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Poll: Majority of U.S. citizens say illegal immigrants should be deported
More than half of U.S. citizens believe that most or all of the country’s 11 million illegal immigrants should be deported, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Wednesday that highlights the difficulties facing lawmakers trying to reform the U.S. immigration system.
The online survey shows resistance to easing immigration laws despite the biggest push for reform in Congress since 2007.
Thirty percent of those polled think that most illegal immigrants, with some exceptions, should be deported, while 23 percent believe all illegal immigrants should be deported.
Only 5 percent believe all illegal immigrants should be allowed to stay in the United States legally, and 31 percent want most illegal immigrants to stay.
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Yeah. I’ve “evolved” on this issue in recent months. I was a fan of making arduous barriers, but allowing some of the illegal immigrants to stay.
At this point, I think we should just deport them all. They broke tons of laws getting here and staying here, things that would send most of us to jail (you try using a fake SS number and driving around w/o insurance and see what happens).
For the few that are productive members of society, well, tough. Get in the back of the line when you get home and hope to god there’s no record of your previous felonies in the US.
And this 11 million number is driving me crazy. The number was 20 million a few years ago, and I’ve seen estimates as high as 40 million. We have no idea how many illegals are currently here, how many will arrive between now and the law being passed, how many will arrive after amnesty is granted but will say they’ve been here for 30 years…
Enough of this.
Timin203 on February 21, 2013 at 10:13 AM
That’s really surprising. But amnesty is the only winning strategy, or so the Marcobots would have it.
ddrintn on February 21, 2013 at 10:13 AM
That did not bother Bush until people started calling the White House, and this will not bother Republicans until you start calling them.
Need a dime?
DannoJyd on February 21, 2013 at 10:14 AM
So? The majority of Americans didn’t want Obamacare either.
This administration doesn’t give a rat’s patooty about what America wants or needs. It’s all about it’s leftist agenda to destroy the country.
HotAirian on February 21, 2013 at 10:15 AM
Dime schmime. ObamaPhones are the way to go now. LOL
ddrintn on February 21, 2013 at 10:18 AM
If you are in Utah you get to go first at court. When it comes time for your punishment, it goes like this. I am going to cut your fines down to $10 per violation, and if in the next 3 months you are able to get proper documentation you can come back here and submit the documentation to get your money back. Then people like me, who just simply did not have my documentation on me at the moment due to California failing to mail it to me in time gets to pay the full violation and get threatened with jail time because I noticed that illegal aliens are being treated better than citizens.
astonerii on February 21, 2013 at 10:19 AM
We didn’t control the House during Obamacare. We can stop any amnesty plan they put out. Now, whether “our side” WILL stop it is another story. They’d better stop it if they want to keep the House and have any chance at taking back the Senate.
xblade on February 21, 2013 at 10:27 AM
The argument is that we *can’t* deport 11M people; it’s just impossible. Okay, maybe so, but that doesn’t mean you don’t deport 2M, 3.4M, or whatever that can be done with very little effort.
Their attitude is that if we deport every last one of them, then we shouldn’t try at all.
Of course, this never matters if the border isn’t secured, since they can just walk right back in.
gregbert on February 21, 2013 at 10:29 AM
But Magic Marco is going to convince all of us otherwise. Watch!
ddrintn on February 21, 2013 at 10:29 AM
Please, everyone knows if we just pass amnesty and put them all on welfare, these 12-30 million illegals will immediately vote in lockstep as Republicans, just like they did after the Reagan amnesty! /
Doomberg on February 21, 2013 at 10:33 AM
That’s racist! /snark
BigGator5 on February 21, 2013 at 10:36 AM
Of course the majority support it. Until you get scenes of the illegal resident gardener with the daughter who is the Valedictorian to be at her highschool and the authorities want to send father back and she’s wailing…..
Polls like this are idiotic because we don’t live in Fantasy Land. It’s so amusing isn’t it when any politician gets pinned down about transporting even hundreds of thousands across the border that they all sort of come to the same conclusion. Even Sarah, ddrintn.
Marcus on February 21, 2013 at 10:37 AM
Facts do matter.
Almost all of them self deport ie go home 2 to 4 times a year.
Mexican hollidays, to see mom and dad, to carry the gold (cash) home, to mule drugs back on the “El Doro” etal bus lines.
Any one who is on the interstates highways that go north to south see it day by day.
