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<![CDATA[illegal Immigration Information, News, & Activism - Polls & Surveys About Illegal Immigration]]> https://www.alipac.us/ Links to Online Polls about illegal immigration, articles, and sources of polling data. en Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:49:26 GMT vBulletin 60 https://www.alipac.us/images/alipac_styles/redwhiteblue/misc/rss.png <![CDATA[illegal Immigration Information, News, & Activism - Polls & Surveys About Illegal Immigration]]> https://www.alipac.us/ Poll: Majority of Hispanics favor MASS DEPORTATIONS of illegals 06/21/2024 https://www.alipac.us/f18/poll-majority-hispanics-favor-mass-deportations-illegals-06-21-2024-a-421467/ Sat, 22 Jun 2024 02:05:43 GMT *Poll: Majority of Hispanics favor MASS DEPORTATIONS of illegals * 06/21/2024 // Ramon Tomey (https://www.naturalnews.com/author/ramontomeydw) //... Poll: Majority of Hispanics favor MASS DEPORTATIONS of illegals

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A majority of Hispanics back the mass deportation of illegals from the U.S., according to the results of a recent opinion poll.The survey conducted by CBS News and YouGov polled 1,615 registered voters between June 5 and June 7, and had a margin of error of 3.8 points. It found that 62 percent of respondents overall would favor the federal government commencing "a new national program to deport all undocumented immigrants currently living in the U.S. illegally." Only 38 percent of respondents overall said they would oppose such a program.
The poll also found that based on ethnicity, mass deportation was popular with Hispanics (53 percent for, 47 percent against) and Whites (67 percent for, 33 percent against). Fifty-three percent of Blacks meanwhile opposed mass deportation, compared to 47 percent in favor.
The CBS News/YouGov poll's results mirror an earlier survey by Axios, whose results were published in April. It found that a majority of Americans, including 45 percent of Hispanics, support the mass deportations of illegals.
According to Newsweek, "the results of the latest survey indicate that many would back former President Donald Trump's plan to launch the largest deportation operation in U.S. history if he wins back the White House in November." (Related: Trump to launch biggest DEPORTATION effort in U.S. history if elected.)
"The polling is reflective of just how dissatisfied American voters are with the failure of both Republicans and Democrats to secure the border," said Thomas Gift, director of the Center on U.S. Politics at University College London in the United Kingdom. "Immigration is again surging to the top of the 'most important problem' list because Washington has shown itself completely ill-equipped to execute common-sense immigration enforcement."
Trump promises MASS DEPORTATIONS if elected to a second term

Mirroring Gift's remarks, immigration regularly ranks among the voters' top issues ahead of the U.S. presidential elections. Trump and incumbent President Joe Biden are set to face of in a repeat of the 2020 race.
The real estate mogul and presumptive Republican presidential nominee has made cracking down on illegal immigration a centerpiece of his campaign. This strategy, Newsweek pointed out, fueled his rise to power in 2016.
Trump expounded on his plan to address illegal immigration if elected to a second term in an April interview with Time magazine. He floated the idea of using the National Guard as part of mass deportation efforts and even insinuated the possible use of active-duty military members.
"If I thought things were getting out of control, I would have no problem using the military, per se," Trump said at the time. "We have to have safety in our country. We have to have law and order in the country. And whichever gets us there, but I think the National Guard will do the job."
Meanwhile, Biden took action earlier this month by issuing an executive order (EO) that effectively halts asylum claims at the southern border. The EO issued June 5, which limits asylum processing once encounters with migrants between ports of entry reach 2,500 daily, immediately went into effect.
Latest figures from immigration authorities found that encounters with migrants were far higher than the 2,500 limit – about 4,000 daily. Thus, the EO served as an effort on Biden's part to deflect attacks against him on his handling of immigration.
According to the incumbent Democratic chief executive, Republicans had left him with no choice but to issue the EO after GOP lawmakers – urged by Trump – shot down a bipartisan asylum reform bill. Had it passed, it would have overhauled the asylum system to provide faster and tougher immigration enforcement. But recent numbers show that Biden's EO is having little effect on the number of illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Watch former President Donald Trump explaining his biggest deportation plan against illegal immigrants to Fox News below.

This video is from the NewsClips channel on Brighteon.com.
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Sources include:
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Poll: Majority of Hispanics favor MASS DEPORTATIONS of illegals – NaturalNews.com ]]> Airbornesapper07 https://www.alipac.us/f18/poll-majority-hispanics-favor-mass-deportations-illegals-06-21-2024-a-421467/ POLL: Americans are Highly Polarized on the Immigration Question https://www.alipac.us/f18/poll-americans-highly-polarized-immigration-question-398421/ Sun, 14 Aug 2022 17:31:42 GMT *POLL: Americans are Highly Polarized on the Immigration Question* Jose Nino (https://bigleaguepolitics.com/author/jose-nino/) | Aug 13, 2022 ... POLL: Americans are Highly Polarized on the Immigration Question

Jose Nino | Aug 13, 2022

According to a Gallup poll conducted throughout July, American voters are highly polarized with regards to immigration policy. In this poll, 27% of Americans indicated that immigration should be increased. 31% preferred that immigration be maintained at the current level and 38% want it to be decreased.
In 2020, Americans’ support for increasing immigration reached an all-time high of 34%. In 2021, those figures stood at 33%.

During that same two-year timeframe, pro-immigration restriction sentiments climbed upwards by 10 points. The all-time low pro-immigration restriction figure was 28%.
In 1993 and 1995, immigration restriction was at its peak, around 65%. This came against the backdrop of former Texas Congresswoman Barbara Jordan’s decision to chair the US Commission on Immigration Reform in 1995, which recommended stronger restrictions on mass migration in order to protect American workers. Similarly, the Republican Governor of California, Pete Wilson (1991-1999), threw his support behind Prop 187, a ballot initiative that barred illegal aliens from accessing public services. The ballot initiative was passed by California voters by a vote of 59%-41%. Unfortunately, the federal courts struck this proposition down.

The desire to restrict immigration is largely driven by Republicans. Their preference for restricting immigration grew by 21 points since June 2020, when 48% manifested this sentiment. In the past few decades, views on immigration have become more polarized. In 2008, towards the conclusion of George W. Bush’s presidency, 46% of Republicans and 39% of Democrats wanted to reduce immigration.
By 2009, this gap broadened to 17 points, which has transformed into a 52 point gap in the present. 69% of Republicans support restricting immigration, whereas only 17% of Democrats support immigration restriction.

There’s a clear desire for immigration restriction among Republican voters. America First types recognize this. In light of this new data, America First nationalists should ignore the advice of the consultant class who claims that being pro-immigration restriction is electorally toxic.
Instead, they should listen to the complaints of the voters and double down on immigration restriction. It’s not only good politics but an essential move to preserve the demographic integrity of the Historic American Nation.

POLL: Americans are Highly Polarized on the Immigration Question - Big League Politics ]]> Airbornesapper07 https://www.alipac.us/f18/poll-americans-highly-polarized-immigration-question-398421/ POLL: growing numbers of Hispanics are Becoming Weary of the Democratic Party’s Mass https://www.alipac.us/f18/poll-growing-numbers-hispanics-becoming-weary-democratic-party%92s-mass-398212/ Mon, 08 Aug 2022 06:40:06 GMT *POLL: growing numbers of Hispanics are Becoming Weary of the Democratic Party’s Mass Migration Agenda* Jose Nino... POLL: growing numbers of Hispanics are Becoming Weary of the Democratic Party’s Mass Migration Agenda

Jose Nino | Aug 7, 2022

According to a recent poll conducted by Axios/Ipsos, a growing number of Hispanics are starting to disagree with the Democratic Party’s open borders agenda.
A slight majority (51%) believe it’s more important to “help immigrants escape poverty and violence in their home countries and find success here”, than “it is to secure America’s borders and help American citizens.” By contrast, 43% of Hispanic voters believe in the latter point of securing the border.

The preference to assist immigrants flee poverty and violence is largely expressed by Hispanics of Central American origin and first-generation Hispanics. For example, Hispanic Americans of Central American origin largely favor 73.4% to 18.5% provide assistance to migrants. Hispanic Americans ages 18-29 favor 60.4% to 34.2%
Among second-generation or third-generation Hispanics are more evenly divided. The numbers for ages 30-49 break down to 51.9% to 42%, while Hispanic Americans ages 50-64 are more concerned with securing the border at a margin of 48.1% to 47.2%.

Hispanic Americans ages 65 and older overwhelmingly favor securing the border to the tune of 56.5% to 34.5%
As for national origins, Cuban Americans are overwhelmingly in favor of securing the border. Cuban Americans prioritize border security to the tune 58.2% to 38.7%. Other Spanish-speaking nationalities prioritize border security 51.6% to 44.1%. Similarly, Hispanic Americans of Puerto Rican origin want the government to tackle border security by a margin of 49.8% to 45.1%.

Overall, there is a growing segment of America’s Hispanic population that’s not down with open borders. Contrary to popular belief, many Hispanics care about issues outside of immigration.

Many Hispanics are of working class economic status and see the effects of mass migration firsthand. Namely, depressed wages and labor displacement.
That will undoubtedly make them hesitant about supporting mass migration. Moreover, there are significant numbers of Hispanics who aren’t into ethnic pandering or are part of the emerging Hispanic “conquistador” oligarchy who is addicted to cheap labor and wants to transform the US into a de facto latifundia, just like the countries they and their families hail from.

America First must stress the importance of border security and restricting both legal and illegal immigration. In doing so, they may paradoxically pick up a significant amount of Hispanic votes. Not all Hispanics are enthusiastic boosters of mass migration.

POLL: growing numbers of Hispanics are Becoming Weary of the Democratic Party’s Mass Migration Agenda - Big League Politics ]]> Airbornesapper07 https://www.alipac.us/f18/poll-growing-numbers-hispanics-becoming-weary-democratic-party%92s-mass-398212/ Less than quarter of voters say illegal immigrants should be counted in assigning Con https://www.alipac.us/f18/less-than-quarter-voters-say-illegal-immigrants-should-counted-assigning-con-379255/ Sat, 01 Aug 2020 01:42:18 GMT *Less than quarter of voters say illegal immigrants should be counted in assigning Congress seats* The poll found opposition to including illegal... Less than quarter of voters say illegal immigrants should be counted in assigning Congress seats

The poll found opposition to including illegal immigrants comes from 72% of White voters, 67% of Black voters, and 57% of Hispanic voters.

July 31 2020
By Carrie Sheffield

Just 23% of U.S. voters say illegal immigrants should be included in population counts for determining representation in Congress. Seventy-percent (70%) disagree, according to a new Just the News Daily Poll with Scott Rasmussen.

