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Majority of U.S. citizens say illegal immigrants should be deported
(Reuters) - 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.
These results are in line with other polls in recent years, suggesting that people's views on immigration have not changed dramatically since the immigration debate reignited in Congress last month, according to Ipsos pollster Julia Clark.
"It's not Americans' views that are shifting. It is that the political climate is ripe for this discussion," after the November election when Hispanics voted overwhelmingly in favor of Democratic President Barack Obama, she said.
"Democrats feel that the time is right to capitalize on their wins and Republicans feel that they had a bad blow and are eager to reach out to Hispanics," she added.
Polls show that most Americans back immigration reform, although they often have different ideas of what that means, with some people favoring looser immigration laws while others want to see greater border security.
A group of eight U.S. senators are working on a bipartisan deal to enact immigration reform, the first major attempt since a similar overhaul died in Congress six years ago.
The senators' proposal calls for a full path to citizenship for illegal immigrants once they pay back taxes and a fine and wait in line behind others applying to become Americans.
A plan by Obama has similar provisions, but the senators want any move to relax immigration laws dependant on boosting security on the southern border.
ISSUE POLARIZES POLICYMAKERS
Attitudes toward immigration are polarized by party, according to another the Reuters/Ipsos poll. Seventy-five percent of Republicans think all or most immigrants should be deported, compared to 40 percent of Democrats who think the same.
Republican Senator John McCain, one of the eight senators in the group, had his own encounter with citizens angered by illegal immigration on Tuesday when residents of his state of Arizona complained bitterly at a town hall meeting about the lack of security on the border with Mexico.
One man asked why troops had not been deployed to the border.
"Why didn't the army go down there and stop them? Because the only thing that stops them I'm afraid to say, and it's too damn bad, is a gun," the man said,
Another resident, Keith Smith, got into a testy exchange with McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential candidate whose views on immigration have fluctuated over the years.
"Cut off their welfare and all their stuff and they'll go back," Smith said, referring to undocumented workers.
McCain had been trying to explain his position: "You're not telling these people the truth. They mow our lawns, they care for our babies, they clean . . . that's what those people do," he said.
The Arizona lawmaker, whose position on immigration hardened during the 2010 midterm elections before softening again, is a key part of the Republican side of the senators' bipartisan immigration effort.
Wednesday's Reuters/Ipsos poll was conducted Friday through Tuesday and surveyed 1,443 Americans over the age of 18.
The precision of the Reuters/Ipsos online poll is measured using a credibility interval. In this survey, the poll has a credibility interval of plus or minus 2.9 percentage points.
SOURCE: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/21/us-usa-immigration-idUSBRE91K01A20130221
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.
These results are in line with other polls in recent years, suggesting that people's views on immigration have not changed dramatically since the immigration debate reignited in Congress last month, according to Ipsos pollster Julia Clark.
"It's not Americans' views that are shifting. It is that the political climate is ripe for this discussion," after the November election when Hispanics voted overwhelmingly in favor of Democratic President Barack Obama, she said.
"Democrats feel that the time is right to capitalize on their wins and Republicans feel that they had a bad blow and are eager to reach out to Hispanics," she added.
Polls show that most Americans back immigration reform, although they often have different ideas of what that means, with some people favoring looser immigration laws while others want to see greater border security.
A group of eight U.S. senators are working on a bipartisan deal to enact immigration reform, the first major attempt since a similar overhaul died in Congress six years ago.
The senators' proposal calls for a full path to citizenship for illegal immigrants once they pay back taxes and a fine and wait in line behind others applying to become Americans.
A plan by Obama has similar provisions, but the senators want any move to relax immigration laws dependant on boosting security on the southern border.
ISSUE POLARIZES POLICYMAKERS
Attitudes toward immigration are polarized by party, according to another the Reuters/Ipsos poll. Seventy-five percent of Republicans think all or most immigrants should be deported, compared to 40 percent of Democrats who think the same.
Republican Senator John McCain, one of the eight senators in the group, had his own encounter with citizens angered by illegal immigration on Tuesday when residents of his state of Arizona complained bitterly at a town hall meeting about the lack of security on the border with Mexico.
One man asked why troops had not been deployed to the border.
"Why didn't the army go down there and stop them? Because the only thing that stops them I'm afraid to say, and it's too damn bad, is a gun," the man said,
Another resident, Keith Smith, got into a testy exchange with McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential candidate whose views on immigration have fluctuated over the years.
"Cut off their welfare and all their stuff and they'll go back," Smith said, referring to undocumented workers.
McCain had been trying to explain his position: "You're not telling these people the truth. They mow our lawns, they care for our babies, they clean . . . that's what those people do," he said.
The Arizona lawmaker, whose position on immigration hardened during the 2010 midterm elections before softening again, is a key part of the Republican side of the senators' bipartisan immigration effort.
Wednesday's Reuters/Ipsos poll was conducted Friday through Tuesday and surveyed 1,443 Americans over the age of 18.
The precision of the Reuters/Ipsos online poll is measured using a credibility interval. In this survey, the poll has a credibility interval of plus or minus 2.9 percentage points.