Go take a look at the truck stops on and around Christmas/New Years.
Think of the “El Dora” etal bus crashes all the time, bad brakes, bad this bad that, poor maintance etal.
The Two Party Evil Money Cult in Washington D.C. has lied U.S. to this point of bankruptcy.
Now they co-incest to do this last evil.
Why,
1. Vote Slaves
2. Wage Slaves
3. Tax and Spend withholding and to shore up the broke SS system.
4. Greed
5. Every public works contract and now many of the defense contracts go to the low bidder who to get the bid must use the most illeglas and pay them the lowest.
Not that far from the old south.
It is evil to U.S. and them.
NO is the only truth to use now.
APACHEWHOKNOWS on February 21, 2013 at 10:37 AM
That’s the excuse. If we actually put sanctions on employers, and forced them to use E-verify (which is a very simple process) many would self-deport.
MoreLiberty on February 21, 2013 at 10:41 AM
heh! Does anyone know if those monitored phones even work?
I’m just sayin!
DannoJyd on February 21, 2013 at 10:43 AM
Yawn. You dont have to send them back, just put extremely punitive charges against employers who hire them – make employers use e-verify.
MoreLiberty on February 21, 2013 at 10:44 AM
Whose fault is that, the American taxpayer or the father?
Actions. Consequences.
fogw on February 21, 2013 at 10:44 AM
Oh no, we might get bad press. What are we going to do?! If only we pass amnesty, the press will finally love us.
Doomberg on February 21, 2013 at 10:48 AM
Actually, I support Marco Rubio’s plan, only because I want to see this nation burn.
BigGator5 on February 21, 2013 at 10:49 AM
Letting it Burn and Salting the earth are two separate acts. Amnesty is salting the earth and making it incapable of being redeemed. Letting it burn allows you to clean up and rebuild.
astonerii on February 21, 2013 at 10:53 AM
Republicans are so stupid. You know I remember reading a story a while back about a business in Alabama that lost some undocumented workers because of the new state law. They scrambled to find replacements and ended up getting some LEGAL immigrants who moved from a state further north. They used some type of immigrant employment service as a resource. Boehner should be down there holding a press conference and interviewing some of the workers showing how REAL immigration reform should be designed to protect employment opportunities for citizens and legal immigrants. Every time they have an interview and asked about “immigration reform” they should talk about protecting opportunities and public resources for LEGAL immigrants. It’s all about the messaging. Amnesty will get them nothing.
Wigglesworth on February 21, 2013 at 10:59 AM
Yeah, I remember people manning the ramparts when they shipped Elian Gonzalez back to Cuba complete with pictures of gun wagging SWAT teams and the iconic picture of the kid in the closet.
Nothing happened.
Oh, and then there was the “Great American Boycott” in ’06 — that’s what the media trumped it up as, LOL — when thousands took to the streets to push “Comprehensive Immigration Reform”. Sob stories were everywhere and the media was pounding on their victim drums.
Nothing happened.
Why did nothing happen? Because no one really cares. Deport ‘em if that’s what the American people want.
Punchenko on February 21, 2013 at 11:02 AM
That happens already and the majority still want illegal aliens deported.
Wigglesworth on February 21, 2013 at 11:03 AM
Well! With all this support name one Politician who has (even on his/her Facebook) come out in favor of massive involuntary deportation. This should be a no-brainer! “Magic Marco”? Why even Silly Sarah told Bill OReilly “if you’ve stayed out of trouble and are productive and work “FINE, YOU GET TO STAY”. You can go reread the transcript.
Marcus on February 21, 2013 at 11:10 AM
No surprise here.
Almost a decade of real unemployment over 20%, the nation almost bankrupt, of course Americans want to shed these parasites.
And despite the rhetoric, getting rid of them would be exceedingly easy, all that is needed is the political will.
Rebar on February 21, 2013 at 11:12 AM
Republicans talk tough when they are powerless to stop something or perhaps secretly want it to pass. They will say things like “Dead on arrival”. When Republicans actually have the power to stop something they cave.
Wigglesworth on February 21, 2013 at 11:12 AM
Awwwww. Well at least Reagan Rick wold say she has a heart, huh?
ddrintn on February 21, 2013 at 11:13 AM
If Sarah is silly, wouldn’t that make her recommendations silly?
Which is it brainiac?
fogw on February 21, 2013 at 11:17 AM
Meh. Even salting the earth is not permanent.