The poll results come as California, Florida and Texas would each lose a House seat if President Trump succeeds in getting illegal immigrants removed from the 2020 U.S. census, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis.

Rasmussen noted that the poll found opposition to including illegal immigrants comes from 72% of White voters, 67% of Black voters, and 57% of Hispanic voters. Opposition also comes from 88% of conservatives, 68% of moderates, and 51% of liberals.

A solid plurality (41%) of all voters believe all legal residents should be included (both citizens and others).

Just the News Daily Poll respondents were asked "Representation in Congress is based upon population--the larger the state is the more representatives it has. When it comes to determining representation in Congress, who should be included in the population counts?" They replied as below:

29% Only US citizens
41% US citizens and others who are legal residents
23% Everybody who lives in a state, including illegal immigrants
7% Not Sure

The national survey of 1,200 registered voters was conducted July 23-25, 2020 by Rasmussen, a polling veteran. Margin of sampling error: +/- 2.8% for full sample.

https://justthenews.com/politics-pol...-congress-seat ]]> Jean https://www.alipac.us/f18/less-than-quarter-voters-say-illegal-immigrants-should-counted-assigning-con-379255/ Rasmussen Shows 2:1 Opposition to Cheap Labor Legal Immigration https://www.alipac.us/f18/rasmussen-shows-2-1-opposition-cheap-labor-legal-immigration-376414/ Tue, 31 Dec 2019 03:30:28 GMT Illegal immigration and amnesty are mentioned so putting this in our poll section ~~~ Dec. 30, 2019 Neil Munro Voters overwhelmingly want... Illegal immigration and amnesty are mentioned so putting this in our poll section
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Dec. 30, 2019
Neil Munro

Voters overwhelmingly want companies to train and hire Americans before importing more legal immigrants or visa workers.

But liberals are far more likely than conservatives to say Congress should allow companies to import more immigrants to take jobs sought by U.S. graduates and sidelined workers, according to Rasmussen’s December survey of 1,250 likely voters.

The survey asked voters:

When businesses say they are having trouble finding Americans to take jobs in construction, manufacturing, hospitality and other service work, what is generally best for the country? Is it better for businesses to raise the pay and try harder to recruit [Americans]?

Sixty percent of likely voters agreed it is “better for businesses to raise the pay and try harder to recruit non-working Americans even if it causes prices to rise.”

Just 22 percent of Americans, including 28 percent of liberals and 16 percent of conservatives, say “better for the government to bring in new foreign workers to help keep business costs and prices down.”

Seventeen percent said they were “not sure.”

The Rasmussen survey also asked the respondents: “Should Congress increase the number of foreign workers taking higher-skill U.S. jobs, or does the country already have enough talented people to train and recruit for most of those jobs?

Sixty-one percent of likely voters agreed that “the country already has enough talented people to train and recruit for most of those jobs.” That pro-Americans perspective was backed by 73 percent of Republicans and 72 percent of conservatives, but only 48 percent of Democrats and 39 percent of liberals.

Just 27 percent of voters — including 21 percent of conservatives, 42 percent of liberals, and 38 percent of Democrats — said Congress should “increase the number of foreign workers taking higher-skill U.S. jobs.”

The answers showed that a plurality of liberals — 42 percent to 39 percent — prefer to import foreign graduates than to help American graduates get better jobs, pay, and training. The growing support for cheap labor migration reflects the growing support among “woke” Democrats for the migration-induced “demographic change” that is helping Democrats to win more elections.

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Almost 50% of U.S. employees got higher wages in 2019, up from almost 40% in 2018.
That's useful progress - but wage growth will likely rise faster if Congress stopped inflating the labor supply for the benefit of business. http://bit.ly/2SyaLg7
7:20 AM - Dec 24, 2019

The public’s deep hostility to outsourcing helps to explain why many legislators are so reluctant to publicly vote for business’s demands for more foreign workers for jobs in farmwork, labor, or college graduate work. For example, GOP Sen. Mike Lee has been unable to clear away opposition to his S.386 bill which would encourage more graduates from India to take jobs from American graduates.

But this strong public opposition to wage-cutting migration also co-exists with a sympathetic attitude to migrants, even towards illegal migrants.

This sympathy is spurred by pro-migrant media coverage, but also by many Americans’ respect for hard-working migrants. For example, 45 percent of likely voters said they favor “giving lifetime work permits to most of the estimated 12 million illegal residents of all ages who currently reside in the United States.”

However, 51 percent oppose an amnesty — often because many Americans recognize the likely impact on wages.

The race of respondents had a modest impact on the work-related answers.

For example, 62 percent of whites, 57 percent of Hispanics, and 52 percent of blacks agreed that it is “better for businesses to raise the pay and try harder to recruit non-working Americans, even if it causes prices to rise.”

The 61 percent of likely voters who agreed that “the country already has enough talented people to train and recruit for most of those jobs” included 63 percent of whites, 55 percent of Hispanics, and 54 percent of blacks.

Education status had modest impacts.

The importation of more foreign graduates is opposed by 56 percent of people with college degrees and by 66 percent of people without college degrees.

Thirty-one percent of people with college degrees agreed that the government should “increase the number of foreign workers taking higher-skill U.S. jobs.”

The number is relatively high, given that business groups lower Americans’ salaries by keeping a workforce of roughly 1.5 million visa workers in college-level jobs throughout the United States.

Neil Munro
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So 500 US graduates lost jobs b/c huge Indian outsourcer imported 500 workers via the B-1 no-work visa.
A private lawsuit exposed the crime.
No response by feds. A Democrat AG set a tiny $800k fine.
IOW, woke US grads robbed by bipartisan open borders. http://bit.ly/2Z1vPwB
5:17 PM - Dec 18, 2019

Many respondents said they were not sure which answers they preferred. The “not sure” respondents likely include people who do not care and people who want to conceal their views. Evangelical Christians were the least likely to give a “not sure” answer.

Neil Munro
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NYT admits ICE deportations boost wages for Americans.
But it downplays those blue-collar gains to help shield the elites' self-serving preference for migration and diversity.http://bit.ly/2tebyrA
10:28 AM - Dec. 29, 2019

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...l-immigration/ ]]> Jean https://www.alipac.us/f18/rasmussen-shows-2-1-opposition-cheap-labor-legal-immigration-376414/ Mentions of Immigration as Top Problem Surpass Record High - Now Top Overall Problem https://www.alipac.us/f18/mentions-immigration-top-problem-surpass-record-high-now-top-overall-problem-374534/ Wed, 24 Jul 2019 01:16:45 GMT Politics July 23, 2019 *Mentions of Immigration as Top Problem Surpass Record... Politics July 23, 2019

Mentions of Immigration as Top Problem Surpass Record High

by Jeffrey M. Jones

Story Highlights

27% identify immigration as the most important U.S. problem
Surpasses record 23% naming the issue in June
A small number of issues have ever eclipsed 27% mentions since 2001

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- After hitting a new high last month, mentions of immigration as the most important problem facing the U.S. increased further to 27% in July. Since Gallup began regularly recording mentions of the issue in 1993, immigration has been cited by an average of 6% of Americans, though it has been higher in recent years. There have been occasional, typically short-lived, spikes when major immigration events were occurring.

The July 1-12 poll was conducted as the U.S. government continues to struggle to handle the large number of Central American immigrants attempting to enter the U.S. via the U.S.-Mexico border. The issue was brought into sharper focus in early July when Democratic congressional leaders and Republican Vice President Mike Pence made separate trips to facilities that are holding the migrants as they await asylum hearings. While Republican and Democratic leaders' assessments of the situation differed, both acknowledged overcrowded conditions and characterized the situation at the border as a crisis.
Republicans have typically been more likely than Democrats and independents to name immigration as the most important problem, and that is still the case. In the latest survey, 42% of Republicans, 20% of independents and 20% of Democrats mention immigration.
All political groups are more likely to mention immigration now than earlier this year. In March, when a 2019-low 16% of Americans identified immigration as the most important problem, 31% of Republicans, 14% of independents and 6% of Democrats did.
Immigration Now Top Overall Problem

Immigration now sits at the top of the "most important problem" list for just the fourth time in Gallup's trend, having also done so in July 2014, July 2018 and November 2018. The issue edged out the government, which has been a fixture at or near the top of the list throughout the latter part of the Obama administration and the Trump administration.
Race relations or racism (7%) and healthcare (7%) are the only other two issues to receive as many as 5% of mentions this month.
Most Important U.S. Problem, July 2019
What do you think is the most important problem facing this country today? [OPEN-ENDED]

	% Mentioning

Immigration	27
The government/Poor leadership	23
Race relations/Racism	7
Healthcare	7
Environment/Pollution/Climate change	4
Unifying the country	4
Economy in general	3
Poverty/Hunger/Homelessness	3
Ethical/Moral/Religious decline	3
Education	3
Lack of respect for each other	3
Issues receiving 3% or more mentions
Gallup

Consistent with Americans' positive evaluations of the U.S. economy, only 14% name an economic issue such as the economy in general, unemployment or the gap between the rich and poor. The historical low in mentions of economic issues as the most important problem is 12%, registered in February and in September 2018.
Only Five Other Issues Have Topped 27% Mentions Since 2001

Gallup has asked the "most important problem" question since 1939, and has done so on a monthly basis since March 2001. Over the past 19 years, only five other issues have been mentioned at some point by at least the 27% who named immigration this month. These include the economy in general, unemployment, the situation in Iraq, terrorism and the government.
Issues With High Percentages of Mentions as Most Important U.S. Problem, 2001-2019 Gallup Polls

	Number of polls with 27%+ mentions	Highest % mentioning in one poll	Last poll with 27%+ mentions

Economy in general	58	58% (Nov 2008	November 2012
Situation in Iraq	21	38% (Feb 2007)	December 2007
Unemployment	17	39% (Sep 2011)	September 2012
The government	6	35% (Feb 2019)	March 2019
Terrorism	5	46% (Oct 2001)	October 2002
Immigration	1	27% (Jul 2019)	July 2019
Gallup has asked about the most important U.S. problem monthly since March 2001 for a total of 223 separate measurements.
Gallup

Since 2001, the economy has met or exceeded the percentage naming immigration this month on 58 separate occasions, most recently in November 2012. This includes 58% naming the economy in November 2008 during the Great Recession and financial crisis, the highest percentage naming any issue over the past 19 years.
Unemployment has reached the 27% threshold 17 times since 2001, topping out at 39% in September 2011, when the U.S. unemployment rate was 9.0% and President Barack Obama was proposing a major jobs program.
The government has been cited by 27% or more of Americans as the most important problem six times, with the high of 35% coming in February of this year, shortly after the longest government shutdown in U.S. history ended.
During the height of the U.S. war with Iraq between 2003 and 2007, the situation in Iraq routinely ranked as the top problem facing the country. On 21 occasions, the percentage naming it was at least 27%, with a high of 38% in February 2007.
Shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, 46% of Americans named terrorism as the most important problem facing the country. Mentions of terrorism surpassed 27% on four other occasions between 2001 and 2002.