SOURCE: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/21/us-usa-immigration-idUSBRE91K01A20130221
you are a breath of fresh air...Thx for that!
meant to type "throwing a fit"not fir!
I live in an area with many types of fruit to be harvested.Every year there is a shortage of workers for the harvest.(White Folks) won't do it,it's too hard for them to work.A couple years back when they had decided to stiffly fine Orchardists for employing undocumented workers there was such a shortage that our gouvenor asked those seeking employment and others recieving Unemployment benefits and those whose extension were to expire to work in the harvest.They did not come...,they never do.The work is too hard for most.i was in the employment office in Wenatchee,Wa and a man was screaming about how all the wetbacks got the jobs.My group went out into a pear orchard to pick(the heaviest and trees most difficult to pick).Loe and Behold there was the man that had been throwing a fir in the office earlier.An hour or so went by and I walked through the rows looking for the outhouse and there was that man laying on the grass in the sun.I said hi howww ya doin?He said "I 'm quitin this#*##!*^%job it's too hard.
Next they give false Social Security numbers made up ones usually,that money if it can't be matched with the person or they say I didn't work there when they see the tax return hwere does that money go?Why I am sure it goes right back to the SSA and the employment insurance that was with held goes back to the State and the taxes as well.I am not so sure it costs as much as they say to have illegals here.Welfare?Foodstamps?when was the last time you applied for them?You have to have a birth certificate and social security number for each person applying for.They don't just get welfare!Send all their money home?Let's not forget that arguement.Okay what money?If they do it's not much because they spend the minimum wage they make on groceries,gas for the car,clothes for kids.Not much money left after renting or any of above.
People with strong family values and standards and Papa is the boss and to be respected and Momma is adored and respected ,Abuela yAbuelo Keepers of the family traditions.
It is only after some, not all are here for awhile do they start to take advantage of the system and do some of the other things people find disrespectful.Only after they have been here awhile and learn to emulate our behavior that things change(sometimes).Go to work in the fruit harvest or better yet everytime you eat one of those apples cherries peaches pears etc.you are supporting illegal aliens.
Next they give false Social Security numbers made up ones usually,that money if it can't be matched with the person or they say I didn't work there when they see the tax return hwere does that money go?Why I am sure it goes right back to the SSA and the employment insurance that was with held goes back to the State and the taxes as well.I am not so sure it costs as much as they say to have illegals here.Welfare?Foodstamps?when was the last time you applied for them?You have to have a birth certificate and social security number for each person applying for.They don't just get welfare!Send all their money home?Let's not forget that arguement.Okay what money?If they do it's not much because they spend the minimum wage they make on groceries,gas for the car,clothes for kids.Not much money left after renting or any of above.
People with strong family values and standards and Papa is the boss and to be respected and Momma is adored and respected ,Abuela yAbuelo Keepers of the family traditions.
It is only after some, not all are here for awhile do they start to take advantage of the system and do some of the other things people find disrespectful.Only after they have been here awhile and learn to emulate our behavior that things change(sometimes).Go to work in the fruit harvest or better yet everytime you eat one of those apples cherries peaches pears etc.you are supporting illegal aliens.
”The majority of Americans don't study history.” I agree. I’m in the Minority that loves History and just shake my head at people that believe anything taught to them without researching it out. Some people don’t want to know the “ugly truth.”
And this Generation of Blue Color Workers has become Lazy.
I blame the parents for letting them grow up with no responsibilities and letting them play Video Games/TV instead of making them go outside to play (or do yard work). I know that got a little off topic but I feel better for getting it off my chest.
Gotta leave for Work.
And this Generation of Blue Color Workers has become Lazy.
I blame the parents for letting them grow up with no responsibilities and letting them play Video Games/TV instead of making them go outside to play (or do yard work). I know that got a little off topic but I feel better for getting it off my chest.
Gotta leave for Work.
"Majority of U.S. citizens say illegal immigrants should be deported"
The majority of plantation owners thought they could use Black Africans to pick their cotton and there wouldn't be any consequences.
The majority of White South Africans thought they and their children were too good to mine their own diamonds and gold, -- and it would just go on like that forever.
The majority of Americans think it's OK for undocumented workers to work in their slaughterhouses, build their homes, wash their dishes, pick their crops, mow their lawns, and watch their children. And now, we even import our doctors, engineers, and people to write our computer code because it's too much trouble and expense to educate our own children.
The majority of Americans don't study history.
The majority of plantation owners thought they could use Black Africans to pick their cotton and there wouldn't be any consequences.
The majority of White South Africans thought they and their children were too good to mine their own diamonds and gold, -- and it would just go on like that forever.
The majority of Americans think it's OK for undocumented workers to work in their slaughterhouses, build their homes, wash their dishes, pick their crops, mow their lawns, and watch their children. And now, we even import our doctors, engineers, and people to write our computer code because it's too much trouble and expense to educate our own children.
The majority of Americans don't study history.
lol...I don't know...it just popped in my head when I was thinking of the word I wanted to say..not a word I ever use (I suppose/hope I used it correctly)
Funny how the brain works, the way things just seem to pop up.
Funny how the brain works, the way things just seem to pop up.
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