This nation needs to just end. It is too morally bankrupt to keep it alive at all.
BigGator5 on February 21, 2013 at 11:18 AM
Of course the majority support it. Until you get scenes of the illegal resident gardener with the daughter who is the Valedictorian to be at her highschool and the authorities want to send father back and she’s wailing…..
Polls like this are idiotic because we don’t live in Fantasy Land. It’s so amusing isn’t it when any politician gets pinned down about transporting even hundreds of thousands across the border that they all sort of come to the same conclusion. Even Sarah, ddrintn.
[Marcus on February 21, 2013 at 10:37 AM]
True, but that is because people only get one side of the story, the story isolated from everything that is not seen. For every resident gardener with a daughter who is the valedictorian at her high school here in the US, there is the story of the similar father daughter family who has been waiting 10 years in line to get their legal application to be approved so as to come here. They weren’t able to because and the line is so long because the immigration levels are too low, in most part because it depressed by illegal immigration numbers.
What also should be emphasized is that civil rights aspect of this. Our country grants foreigners the civil right, with provisos, to come here and become Americans if they eventually want to. The provisos in sum are file an application, pay a fee, wait to it to be reviewed for minimum requirements, and be approved.
Illegal immigrants scoff at that civil right, thinking their right takes precedence over not only their compatriots but those held by people of other races and ethnicities. As a result those people waiting in line have had their civil right violated. That’s what the Gang of Eight condone by their machinations in granting amnesty to illegals.
Personally, I think those waiting in line ought to file a massive class action lawsuit in US Federal Court against illegal immigrants here.
Dusty on February 21, 2013 at 11:20 AM
The Romney Campaign Failed on Immigration
The main problem with Romney is that he downplayed the two key issues that would have benefited us. Immigration. Gay marriage.
People were up in arms about those two issues, but Romney tried to sweep those two issues under the rug, and certainly not make a big noise about them and make them a central issue in the campaign. We needed to make them central, to fire up the base and independents that stayed home or even voted for Obama.
Now Many Republicans are Following in Romney’s Footsteps
Don’t “evolve” on immigration. Stick to our guns. That “missing white vote” is going to go permanently AWOL if we don’t stand up and fight on immigration. Plus, soon there would be a deluge of leftist immigrants voting … for the other side. Don’t do this disaster.
anotherJoe on February 21, 2013 at 11:26 AM
Nah, all it needs is to re-associate cause and effect, personal responsibility and consequences. That can happen with a let it burn approach where the government is no longer able to underwrite everyone’s poor decisions. This allows those with moral clarity and who live a conservative life to have the upper hand and to be the last man standing.
On the other hand, if you are working to ensure that what made America great in the past is impossible to restore ever again, what you would do is turn the nation over to socialist loving third worlders.
Your opinion is now dismissed and deemed completely worthless.
astonerii on February 21, 2013 at 11:27 AM
Name one politician working today who has gone on record favoring massive involuntary deportations. I’ll continue to wait. Tom Tancredo doesn’t count. I said “working”.
Marcus on February 21, 2013 at 11:39 AM
Without amnesty, the red states can still leave the union and form a nation under an improved, explicitly anti-progressive constitution.
With amnesty, there is zero chance of resurrecting American freedom.
Rebar on February 21, 2013 at 11:39 AM
This is so easy. Just deport the Mexican illegals first. When they howl that it’s unfair, just answer that of course it is, because that’s the standard they clearly prefer. Gotta be consistent.
Christien on February 21, 2013 at 11:40 AM
One more time.
As it is they self deport several times a year by bus and plane.
How hard would it be as a matter of fact.
Rather than spend our last dime on free “anchor baby” factories along the border, why not spend a few dimes for free bus tickets on already existing bus lines and regular bus operations now in full use?
APACHEWHOKNOWS on February 21, 2013 at 11:44 AM
But a majority also wants them granted citizenship according to other polls. Which just goes to show that these polls mean pretty much nothing because the people responding to them are extremely low information “voters” and they depend heavily on the push, context, and options of the poll questions.
besser tot als rot on February 21, 2013 at 11:49 AM
They do not all do that. Point taken though and it is one that I agree with.
Make life hard enough on them here, which is very easy and not that expensive. Make them self deport as their best option for prosperity. Build the fence and improve the visa system so we do not get this problem in the future.
astonerii on February 21, 2013 at 12:41 PM