Implications

Americans' concern about immigration has reached a high point in Gallup's measurement of the issue, at least based on the percentage of U.S. adults who perceive the issue to be the most important problem facing the country. Dramatic images of overcrowded detention centers and acknowledgments from politicians of both political parties that the issue is a crisis have likely contributed to the rise in concern. And even as Democrats and Republicans continue to dispute the best way to address the situation, Congress has passed and President Donald Trump has signed legislation to spend over $4 billion in additional funds to address the situation at the border.
That recent law marked a rare instance when the parties found common ground on immigration since a bipartisan attempt to address the issue in the mid-2000s failed. Obama, who was unable to get a Republican-led Congress to pass immigration reform, resorted to executive orders to attempt to institute new immigration policies. Federal courts blocked that course of action. Immigration was arguably the top issue in Trump's 2016 campaign, and he, too, has been unable to pass favored legislation on the issue, including the full amount of funding he sought to extend the border wall between the U.S. and Mexico. Many of his attempts to circumvent the legislative process have also been blocked by Congress and the courts.
As such, immigration is likely to remain a top issue for Americans, particularly at points when large numbers of immigrants or asylum seekers are attempting to enter the country illegally.

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]]> Airbornesapper07 https://www.alipac.us/f18/mentions-immigration-top-problem-surpass-record-high-now-top-overall-problem-374534/ Poll: Moderate Democrats Turned Off by Party’s 2020 Open Borders Agenda https://www.alipac.us/f18/poll-moderate-democrats-turned-off-party%92s-2020-open-borders-agenda-374527/ Tue, 23 Jul 2019 09:59:22 GMT *Poll: Moderate Democrats Turned Off by Party’s 2020 Open Borders Agenda* 76... Poll: Moderate Democrats Turned Off by Party’s 2020 Open Borders Agenda
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PEDRO PARDO/Contributor/AFP/Getty Images John Binder 22 Jul 2019

The Democrat Party’s open borders, mass immigration platform for the upcoming 2020 presidential election is turning off moderate Democrat voters, a new poll reveals.

For months now, Democrats running in the presidential primary have largely presented platforms promoting amnesty for all 11 to 22 million illegal aliens, free health care for illegal aliens, and the decriminalization of illegal immigration at the United States-Mexico border.
This open borders agenda, spearheaded by a select group of white liberals in the party’s ranks, is causing a rift among Democrats.
The latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist Poll finds that a plurality of 47 percent of moderate Democrat voters say providing free health care to illegal aliens is a “bad idea” as opposed to 43 percent who say it is a “good idea.”
For voters who describe themselves as “moderates,” a majority of 56 percent called free health care for illegal aliens a bad idea, and only about 37 percent said it is a good idea.
Even among the Democrats’ most ardent liberals, the policy of having American taxpayers pay for the free health care of illegal aliens does not come with sweeping, unanimous support. While 57 percent of voters who call themselves “very-liberal Liberals” said they support the plan, about 35 percent — more than one-in-three — said they oppose such a plan.
Decriminalizing illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border is even more unpopular with moderate Democrats. Nearly six-in-ten moderate Democrat voters say decriminalizing illegal border crossings is a bad idea, and only 34 percent say it is a good idea.
Similarly, nearly seven-in-ten moderates call the effort to decriminalize illegal immigration a bad idea, with only about 25 percent of moderates supporting the plan.
As is free health care for illegal aliens, decriminalizing illegal border crossings does not garner overwhelmingly broad support from the Democrats’ far-left base. For very-liberal Liberal voters, about 50 percent say decriminalizing illegal immigration is a good idea, and about 41 percent call it a bad idea.
Republicans and swing voters, on the other hand, are much more unified in their disliking of the Democrats’ open borders platform for the upcoming election.
For example, nearly seven-in-ten swing voters and 95 percent of Republicans called free health care for illegal aliens a bad idea, with less than 30 percent of swing voters and only six percent of Republicans supporting the plan.
When it comes to decriminalizing illegal immigration, about 68 percent of swing voters and 87 percent of Republicans call the effort a bad idea, while less than 25 percent of swing voters and ten percent of Republicans say it is a good idea.
U.S. taxpayer-funded free health care for illegal aliens would likely cost Americans upwards of $660 billion over ten years. Similarly, decriminalizing illegal immigration would likely drive millions of foreign nationals to the U.S.-Mexico border every year and allow them to enter the country, take a job, and resettle permanently in American communities.
The poll surveyed 1,336 American adults between July 15 and July 17 and has a margin of error of +/- 3.5 percentage points.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.

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]]> Airbornesapper07 https://www.alipac.us/f18/poll-moderate-democrats-turned-off-party%92s-2020-open-borders-agenda-374527/ Poll: Majority of Americans Want Mass Deportations of Illegal Aliens Following Congre https://www.alipac.us/f18/poll-majority-americans-want-mass-deportations-illegal-aliens-following-congre-374013/ Sun, 07 Jul 2019 22:54:39 GMT The Border is Broken, so is the Congress, Deport Image:...

The Border is Broken, so is the Congress, Deport

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Poll: Majority Wants Mass Deportations Following Congressional Inaction

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AP Photo/J. David Ake JOHN BINDER 7 Jul 2019

A majority of Americans want mass deportations of illegal aliens if Congress fails to reach a deal this week that closes loopholes in the country’s asylum system that allow mass flows of foreign nationals to pour through the U.S.-Mexico border.

The latest Harvard/Harris poll finds that 51 percent of American voters say they support mass deportations of the 11 million to 22 million illegal aliens living in the U.S. should Congress fail to reach a deal that closes loopholes in the asylum system.
More than 8-in-10 Republican voters, as well as more than 5-in-10 swing voters, said President Trump should carry out mass deportations of illegal aliens following Congressional inaction. Nearly 9-in-10 Trump supporters said the same.
Working and middle class Americans, those earning $75,000 a year or less, support mass deportations of illegal aliens if Congress fails to act by a majority of 53 percent. A majority of Americans 35 to 49-years-old also support mass deportations following inaction from Congress.
Democrats and voters who supported failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton are the least likely of any demographic group to support mass deportations of illegal aliens.
The poll comes as Trump delayed a nationwide plan to mass deport thousands of illegal aliens who have final orders for removal. Former acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Thomas Homan accused acting Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kevin McAleenan of leaking the plans to mass deport illegal aliens in order to halt the operation.
Trump, at the time, said he would give Congress two weeks to strike a deal to close loopholes in the asylum system. The two-week mark comes this week and Congress has yet to announce a plan that would pass both the Democrat-controlled House and the Republican-controlled Senate.
Today, there are approximately 11 million to 22 million illegal aliens living across the U.S. The majority are concentrated in California, New York, Texas, and Florida. As Breitbart News has reported, the illegal alien population over the last decade has increased by 60,000 in Massachusetts, by 45,000 in Maryland, and by 5,000 in each North Dakota and South Dakota.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...Myn8d0Orj6MlNI ]]> Airbornesapper07 https://www.alipac.us/f18/poll-majority-americans-want-mass-deportations-illegal-aliens-following-congre-374013/ Poll: Majority of Canadians Want Lower Immigration https://www.alipac.us/f18/poll-majority-canadians-want-lower-immigration-373415/ Tue, 18 Jun 2019 16:12:10 GMT Poll: Majority of Canadians Want Lower ImmigrationJune 18, 2019 Chris Tomlinson Image:... Poll: Majority of Canadians Want Lower Immigration

June 18, 2019

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A new survey has revealed that the majority of Canadians want the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to decrease the number of new immigrants to the country.

The new survey, produced by Léger, revealed that 63 percent of Canadians agree that the Liberal government should “prioritize reducing the number of immigrants entering Canada,” compared to only 37 percent who believe the opposite, La Presse reports.

Trudeau’s Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen, who originally came to Canada as a refugee from Somalia, expressed concern over the results of the survey claiming that concerns over infrastructure and housing could be solved with investment rather than reducing new arrivals.
On Friday, Mr Hussen announced a new migration policy that will attempt to entice new arrivals to smaller cities and towns to fill labour shortages due to low birth rates and young people moving elsewhere.
“The equation is quite simple. Attracting and retaining newcomers with the needed skills equals a recipe for success for Canada’s rural and northern communities,” Hussen said.

Rural Economic Development Minister Bernadette Jordan added that the programme would make rural Canada more “vibrant” saying, “I’m pleased we are able to introduce this new pilot to continue experimenting with how immigration can help ensure the continued vibrancy of rural areas across the country.”

According to the Léger survey, the highest number of Canadians for reducing migration, 64 percent, were from Quebec where the populist Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) passed new immigration laws over the weekend that include residency permits being linked to passing a French language and values test.

The CAQ won a historic provincial election victory last year after promising smaller government and protecting the Quebec border against illegal migrant crossings.
François Legault, leader of the CAQ, argued for tougher migration policies last year saying, “We do not want to keep too many people who do not accept our language, our values and to participate in the workforce.”

Prime Minister Trudeau’s Liberals have seen a dramatic fall in the polls since the 2015 national election and face a revitalised Conservative Party who currently leads by just over six percent in the polling averages.

]]> GeorgiaPeach https://www.alipac.us/f18/poll-majority-canadians-want-lower-immigration-373415/ POLL: 30 Percent of Americans Want to Halt ALL Immigration – legal and illegal. https://www.alipac.us/f18/poll-30-percent-americans-want-halt-all-immigration-%96-legal-illegal-373357/ Sun, 16 Jun 2019 00:00:43 GMT *POLL: 30 Percent of Americans Want to Halt ALL Immigration* Nearly one third of all Americans want to halt all forms of immigration – legal and... POLL: 30 Percent of Americans Want to Halt ALL Immigration

Nearly one third of all Americans want to halt all forms of immigration – legal and illegal.

Published 1 day ago on Jun 14, 2019
By Peter D'Abrosca

A May poll released on June 4 by Cygnal shows that almost 30 percent of Americans surveyed want to halt all immigration to the United States, both legal and illegal.

“The survey covered a range of topics, including the 2020 presidential election, immigration, the economy, and various public policy issues, and examined underlying correlations between those issues and U.S. voters that hold populist views,” according to Cygnal.

The poll also tested sentiments on populism in the United States, finding that 39 percent of Americans held positive views of populism.

