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Topic: Poll finds 6 in 10 back granting legal status to undocumented immigrants |
Poll finds 6 in 10 back granting legal status to undocumented immigrants
Associated Press, by Erica Werner and Dennis Junius
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Posted By:Ribicon, 1/23/2013 10:18:09 AM
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| Washington — More than six in 10 Americans now favor allowing illegal immigrants to eventually become citizens, a major increase in support driven by a turnaround in Republicans’ opinions after the 2012 elections. The finding, in a new Associated Press-GfK poll, comes as the Republican Party seeks to increase its meager support among Latino voters, who turned out in large numbers to help reelect President Obama in November.(Snip) In the coming weeks, he’s expected to push aggressively for ways to create an eventual pathway to citizenship for the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants already in this country.
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Comments: Official line is that there are now 11 million wonderful migrants, despite a starting point of 12 million and some 3 million streaming across the border since 2004 or so.
Poll numbers almost certainly bogus, but you have to give credit to the government-sponsored push behind "amnesty," starting in the schools.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
mythman, 1/23/2013 10:28:29 AM (No. 9134002)
On the subject of a different form of immigration,I just read on the blog CT Capitol Report here in CT that entire families are moving from Puerto Rico directly into homeless shelters in CT. Can you say "Welfare State"? After all, we have to help the most vulnerable.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
earlybird, 1/23/2013 10:29:26 AM (No. 9134005)
They didn´t poll us or anyone in our family. Did they poll you?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Mr. Hanky, 1/23/2013 10:34:11 AM (No. 9134020)
There should be a way for people who want to come here to become citizens. We should also not reward people who are here illegally.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Emmajustin, 1/23/2013 10:34:45 AM (No. 9134025)
C´mon folks, this was a poll of hollyweird rich folks (who need maids and gardeners) and guilt ridden demos (who need to ´do good´), and of course the necessary illegals and dead folks. Ya´ know, the usual demo voter pool. No way it was a poll of normal Americans.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Rotten In Denmark, 1/23/2013 10:35:28 AM (No. 9134031)
Pandering really, really works well for US doesn´t it? A polyglot of ppl who refuse to assimilate, solely here for freebies and benefity. Ain´t we grand?
Seal borders, fine employers for illegals and ZERO immigration from anywhere till we sort the primarily RAT mess out.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw, 1/23/2013 10:43:54 AM (No. 9134063)
Of course Americian´s include Mexico Central and South America. I´m all in favor of granting them legal status, legally deported that is.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
nerdowell, 1/23/2013 11:06:55 AM (No. 9134144)
Why not simply annex Mexico and drone out the cartels?
As for Puerto Ricans-- aren´t they already citizens?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Mai Bad, 1/23/2013 11:13:30 AM (No. 9134158)
Yo..yo...I thought there was already a path to citizenship for these folks?? It´s called..ENLIST IN THE ARMY, NAVY, AIR FORCE OR MARINES!! And then you make citizenship!!!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
arcady, 1/23/2013 11:18:22 AM (No. 9134179)
I call BS....unless the only place they polled was among the illegal population already here. The undocumented don´t all want to become legal. They get more benefit by being here ´temporarily´. Honestly, I´d expect this kind of a poll result from the "undocumented´ alone.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Mai Bad, 1/23/2013 11:22:13 AM (No. 9134189)
Yo..yo..As for the Puerto Ricans in Ct... The PRs were brought into Ct. in the 50´s as migrant workers in the shade grown tobacco industry. At first they were kept locked up in concentration camp conditions and were very poorly treated. Eventually, the camps were closed and the PRs assimilated in Ct. Most are good US citizens. Veterans of the armed forces. VERY GOOD warriors!! Can´t comment on the recent arrivals.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Mai Bad, 1/23/2013 11:26:47 AM (No. 9134213)
Yo..yo...Plenty of West Indians in Ct. too..Man. Only place you can get your car washed and get a complementary jerked goat sandwich... at the car wash!! They advertise on the radio...Man!!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
BaseballFan, 1/23/2013 11:34:13 AM (No. 9134238)
No poll taken among my family, #2. Anyone else?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
King of all trolls, 1/23/2013 11:42:07 AM (No. 9134268)
Say hello to permanently blue FL, AZ, CO, NV, NM Goodbye GOP. Goodbye Constitution.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
horacer, 1/23/2013 11:58:26 AM (No. 9134335)
I´d like to see the questions asked. Without them this is meaningless. Here in AZ a poll was taken asking if you´d support legal status for illegals if the border was secured. That had 67% support, but it hinged on the border being secured. I have a feeling that was part of this poll too but they´re leaving it out.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
capt scurvey, 1/23/2013 11:59:34 AM (No. 9134338)
Gotta´ be the folks who don´t have to work for a living...
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
fritzilou, 1/23/2013 12:06:02 PM (No. 9134363)
What is the guarantee that we won´t have another 12 million illegal, illiterate immigrants who will further burden our health and welfare system? So far, I have heard nothing on the building of the border fence, strict enforcement of the present immigration laws and the actual necessity of learning English and American history before you become a citizen.
I don´t know one person who would be against granting these people permanent residency, if we truly could believe that immigration issues would be fixed, but they won´t. It will be just another ´here we go again´ that fails.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Boneshaker, 1/23/2013 12:17:14 PM (No. 9134399)
Where did they take this poll - The US Senate?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
stablemoney, 1/23/2013 12:33:42 PM (No. 9134433)
Propaganda from AP. Thank you for the lies.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
KingBubo, 1/23/2013 1:15:43 PM (No. 9134549)
Well, people wouldn´t be able to find cheap labor to be nannies or lawnscapers. Crackheads are too unreliable.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
blunderbuss, 1/23/2013 1:23:38 PM (No. 9134567)
And nine out of ten pollsters privately agree amongst themselves that scientific polling is not at all scientific and inherently biased. I am talking about the loaded questions they pose, never mind the lack of true random numbers to be had. Yup that chemical rubber company random number table is bogus. They just fudge results with it anyway. Any attempts to generate a random number sequence eventually resorts to repetative patterns. Feel better now?
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Blackeagle, 1/23/2013 2:31:08 PM (No. 9134698)
“We act as if our grandparents got here legally. Don’t want to ask a single Indian about that,”
Guilty. My ancestors came here for the Social Security, free healthcare, Section 8 housing, Food-stamps, and the Obamaphones. Take all those things away and they would have all stayed home. /s
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
TexasRed, 1/23/2013 9:09:49 PM (No. 9135358)
That´s a lie - and they know it. We do to!
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