I mean after all I have just volunteered for 24 years donated as much money literally as I could and spoken highly of the party no matter how angry conservative friends were…
I’m sure the new and improved will make up for my loss….
me?
I am gonna go shoot “skeets” with Barry Soetoro…..
harlekwin15 on January 28, 2013 at 2:40 PM
They can go vote… in their country of citizenship.
Rebar on January 28, 2013 at 3:34 PM
Of they’ll still vote in Mexico Mi Amigo….of course our airline’s station manager in Mexico City did not get to vote there….damnedest thing….hey Honda you got an answer for that?
harlekwin15 on January 28, 2013 at 3:40 PM