“The anti-establishment sentiments helping to fuel the populist wave can be found on the left, center, and right of the ideological spectrum. This is incredibly evident when looking at the survey findings,” Chris Kratzer, Cygnal’s VP of Research and Analysis said.

“The unifying factor is that nearly all populists believe that ordinary citizens have been betrayed by the elites of this country, regardless of their party affiliation.”

The poll also showed a clear partisan split on the direction of the country, with 75 percent of Republicans saying America is on the right track, and 84 percent of Democrats saying that America is on the wrong track.

“President Donald Trump has a good shot at re-election because 47% of voters believe the economy is better now than a year ago.

As long as the economy continues to appear strong, so will the President’s electoral chances,” Cygnal’s founder and CEO Brent Buchanan said.

https://bigleaguepolitics.com/poll-3...l-immigration/ ]]> Airbornesapper07 https://www.alipac.us/f18/poll-30-percent-americans-want-halt-all-immigration-%96-legal-illegal-373357/ POLL: NEW YORK STATE VOTERS OVERWHELMINGLY OPPOSE ILLEGALS GETTING DRIVERS LICENSES https://www.alipac.us/f18/poll-new-york-state-voters-overwhelmingly-oppose-illegals-getting-drivers-licenses-370553/ Mon, 18 Mar 2019 18:20:57 GMT 11:41 AM 03/18/2019 Kerry Picket A majority of New York State voters, according to a newly released Siena College poll, overwhelmingly oppose... 11:41 AM 03/18/2019
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A majority of New York State voters, according to a newly released Siena College poll, overwhelmingly oppose illegal immigrants receiving driver’s licenses.

Sixty-one percent of New York voters say they do not believe non-citizens should receive driver’s licenses. While 49 percent of Democrats support issuing driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants, 84 percent of Republicans and 71 percent of Independents oppose such a policy.

“Overwhelmingly, Republicans and Independents, upstaters and downstate suburbanites, oppose allowing undocumented immigrants to get driver’s licenses. Democrats and New York City voters are closely divided on the issue,” Siena Research’s Steven Greenberg said. “White voters strongly oppose; black and Latino voters support it by small margins.”

New York’s WGRZ TV conducted their own poll last year when New York State Democrat lawmakers pushed for licenses for illegal immigrants and their viewers overwhelmingly opposed it.

NY Immigration Coalition: Credit: WGRZ TV Video Screen Shot

Siena’s numbers were released one month after immigrant advocate groups did another push for driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants now that Democrats have the majority of both chambers in the New York State legislature.

In 2017, a bill that would have allowed licenses to illegal immigrants was filed in the lower chamber by Democratic Assemblyman Francisco Moya, but the legislation died in the state Senate, which was controlled by the Republicans at the time.

New York State Comptroller Scott Stringer is an advocate for the measure.

“For many of us, a driver’s license is nothing more than a piece of plastic tucked in between our credit cards, but for undocumented immigrants it means better job opportunities, a safe way to get your child to school, and to the hospital in an emergency – all without fear of deportation during a routine traffic stop,” Stringer said at a rally with Fiscal Policy Institute (FPI) officials in Manhattan last month, according to The New York Post.

Stringer and FPI pointed to reports that showed the state would rack up extra money totaling $9.6 million through additional driver’s license fees.

The new Siena poll, however, shows a majority of New York State voters don’t like the leftward direction the New York State is going in, either. Just 36 percent say that the Empire State is not moving too far to the political left, while 51 percent says the state is moving too politically leftward.

“While Democrats disagree, a strong majority of independents and an overwhelming majority of Republicans say that Democratic control of the governor’s mansion and both houses of the legislature are moving the state too far to the left,” Greenberg said. “Two-thirds of voters — including a majority of Democrats — say that Democratic control of the state makes it harder for businesses to be successful.”

This Siena College Poll was conducted between March 10-14 by telephone calls conducted in English to 700 New York State registered voters. It has an overall margin of error of +4.2 percentage points.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/03/18/n...vers-licenses/ ]]> Jean https://www.alipac.us/f18/poll-new-york-state-voters-overwhelmingly-oppose-illegals-getting-drivers-licenses-370553/ Gallop Poll CEO: ‘Forty-Two Million Seekers of Citizenship or Asylum are Watching to https://www.alipac.us/f18/gallop-poll-ceo-%91forty-two-million-seekers-citizenship-asylum-watching-369822/ Mon, 11 Feb 2019 00:08:30 GMT Gallop Poll CEO: ‘Forty-Two Million Seekers of Citizenship or Asylum are Watching to Determine exactly When and How to Make the Move’ to the US ... Gallop Poll CEO: ‘Forty-Two Million Seekers of Citizenship or Asylum are Watching to Determine exactly When and How to Make the Move’ to the US

February 10, 2019

The chairman and CEO at Gallup has found that 42 million Latin Americans, and 158 million people worldwide, currently want or plan to migrate to the United States.

Jim Clifton, chairman and CEO at Gallup, asserted his findings based on the results of the company’s global migration survey.

In his commentary about the organization’s findings, Clifton asked, “what if there were 42 million at the border?”

“Gallup asked the whole population of Latin America. There are 33 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. Roughly 450 million adults live in the region. Gallup asked them, ‘Would you like to move to another country permanently if you could?’,” Clifton explained.

They found that a whopping 27% of the 450 million adults that live in the region said “yes.”

“Forty-two million seekers of citizenship or asylum are watching to determine exactly when and how is the best time to make the move,” Clifton wrote. “This suggests that open borders could potentially attract 42 million Latin Americans. A full 5 million who are planning to move in the next 12 months say they are moving to the U.S.”

President Donald Trump responded to the poll on Twitter on Sunday, saying that it would be a disaster and declaring, once again,that we need a wall now.

Gallup Poll: “Open Borders will potentially attract 42 million Latin Americans.” This would be a disaster for the U.S. We need the Wall now!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 10, 2019

“I don’t think the Dems on the Border Committee are being allowed by their leaders to make a deal. They are offering very little money for the desperately needed Border Wall & now, out of the blue, want a cap on convicted violent felons to be held in detention!” Trump added in a subsequent tweet.

The Epoch Times reports, “the United States remains the most popular destination for people who want to permanently leave their countries. The second most popular destination, Canada, was more than three times less popular.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/02/gallop-poll-ceo-forty-two-million-seekers-of-citizenship-or-asylum-are-watching-to-determine-exactly-when-and-how-to-make-the-move/ ]]> GeorgiaPeach https://www.alipac.us/f18/gallop-poll-ceo-%91forty-two-million-seekers-citizenship-asylum-watching-369822/ <![CDATA[Poll: Trump voters will mutiny if the wall isn't built, faces 43 percent drop in supp]]> https://www.alipac.us/f18/poll-trump-voters-will-mutiny-if-wall-isnt-built-faces-43-percent-drop-supp-369520/ Tue, 29 Jan 2019 18:41:47 GMT Poll: Trump voters will mutiny if the wall isn't built, faces 43 percent drop in support

by Paul Bedard
| January 29, 2019 11:37 AM

President Trump’s base of supporters remains on his side and even supportive of his temporary deal with Democrats to end the partial government shutdown, but are warning the White House that they will mutiny if the border wall isn’t built.

In a new poll of 2,700 Trump voters, nearly half would abandon him if “he fails to secure border security funds,” said a new survey by Ear to the Ground, a project by The Frontier Lab.

“The grassroots activists represented in this survey were fundamental to the president’s election. While they are still with him today, it appears the president better build the wall or his support will significantly suffer,” said Mark Meckler, president of Citizens for Self-Governance.

“Politicians have a habit of not listening. Hopefully the president will keep his ear to the ground,” added Meckler.

The survey of Trump 2016 primary and general election voters shows that he is at a problem point in his presidency.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/w...rop-in-support ]]> Jean https://www.alipac.us/f18/poll-trump-voters-will-mutiny-if-wall-isnt-built-faces-43-percent-drop-supp-369520/ POLL: Should the Pentagon have announced that troops are leaving the border? https://www.alipac.us/f18/poll-should-pentagon-have-announced-troops-leaving-border-366696/ Tue, 20 Nov 2018 01:18:45 GMT *POLL: Should the Pentagon have announced that troops are leaving the border?* BY TEAM DML / NOVEMBER 19, 2018 / Image:... POLL: Should the Pentagon have announced that troops are leaving the border?

BY TEAM DML / NOVEMBER 19, 2018 /

In response to the news last month that several migrant caravans consisting of thousands of Central Americans were headed toward the United States, President Trump ordered the military to be deployed to the Mexico-U.S. border, in an effort to stop them.

Several thousand of the migrants have already arrived in Tijuana, and officials are predicting the number will soon swell to at least 10,000.

However, on Monday, Army Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Buchanan said in an interview that all 5,800 deployed active duty troops should be home by Christmas, with some heading home in the coming days, according to Politico:

The general overseeing the deployment told POLITICO on Monday that the first troops will start heading home in the coming days as some are already unneeded, having completed the missions for which they were sent. The returning service members include engineering and logistics units whose jobs included placing concertina wire and other barriers to limit access to ports of entry at the U.S.-Mexico border.

This statement comes amid several reports of migrants saying they plan to wait until thousands more arrive in Tijuana, then all rush the border at once, in an effort to overwhelm authorities and push their way across into the United States.

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https://dmlnews.com/poll-pentagon-an...eaving-border/ ]]> GeorgiaPeach https://www.alipac.us/f18/poll-should-pentagon-have-announced-troops-leaving-border-366696/ Majority of GOP Voters: Trump, Congress Should Deal with Illegal Immigration First https://www.alipac.us/f18/majority-gop-voters-trump-congress-should-deal-illegal-immigration-first-366516/ Fri, 16 Nov 2018 05:19:05 GMT November 15, 2018 John Binder A majority of Republican voters say there is no other issue more important than illegal immigration, telling... November 15, 2018
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A majority of Republican voters say there is no other issue more important than illegal immigration, telling pollsters that the problem at the U.S.-Mexico border should be addressed immediately.

A new Rasmussen Reports poll finds that about 52 percent of GOP voters say illegal immigration should be the first issue addressed by Congress and President Trump following the midterm elections.

A plurality of nearly 30 percent of all likely voters say illegal immigration should be first on the list of priorities for Trump and the Congress, while 66 percent of Trump’s base of support — those who say they strongly approve of the populist president — want illegal immigration addressed immediately.

CNN exit polls from the recent midterm elections reveal that a majority of swing state voters support Trump’s nationalist immigration agenda of building a wall on the southern border, reducing legal immigration levels, and stemming the inflow of foreign guest workers to open up U.S. jobs for American citizens.

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CNN Exit Poll: Majority of Swing State Voters Support Trump’s Nationalist Immigration Agenda

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3:52 PM - 13 Nov 2018

Despite calls from the Trump base to focus on immigration, the president and the Republican-controlled Congress have recently turned their sights on a prison reform agenda that is favored by the billionaire GOP mega-donor Koch brothers, the George Soros-funded ACLU, and both political establishments.

The push for prison reform instead of a legislative agenda on Trump’s immigration platform comes as a caravan of 7,000 to 10,000 Central Americans heads to the U.S.-Mexico border. Hundreds from the caravan have already begun scaling the border fence in southern California, as captured in video footage.

Should illegal and legal immigration levels continue, the U.S. population will hit an unprecedented 404 million residents by 2060. The current legal immigration system would be responsible for importing 75 million new immigrants in the next four decades.

Every year the U.S. admits more than 1.5 million foreign nationals, with the vast majority deriving from family-based chain migration, whereby newly naturalized citizens can bring an unlimited number of foreign relatives to the U.S. In 2016, the legal and illegal immigrant population reached a record high of 44 million. By 2023, the Center for Immigration Studies estimates that the legal and illegal immigrant population of the U.S. will make up nearly 15 percent of the entire U.S. population.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...gration-first/ ]]> Jean https://www.alipac.us/f18/majority-gop-voters-trump-congress-should-deal-illegal-immigration-first-366516/ 6-in-9 Swing District Voters: Keep Migrant Caravan Out of the Country https://www.alipac.us/f18/6-9-swing-district-voters-keep-migrant-caravan-out-country-365782/ Fri, 02 Nov 2018 15:57:37 GMT November 1, 2018 John Binder Nearly 6-in-9 likely voters in swing districts across the United States say federal officials must keep a migrant... November 1, 2018
John Binder

Nearly 6-in-9 likely voters in swing districts across the United States say federal officials must keep a migrant caravan of at least 10,000 Central Americans out of the country.

In a new poll by NumbersUSA, about 65 percent of likely voters in swing districts this election cycle say the migrant caravan headed to the U.S. to overwhelm the country’s asylum and immigration system needs to be kept out of the country.

About 40 percent say “all of them” in the caravan should be stopped “from entering the country.” About 25 percent of likely swing district voters say the U.S. should “require them to remain in Mexico until their asylum hearing.”

Only 18 percent of likely swing district voters support the country’s current asylum process, which allows illegal border crossers and asylum-seekers to enter the U.S. while awaiting their hearings.

About 12 percent of likely swing district voters said the caravan should be allowed “to move freely around the country until their asylum hearing,” showing little support for the Democrats’ preferred goal of hemispheric open borders and mass immigration.

As Breitbart News reported, the plurality of likely voters in Indiana, Florida, and Arizona — all of which are seeing hotly contested Senate races — say the migrant caravan is a threat to the nation.

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A majority of likely voters in Indiana say the U.S. “should not try to help” the migrants in the caravan, while a majority of Arizona likely voters say the same. By a slim margin, likely Florida voters say that while the caravan is a threat to the country, the U.S. should try to help the migrants.

Likely voters’ concerns with the caravan come as Breitbart News has extensively reported on the violent, chaotic, and criminal nature of the mass group of Central Americans. Nearly two weeks ago, the caravan stormed through Mexico by tearing down the country’s border fence with Guatemala.

During an interview with Fox News, one of the migrants with the caravan admitted he had been previously deported from the U.S. for a conviction of attempted murder. Days later, Mexican officials warned that a second group of Central American migrants were building Molotov cocktails to be used against authorities at international borders.

Most recently, Mexican authorities say they arrested two Honduran nationals with the migrant caravan after they say the individuals shot at them while crossing through Chiapas, Mexico.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...f-the-country/ ]]> Jean https://www.alipac.us/f18/6-9-swing-district-voters-keep-migrant-caravan-out-country-365782/ Voters Say Government Should Stop Hondurans At the Borde https://www.alipac.us/f18/voters-say-government-should-stop-hondurans-borde-365326/ Sun, 28 Oct 2018 03:40:19 GMT Voters Say Government Should Stop Hondurans At the Border

Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Voters agree with President Trump’s efforts to stop the horde of Hondurans marching through Mexico from entering the United States illegally.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 51% of Likely U.S. Voters believe the U.S. government should stop all the Hondurans headed this way from entering the country. Thirty-eight percent (38%) disagree and say the government should allow them to enter temporarily until each of their cases can be individually reviewed. Eleven percent (11%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

This is nearly identical to findings in April when another caravan of Central Americans was moving through Mexico toward the United States.

Ninety-three percent (93%) of voters who Strongly Approve of Trump’s job performance want all the Hondurans kept out. Among those who Strongly Disapprove of the job the president is doing, 69% think the migrants should get case-by-case reviews.
Eighty percent (80%) of all voters have been closely following news reports about the Honduran group that is coming here illegally, with 46% who are following Very Closely. By comparison, 88% were closely following news reports about the Senate confirmation hearings of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, with 66% who were following Very Closely.

Among voters following news reports about the Honduran caravan Very Closely, 61% think they all should be stopped.

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Voters continue to believe illegal immigration is a major problem, and few feel the government is doing enough to handle it.

Seventy-nine percent (79%) of Republicans and 53% of voters not affiliated with either major political party say the government should stop all of the Hondurans. Sixty-four percent (64%) of Democrats think they should be allowed in temporarily until their cases are reviewed.

Republicans are following news reports about the Honduran march more closely than Democrats and unaffiliated voters.

Men feel more strongly than women that they all should be prevented from entering the United States illegally. Those under 40 are more supportive of a case-by-case review than their elders.

Blacks are more welcoming to the Honduran migrants than whites and other minority voters, but they are also following news reports about them less closely.
For Republicans, illegal immigration is the most important issue in the upcoming elections, although this survey was taken before the Kavanaugh controversy.

Most voters think it’s better for the United States to tightly control who comes into the country.
Right now, voters think it’s easier for illegal immigrants to get into the United States and stay here than in much of the rest of the world.
The Republican-led Congress has produced yet another big spending bill that fails to fund the president’s border wall even though a sizable majority of GOP voters supports the project.

Most voters (52%) think illegal immigrants are a significant strain on the U.S. budget, and 45% believe illegal immigration increases the level of serious crime in America.

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]]> GeorgiaPeach https://www.alipac.us/f18/voters-say-government-should-stop-hondurans-borde-365326/ Should President Trump close the U.S.-Mexico Border if Mexico does not stop the carav https://www.alipac.us/f18/should-president-trump-close-u-s-mexico-border-if-mexico-does-not-stop-carav-364844/ Sat, 20 Oct 2018 17:34:54 GMT *Should President Trump close the U.S.-Mexico Border if Mexico does not stop the caravans of South American migrants attempting to enter our... Should President Trump close the U.S.-Mexico Border if Mexico does not stop the caravans of South American migrants attempting to enter our country through Mexico?

https://amac.us/poll/close-mexico-bo...ign=newsletter ]]> patbrunz https://www.alipac.us/f18/should-president-trump-close-u-s-mexico-border-if-mexico-does-not-stop-carav-364844/ 2018 Poll: Immigration ‘Most Important’ Issue for GOP Voters https://www.alipac.us/f18/2018-poll-immigration-%91most-important%92-issue-gop-voters-364767/ Fri, 19 Oct 2018 14:51:23 GMT 2018 Poll: Immigration ‘Most Important’ Issue for GOP Voters

October 18, 2018

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Immigration is the “most important” 2018 midterm issue for Republican voters, according to a national survey released on Thursday.

The Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll found that 25% of Republicans ranked immigration as the most important midterm issue. “Economy and Jobs” (23%) was second, followed by health care (17%), “gun policy” (17%), and “tax cuts and reform” (7%).

President Donald Trump has tried to single-handedly make illegal immigration a top issue for voters while he has barnstormed across the country for Republicans in recent weeks.

Trump has branded Democrats as the party of “abolish ICE” and “open borders” and has said that Democrats want to turn America into a “friendly sanctuary for murderous thugs” like MS-13 gangsters.

At a Thursday evening Montana rally, Trump said he would be willing to send the military to the U.S.-Mexico border “because of the illegal immigration onslaught brought by the Democrats” and referred to the 2018 midterm elections as “an election of the caravan,” referring to the thousands of migrants headed to the United States from Honduras.

“This will be an election of [Justice Brett] Kavanaugh, the caravan, law and order, and common sense,” Trump said, blaming Democrats for wanting more illegal immigrant migrants to enter the country because they “figure everybody coming in is going to vote Democrat.”

Earlier on Thursday, Trump tweeted about the migrant caravan and accused Democrats of leading the “assault on our country by Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, whose leaders are doing little to stop this large flow of people, INCLUDING MANY CRIMINALS, from entering Mexico to U.S…..”

“In addition to stopping all payments to these countries, which seem to have almost no control over their population, I must, in the strongest of terms, ask Mexico to stop this onslaught – and if unable to do so I will call up the U.S. Military and CLOSE OUR SOUTHERN BORDER!..,” Trump added. “The assault on our country at our Southern Border, including the Criminal elements and DRUGS pouring in, is far more important to me, as President, than Trade or the USMCA. Hopefully Mexico will stop this onslaught at their Northern Border. All Democrats fault for weak laws!”

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...or-gop-voters/ ]]> GeorgiaPeach https://www.alipac.us/f18/2018-poll-immigration-%91most-important%92-issue-gop-voters-364767/ Hispanic Voters Favor Strong Border: Poll https://www.alipac.us/f18/hispanic-voters-favor-strong-border-poll-363954/ Sat, 06 Oct 2018 04:05:08 GMT October 5, 2018 BY PETR SVAB Majority of Hispanic voters want secure borders and stronger immigration law enforcement, according to a June 24-25... October 5, 2018
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Majority of Hispanic voters want secure borders and stronger immigration law enforcement, according to a June 24-25 poll.

Almost two thirds (62 percent) of the voters preferred secure borders to “basically open borders,” the Harvard-Harrison poll found, while 52 percent believed current border security is inadequate. Over half (51 percent) also agreed immigration law enforcement needs to be stricter, rather than looser.

Majority of the voters (57 percent) believed people who illegally cross the border should not be prosecuted for breaking the law. But majority (52 percent) also believed that those crossing illegally should be sent home. Even when parents with children cross into the U.S. illegally, 53 percent of Hispanic voters believed they should be sent home.

One of the poll questions also spelled out the current Republican proposal for an immigration reform, calling it “a Congressional deal that gives undocumented immigrants brought here by their parents work permits and a path to citizenship in exchange for increasing merit preference over preference for relatives, eliminating the diversity visa lottery, and funding barrier security on the U.S.-Mexico border.”

Almost two thirds (64 percent) of the Hispanic respondents favored the plan.

Some prominent Democrats, like Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, have recently called for nixing the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency.

Trump welcomed Democrats to run with the idea, predicting it will cost them elections.

“That’s going to be their platform. Open borders, which equals crime. I think they’ll never win another election so I’m actually quite happy about it,” he said.

ICE is responsible for capturing, detaining, and deporting illegal aliens in the interior of the country. It’s also responsible for investigating national security issues such as human trafficking, drug and arms trafficking, and transnational gangs.

Americans strongly supported maintaining ICE, with 69 percent against disbanding, the poll showed. Hispanic voters, however, were split 50-50 on the issue.

The poll asked about 1,450 adults filtered for registered voters.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/hispan...l_2581192.html ]]> Jean https://www.alipac.us/f18/hispanic-voters-favor-strong-border-poll-363954/ Rasmussen Poll: 60 Percent of GOP Voters Say Immigration Is ‘Very Important’ in Midte https://www.alipac.us/f18/rasmussen-poll-60-percent-gop-voters-say-immigration-%91very-important%92-midte-361937/ Wed, 29 Aug 2018 00:49:06 GMT Rasmussen Poll: 60 Percent of GOP Voters Say Immigration Is ‘Very Important’ in Midterms

August 28, 2018

Neil Munro

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Sixty percent of Republicans, 32 percent of Democrats and 32 percent of non-partisan voters say the issue is “very important,” while only 5 percent of Republicans and 14 percent of Democrats say the issue is “not at all important.”

However, the vast majority of voters also say politicians are insincerely posturing on the issue, according to the August 26-27 poll of 1,000 likely voters.

Rasmussen asked: “Do most politicians raise immigration issues to address real problems or to get elected?.”

Only 17 percent of voters, 29 percent of Republicans and 16 of Democrats said politicians talk about immigration “to address real problems.”
But 71 percent of likely voters and 77 percent of Democrats say politicians talk about immigration issues “to get elected.”

The poll asked about illegal immigration. However, it avoided the more important issue of legal immigration which has a far larger impact on Americans — and gets far less attention from the establishment media and from politicians.

Each year, four million young Americans enter the workforce — but the government imports 1 million legal immigrants, replenishes the population of roughly 1.5 million white-collar guest workers, and does little to repatriate the resident population of roughly 8 million illegal immigrants.

Overall, the Washington-imposed economic policy of economic growth via immigration shifts wealth from young people towards older people by flooding the market with cheap foreign labor.

That process spikes profits and Wall Street values by cutting salaries for manual and skilled labor offered by blue-collar and white-collar employees. The policy also drives up real estate prices, widens wealth-gaps, reduces high-tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, hurts kids’ schools and college education, pushes Americans away from high-tech careers, and sidelines at least 5 million marginalized Americans and their families, including many who are now struggling with opioid addictions. Immigration also pulls investment and wealth away from heartland states because investment flows towards the large immigrant populations living in the coastal states.

https://www.breitbart.com/2018-elect...tant-midterms/ ]]> GeorgiaPeach https://www.alipac.us/f18/rasmussen-poll-60-percent-gop-voters-say-immigration-%91very-important%92-midte-361937/ AP-NORC Poll: Few Democrats favor liberal cry to abolish ICE https://www.alipac.us/f18/ap-norc-poll-few-democrats-favor-liberal-cry-abolish-ice-361850/ Mon, 27 Aug 2018 15:14:58 GMT *AP-NORC Poll: Few Democrats favor liberal cry to abolish ICE* Image:... AP-NORC Poll: Few Democrats favor liberal cry to abolish ICE

FILE - In this June 25, 2018, file photo, a mother migrating from Honduras holds her 1-year-old child as surrendering to U.S. Border Patrol agents after illegally crossing the border near McAllen, Texas. The women paid a smuggler to get ... more >
By THOMAS BEAUMONT and HANNAH FINGERHUT - Associated Press -
Monday, August 27, 2018

WASHINGTON (AP) - The rallying cry from some liberals to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement isn’t a likely winner this election year, as a new poll finds only a quarter of Democrats support eliminating the agency that carried out the Trump administration’s policy of separating immigrant children from their parents.

But even as they don’t want to fully dismantle ICE, 57 percent of Democrats view the agency negatively, including nearly three-fourths of those who describe themselves as liberal, according to a poll released Monday by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

The findings demonstrate tension among Democrats about how to address the crisis at the border that intensified in June when the Trump administration instituted a family separation policy to deter illegal immigration.

Some potential Democratic presidential contenders, such as Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, backed getting rid of ICE in response to the separations. Others, including Sen. Kamala Harris of California, urged a rethinking of the agency, but stopped short of calling for its abolition.

President Donald Trump has seized on the Democratic criticism of ICE to paint the party as weak on immigration and national security. The administration reversed its separation policy amid an international outcry, but hundreds of children remain separated from their families.

Overall, opinions about ICE are divided along partisan lines. While a majority of Democrats view the agency negatively, Republicans largely have favorable views of ICE.

A sizable chunk - a full one-third of Americans - are too unfamiliar with the agency to form an opinion.

Dianne Stone, a 68-year-old retired bus driver from Charlotte, North Carolina, said ICE should be modified but not scrapped. After spending decades living in Southern California, she said ICE ought to be less of a law enforcement agency and more dedicated to helping immigrants negotiate the border.

“Yes, there are more drugs and crime coming across the border than years ago. But you can’t keep kids in cages,” Stone said. “ICE can be part of a more sophisticated vetting process where you’re keeping criminals out.”

The public is largely critical of the administration’s progress in reuniting families. Nearly 6 in 10 think the Trump administration is doing too little, though 8 percent say it’s doing too much, and a third think it is doing enough.

Anna Lee Lish was appalled by the scenes of children separated from their parents at the border in June, but does not blame ICE for the problem.

“I thought it was horrific,” said the 60-year-old social worker from Pocatello, Idaho. “ICE was just doing its job, following orders. But it’s the policy of separating families that needs to change, not abandon ICE.”

The partisan divide is dramatic: 85 percent of Democrats say the administration is doing too little to reunite children with their families, compared to 22 percent of Republicans. Still, that means nearly a quarter of Republicans feel the administration should be doing more.

Reviews of Trump’s overall handling of immigration are also divided. More than three-quarters of Republicans have largely favorable views of the president’s immigration performance while more than 90 percent of Democrats disapprove. Nearly two-thirds of independent voters said they don’t approve of Trump’s handling of the issue.

And while the Trump administration seeks to curb legal immigration, Americans are more likely to say they want to keep it at existing levels (42 percent) than to want the number of immigrants let in to be increased (29 percent) or decreased (28 percent).

The push to abolish ICE became something of a litmus test among liberal Democrats this summer after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez unseated a 10-term party leader for a New York congressional seat in part by campaigning on the issue. But it hasn’t proved a political winner in other races.

Democrat Brent Welder, endorsed by Ocasio-Cortez in July, backed ending ICE but was narrowly beaten in an August primary in suburban Kansas. And no Democrats running in competitive Senate races in November have advocated abolishing ICE.

More common among prominent Democrats is the suggestion the agency be reformed.

Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, a Democrat running for Senate in Republican-heavy Arizona with its 378-mile (608-kilometer) border with Mexico, said last month that “ICE does provide some important functions,” though she has recommended changes to the agency.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news...ral-cry-to-ab/ ]]> Newmexican https://www.alipac.us/f18/ap-norc-poll-few-democrats-favor-liberal-cry-abolish-ice-361850/ POLL: Should the employer of Mollie Tibbett’s illegal alien killer also be charged in https://www.alipac.us/f18/poll-should-employer-mollie-tibbett%92s-illegal-alien-killer-also-charged-361706/ Thu, 23 Aug 2018 00:36:12 GMT POLL: Should the employer of Mollie Tibbett’s illegal alien killer also be charged in her death?

August 22, 2018

DML

Tuesday, missing Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts was finally found… dead in a corn field, brutally murdered by Cristhian Rivera, a 24-year-old illegal alien man from Guayabillo in Guerrero, Mexico.

Rivera has been in the United States illegally for an estimated 4 to 7 years, officials said. He reportedly followed Mollie when she was out on a jog on July 18, attacked her, killed her, and then dumped her body in a corn field and covered her with corn stalks.

According to the DailyMail, Rivera was doing seasonal work for a local dairy farm in Brooklyn, and lived with a number of other migrant workers on a secluded farmhouse owned by their employer. Rivera lived there with his girlfriend, Iris Monarrez, and their baby.

Neighbors said the building housed a ‘revolving door’ of hired migrant workers but that they had never caused any problems.

Reportedly, FBI agents went Monday night to question Rivera’s co-workers, most who only spoke Spanish.
‘There was a panic when they arrived because they thought at first that it was ICE launching a raid,’ a local source told DailyMail.com.

‘A lot of these people arrive with forged documents. But it turned it was the FBI and it was about Mollie.’
On July 1 – less than 3 weeks before Mollie was killed, an Iowa paper, The Gazette, published a column about the need for mandatory E-Verify to be implemented.

According to details reported, the local dairy farm is well-known for hiring illegal alien workers.

PLEASE TAKE OUR POLL BELOW – WE WANT YOUR OPINION. Is it time employers are held accountable?

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Officials said Tuesday that Rivera has been charged with first degree murder, and is being held on a federal immigration detainer. He is on custody on a $1 million bond.

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https://dmlnews.com/poll-employer-mo...charged-death/ ]]> GeorgiaPeach https://www.alipac.us/f18/poll-should-employer-mollie-tibbett%92s-illegal-alien-killer-also-charged-361706/ Poll: Immigration Trumps Economy as Voters’ Top Issue Ahead of Midterms https://www.alipac.us/f18/poll-immigration-trumps-economy-voters%92-top-issue-ahead-midterms-360344/ Fri, 06 Jul 2018 21:09:03 GMT Poll: Immigration Trumps Economy as Voters’ Top Issue Ahead of Midterms

Immigration is the most important issue shaping Americans’ votes before November’s midterm elections, according to a poll released Thursday from Reuters/Ipsos.

July 6, 2018

Robert Kraychik

Across a poll of 2,252 registered voters, 14.8 percent identified immigration as the most important issue determining their vote. The economy was selected as the top issue among 13.9 percent of polled registered voters.

Reuters highlighted the following results from its poll, in which registered voters were polled between June 28 and July 2:

Nearly fifteen percent of the poll’s respondents said immigration was the primary issue that would determine their votes in November.
Nearly fourteen percent of the poll’s respondents said the economy was the primary issue shaping their November votes.
Nearly twenty-six percent of registered Republican identified immigration as their primary issue of concern likely to determine their votes, an increase of 14 percentage points relative to a similar poll conducted in early June.
Over fifteen percent of registered Democrats identified healthcare as their primary issue of concern, making it Democrats’ top issue.
Fourteen percent of registered Democrats listed the economy as their primary issue of concern
Less than seven percent of registered Democrats selected immigration as their top issue of concern

A partisan divide exists on attitudes toward President Donald Trump’s views on immigration, with 81 percent of Republicans approving the president’s approach to the issue with 84 percent of Democrats disapproving.

https://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...d-of-midterms/

]]> GeorgiaPeach https://www.alipac.us/f18/poll-immigration-trumps-economy-voters%92-top-issue-ahead-midterms-360344/ Harvard-Harris Poll: 69% of Registered Voters Oppose Abolishing ICE https://www.alipac.us/f18/harvard-harris-poll-69%25-registered-voters-oppose-abolishing-ice-360195/ Tue, 03 Jul 2018 02:05:21 GMT By Jonathan Mizrahi | July 2, 2018 | 12:15 PM EDT A recent Harvard-Harris poll found that 69% of registered voters do not believe that the... By Jonathan Mizrahi | July 2, 2018 | 12:15 PM EDT

A recent Harvard-Harris poll found that 69% of registered voters do not believe that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) should be abolished, an idea that some congressional Democrats and liberal activists are proposing.

In the June 24-25 online survey of 1,448 registered voters, Harvard-Harris asked, ‘”Do you think that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, known as ICE, should be disbanded or not?”

According to the poll, 69% of the respondents said ICE should not be disbanded; 31% said the immigration enforcement arm should be disbanded.

The poll also asked, “Do you think we need stricter or looser enforcement of our immigration laws?”

To this question, 70% of the people answered that the United States should have “stricter” enforcement of its immigration laws; 30% said “looser” enforcement.

For the online survey, Harvard-Harris contacted 1,448 registered voters. “The results reflect a nationally representative sample,” said Harvard-Harris. “Results were weighted for age within gender, region, race/ethnicity, marital status, household size, income, employment, political party, political ideology, and education where necessary to align them with their actual proportions in the population. Propensity score weighting was also used to adjust for respondents’ propensity to be online.”

“Mark Penn and Stephen Ansolabehere supervise the Harvard Harris Poll,” according to the group’s website. “Penn served as President Clinton’s pollster for 6 years. Ansolabehere is Professor of Government at Harvard and runs the the Harvard Center for American Political Studies (CAPS). The Harvard-Harris Poll is a collaboration of Harvard CAPS and The Harris Poll.”

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article...abolishing-ice ]]> Jean https://www.alipac.us/f18/harvard-harris-poll-69%25-registered-voters-oppose-abolishing-ice-360195/ Ex-Clinton aide: 84 percent of Americans support turning undocumented immigrants over https://www.alipac.us/f18/ex-clinton-aide-84-percent-americans-support-turning-undocumented-immigrants-over-360153/ Sun, 01 Jul 2018 03:20:48 GMT *Ex-Clinton aide: 84 percent of Americans support turning undocumented immigrants over to authorities* June 28, 2018 Prominent Democratic... Ex-Clinton aide: 84 percent of Americans support turning undocumented immigrants over to authorities

June 28, 2018

Prominent Democratic pollster Mark Penn said on Thursday that a vast majority of Americans don’t really support so-called sanctuary cities that shield immigrants in the country illegally from deportation.

Penn, who served as chief strategist for Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign, revealed that 84 percent of Americans favor turning undocumented immigrants over to federal agents.

“I asked them, ‘Do you think notifying ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] would in fact increase crime because it would inhibit people from reporting crimes or does it decrease crimes because it takes criminals off the street,’ and they overwhelming said ‘decrease,’ ” Penn told Hill.TV's “Rising.”

Penn said the response was strikingly “out of sync” with what the public might think about sanctuary cities. The broad term refers to cities that don’t fully cooperate with federal authorities when it comes to turning over people in the country illegally to immigration enforcement.

“When someone’s arrested, they expect someone will notify federal immigration authorities just as they would expect someone who violates state tax law will find out that they notified the IRS,” the pollster said.

President Trump has made sanctuary cities a frequent target during his administration, arguing that they make the U.S. less safe. In January, Trump signed an executive order in an effort to withhold money from sanctuary cities, though some of that money did still go to those cities.

Some cities protested Trump’s crackdown. Mayors, including New York’s Bill de Blasio and then-New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, boycotted a meeting with Trump following his executive order. De Blasio called the order a "racist assault" on sanctuary cities.

But it looks like Trump has achieved a victory — at least for now.

A federal appeals court on Tuesday temporarily narrowed the scope of a nationwide injunction against the Trump administration's attempt to withhold grants from sanctuary cities.

— Tess Bonn

http://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/394...er-authorities ]]> GeorgiaPeach https://www.alipac.us/f18/ex-clinton-aide-84-percent-americans-support-turning-undocumented-immigrants-over-360153/ Poll: Majority of Americans, Swing Voters in Battleground Districts, Support Trump’s https://www.alipac.us/f18/poll-majority-americans-swing-voters-battleground-districts-support-trump%92s-359940/ Tue, 26 Jun 2018 03:57:12 GMT *Poll: Majority of Americans, Swing Voters in Battleground Districts, Support Trump’s Border Wall* June 25, 2018 John Binder A majority of... Poll: Majority of Americans, Swing Voters in Battleground Districts, Support Trump’s Border Wall

June 25, 2018
John Binder

A majority of Americans and swing voters in battleground districts across the United States say they support President Trump’s most central campaign promise of building a border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border to end illegal immigration.

In the latest CBS News/YouGov poll, a majority of 55 percent of swing voters said they believe the border wall is a “good idea that can probably be completed” or a “good idea that should be tried, even if it can’t be completed,” as Trump wants.

Likewise, about 51 percent of all likely voters in those battleground districts said the same, supporting the construction of a border wall on the southern border.

Among Republican voters in the battleground districts, the border wall is extremely popular, garnering nearly 90 percent approval.

Despite overwhelming support for the border wall from Republican voters and a majority of support from Americans and swing voters, the Republican-controlled Congress has failed to fund any portion of Trump’s wall.

Months ago, the Republican Congress sent Trump an omnibus spending bill that did not only not fund a border wall, but barred the populist president from building a wall on the southern border from the proven-effective prototype walls, as Breitbart News reported.

Likely midterm voters have repeatedly told pollsters that they see immigration as one of the defining issues of the country and are vastly supportive of reducing legal immigration levels. Most recently, a majority of swing voters say immigration to the U.S. has made life “worse” in America.

The same poll revealed that a plurality of black Americans in swing districts who say immigration has changed their neighborhoods believe that immigration is making life in America “worse” for them.

About 36 percent of black Americans said immigration has changed their communities and roughly 45 percent of those black Americans say the mass importation of mostly immigrants from Central America is making them worse off.

Currently, the U.S. receives more than 1.5 million legal and illegal immigrants every year, with more than 70 percent coming to the country through the process known as “chain migration,” whereby newly naturalized citizens can bring an unlimited number of foreign relatives to the U.S. In the next 20 years, the current U.S. legal immigration system is on track to import roughly 15 million new foreign-born voters. Between seven and eight million of those foreign-born voters will arrive in the U.S. through chain migration.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...s-border-wall/ ]]> Jean https://www.alipac.us/f18/poll-majority-americans-swing-voters-battleground-districts-support-trump%92s-359940/ CBS/YouGov Poll: Black Americans Vastly Prefer Deporting Illegal Alien Families over https://www.alipac.us/f18/cbs-yougov-poll-black-americans-vastly-prefer-deporting-illegal-alien-families-over-359918/ Mon, 25 Jun 2018 18:13:38 GMT *CBS/YouGov Poll: Black Americans Vastly Prefer Deporting Illegal Alien Families over ‘Catch and Release’* Image:... CBS/YouGov Poll: Black Americans Vastly Prefer Deporting Illegal Alien Families over ‘Catch and Release’

June 25, 2018
John Binder

A plurality of black Americans say illegal alien families arriving at the United States-Mexico border should be deported together back to their home country.

In a CBS News/YouGov poll, black Americans vastly favor President Donald Trump’s plan to deport entire illegal alien families over the Democrats’ preferred “Catch and Release” policy where adult illegal aliens arriving with minor children are released into the interior of the U.S.

Nearly 40 percent of black Americans say illegal alien families ought to be deported together back to their home country, while only 20 percent said the families should be released into the country while they await their immigration and asylum hearings.

Likewise, a majority of white Americans say illegal aliens should be deported together, while only 20 percent support the Democrats’ “Catch and Release” policy of releasing illegal alien families into the U.S.

Ahead of the 2018 midterm elections, House and Senate Democrats have made the unpopular “Catch and Release” policy their official position on illegal immigration.

After Trump signed an executive order that keeps illegal aliens families detained together while they await their immigration and asylum hearings, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi called all detention of illegal alien families a “form of child abuse,” as Breitbart News reported.

In the Senate, every Democrat has signed onto Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-CA) immigration legislation that would ban all border and immigration enforcement, leading to all border crossers and illegal aliens getting to freely enter the U.S. through the border and resettle across the country.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...lies-together/ ]]> Jean https://www.alipac.us/f18/cbs-yougov-poll-black-americans-vastly-prefer-deporting-illegal-alien-families-over-359918/ Majority of Americans: Threaten Mexico with NAFTA Until They Help Stop Illegal Immigr https://www.alipac.us/f18/majority-americans-threaten-mexico-nafta-until-they-help-stop-illegal-immigr-357440/ Thu, 05 Apr 2018 16:55:44 GMT *Majority of Americans: Threaten Mexico with NAFTA Until They Help Stop Illegal Immigration to U.S.* by JOHN BINDER 4 Apr 2018 Washington, D.C.... Majority of Americans: Threaten Mexico with NAFTA Until They Help Stop Illegal Immigration to U.S.

by JOHN BINDER
4 Apr 2018
Washington, D.C.
4,173 comments

The majority of Americans say they support President Trump threatening Mexico with tougher negotiations over the job-killing North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) trade deal until the country’s officials help the U.S. stop illegal immigration across the southern border.

In a new poll by Rasmussen Reports, about 51 percent of likely voters said the U.S. should take a tougher line in the current renegotiation of NAFTA to force Mexico to strengthen its efforts to stop illegal immigration and illegal drugs from entering this country.

Only 31 percent of likely voters said they opposed the effort.

Working-class Americans, earning between $30,000 and $50,000 a year, are the most supportive of Trump’s efforts to crack down on Mexico through NAFTA until it helps the U.S. at the southern border, with 60 percent supporting the negotiating tactic.

Wealthy Americans — the most supportive of multinational free trade deals and mass immigration — are the least supportive of threatening Mexico with NAFTA in order to get results at the southern border, with less than 45 percent supporting the plan.

Since NAFTA took effect in the 1990s, at least one million net U.S. jobs have been lost because of the free trade deal. Between 2000 and 2014, there have been about five million manufacturing jobs lost across the country as trade deficits continue soaring.

American likely voters are largely dissatisfied with Mexico when it comes to the illegal immigration crisis. For example, the poll reveals that 62 percent of likely voters say the Mexican government has not been aggressive enough in stopping the flow of illegal immigrants into the U.S.

As Breitbart News reported, waves of illegal immigration from Mexico has contributed to depleted and stagnant wages for American workers. In the California construction industry, after massive influxes of illegal immigration to the state, wages fell from $45 an hour in the 1980s to just $11 an hour today.

In a 2017 report by the Los Angeles Times, the left-leaning paper admitted that at the time illegal aliens began flooding the California construction industry, wages drastically dropped.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...cross-america/ ]]> Jean https://www.alipac.us/f18/majority-americans-threaten-mexico-nafta-until-they-help-stop-illegal-immigr-357440/ Poll: Congressional Democrats Lose Ground On Key Issues of Jobs, Economy, Immigration https://www.alipac.us/f18/poll-congressional-democrats-lose-ground-key-issues-jobs-economy-immigration-355495/ Thu, 08 Feb 2018 17:27:12 GMT by JOHN NOLTE 8 Feb 2018 A just-released Morning Consult poll shows that congressional Democrats have lost ground on key issues such as the... by JOHN NOLTE
8 Feb 2018

A just-released Morning Consult poll shows that congressional Democrats have lost ground on key issues such as the economy, jobs, national security, and even immigration.

It was only a month ago when Democrats and their national media allies were crowing over the coming Big Blue Wave of 2018, which is now starting to look an awful lot like the Big Blue Wall of 2016 that was supposed to ensure Hillary Clinton’s presidential victory. Just as President Trump proved that a Republican could climb over that wall to win Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania — the 2018 mid-term wave has receded more than just a little bit.

On the Real Clear Politics polls of polls, what was a double digit lead for Democrats on the generic ballot has dwindled to a mere 6 point lead, which will probably not be enough for Nancy Pelosi to become House Speaker.

Not only is the overall trend against the Big Blue Wave, so, too, are the internals of the latest poll from Morning Consult when compared to the same firm’s poll from June of 2016.

On the question of who voters trust more to handle key issues, voters have moved away from Democrats and towards Republicans…

Economy

June 2017: Democrats 40 / Republicans 42 — R+2

February 2018: Democrats 36 / Republicans 45 — R+9

Republican gain of +7

Job Creation

June 2017: D 40 / R 42 — R+2

February 2018: D 37 / R 43 — R+6

Republican gain of +4

National Security

June 2017: D 37 / R 43 — R+6

February 2018: D 33 / R 46 — R+13

Republican gain of +7

Immigration

June 2017: D 40 / R 43 — R+3

February 2018: D 37 / R 43 — R+6

Republican gain of +3

Energy

June 2017: D 44 / R 34 — D+10

February 2018: D40 / R 36 — D+4

Republican gain of +6

Generic Ballot

June 2017: D 43 / R 39 — D+4

February 2015: D 42 — R 38 — D+4

While Republicans are polling better on key issues that usually decide elections, this has not resulted in gaining any ground on this particular poll’s generic ballot.

On the issues where they always poll best — environment and education — back in June, Democrats enjoyed advantages of +20, and +11, respectively. Those numbers have not moved.

As of now, Democrats seem to want to make the 2018 mid-terms about immigration. On Wednesday, House Minority Leader Pelosi was hailed by the media for working an eight-hour day where she gave a speech about illegal immigrants, that many saw as racially condescending. Given the Democrats’ increasing disadvantage on this issue, it should be of no surprise that some Democrats found Pelosi’s “stunt” tone deaf.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...nd-key-issues/ ]]> Jean https://www.alipac.us/f18/poll-congressional-democrats-lose-ground-key-issues-jobs-economy-immigration-355495/ SHOCK POLL: DACA AMNESTY A DEAL KILLER FOR TRUMP BASE https://www.alipac.us/f18/shock-poll-daca-amnesty-deal-killer-trump-base-355207/ Tue, 30 Jan 2018 23:31:24 GMT January 30, 2018 by Jeremy Segal A new poll released Tuesday, shows a whopping 71% of President Trump’s strongest supporters staunchly oppose any... January 30, 2018
by Jeremy Segal

A new poll released Tuesday, shows a whopping 71% of President Trump’s strongest supporters staunchly oppose any border security deal that includes DACA amnesty, and could cost the president tremendous support from his base.

Ear to the Ground Listening Project, a collaboration of academics, market researchers and policy experts conducted the panel survey of 6,883 Trump supporters between January 12, 2018, and January 25, 2018. The survey reveals numerous insights about how President Trump’s strongest supporters feel right now.

The survey indicates President Trump has tremendous support and confidence from his base, but congressional Republicans are in the doghouse with a pathetic 16% approval from the president’s supporters.

Even more noteworthy, however, is President Trump may not be as bullet proof with his base as he believes. If he moves forward on an immigration deal that includes any form of amnesty it could cost him more than 48% of support from his base, according to the poll.

Key insights from the survey:

*Support for President Trump, on average, has gone UP since Election Night 2017 (from a weighted average of 3.98 on a 5-point scale to 4.06)
*84% said they are following immigration news “very closely”
*87% approve of President Trump’s handling of immigration reform
*16% of current President Trump supporters approve of the way Republicans in Congress are handling immigration (and 49% disapprove)
*34% of the panel respondents claim to be independent or not Republican

Immigration Reform Specifics:

*71% said it was “extremely” or “very important” to eliminate DACA as part of immigration reform efforts
*If Congress passed immigration reform that removed DACA but incorporated a form of Amnesty, 62% would not support it, 7% would, and 32% are unsure if they would or would not
*When asked if they would support President Trump if he signs an immigration reform bill that includes a form of amnesty, only 3% said “definitely yes,” 13% said “probably yes,” 36% said “might or might not, 26% said “probably not,” and 22% said “definitely not.”
*Top 3 Immigration Topics, in order of preference, are: Border Wall (1), Chain Migration (2), E-Verify / Employment Verification (3), DACA (4), and Amnesty (5)
*Given a choice of 5 immigration-reform philosophies, the most popular was to “keep out people likely to present a danger to American citizens” (41%), then “admit people only who are compatible with our culture and way of life” (28%), and “protect Americans’ jobs” (17%)

“Trump supporters have not waned in their confidence that the President will follow-through on his campaign promises, and now we have insight into why they feel immigration is so important. A great part of their motivation is shown to be a concern over security of our nation and fitting in with the American culture, not solely self-sufficiency,” said research director Anne Sorock.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018...er-trump-base/ ]]> Jean https://www.alipac.us/f18/shock-poll-daca-amnesty-deal-killer-trump-base-355207/ CNN poll: DACA not worth a shutdown, except to Democrats https://www.alipac.us/f18/cnn-poll-daca-not-worth-shutdown-except-democrats-354744/ Sat, 20 Jan 2018 04:52:44 GMT *CNN poll: DACA not worth a shutdown, except to Democrats* By Jennifer Agiesta. CNN Polling Director CNN poll: DACA not worth a shutdown, except to Democrats

By Jennifer Agiesta. CNN Polling Director

Washington (CNN)With hours to go before a midnight deadline for Congress to fund the government or shut it down, most Americans say avoiding a shutdown is more important than passing a bill to maintain the program allowing people brought to the US illegally as children to stay, according to a new CNN pollconducted by SSRS.

But Democrats taking a hard line on legislation connecting government funding to the popular program known as DACA appear to have the backing of their constituents, and more overall say President Donald Trump or the Republicans in Congress would be responsible for a shutdown if one happens.

Which is more important...
avoiding a shutdown or
continuing DACA?

A majority of Americans says it supports
keeping the government open over finding
a solution for the DACA program.

Avoiding a
shutdown

Continuing
DACA

Source: CNN poll conducted by SSRS, Jan. 14-18, 2018.
1,005 adults, ±3.7% pts.

Related: Full Poll Results
Overall, about half of Americans say they would blame either Trump (21%) or his Republican counterparts in Congress (26%) should Congress fail to fund the government by the midnight Friday deadline. About a third, 31%, say they would hold the Democrats in Congress responsible, and another 10% say they'd blame all three groups. Among Republicans, 62% would blame the Democrats in Congress, while 43% of Democrats would blame Republicans on Capitol Hill and 29% would blame Trump.
Still, 56% overall say approving a budget agreement to avoid a shutdown is more important than continuing the DACA program, while just 34% choose DACA over a shutdown. Democrats break narrowly in favor of DACA -- 49% say it's more important vs. 42% who say avoiding a shutdown is the priority -- while majorities of both Republicans (75%) and independents (57%) say avoiding a shutdown is more important.

Who holds responsibility
for a government shutdown?

Democrats
in Congress

GOP in
Congress

President
Trump

Source: CNN poll conducted by SSRS, Jan. 14-18, 2018.
1,005 adults, ±3.7% pts.

Republicans in Congress have argued that Democrats in the Senate are holding up the process by insisting on tying an extension of the DACA program to the legislation needed to fund the government's operations. Republicans in the House have already passed a bill to fund the government, which includes funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program -- another popular program whose future is in doubt -- but not an extension of DACA. Republicans hold 51 seats in the Senate, however, fewer than the 60 required for the procedural vote needed to bring that funding bill up for passage.

A competing bipartisan bill offered by Democratic and Republican Senators that does include an extension of DACA also currently falls short of the 60 votes needed for cloture, and has been rejected by the President.

On its own, the DACA program remains broadly popular, with 84% saying they would like to see it continue, including 72% of Republicans, 82% of independents and a near-unanimous 96% of Democrats. Almost two-thirds (63%) say dealing with the program should be an extremely or very high priority for Congress, narrowly ahead of the 61% who say the same about passing a long-term funding bill to avoid future shutdowns.
Both DACA and funding the government, however, fall well below CHIP on the priority scale. Eighty percent overall call the Children's Health Insurance Program an extremely or very important priority for Congress, including 91% of Democrats and 70% of Republicans.

Neither the President nor Congress are particularly popular, according to the poll, with Trump's approval rating at a net-negative 40% approve to 55% disapprove, and Congress meriting just 18% approval, with 76% disapproving. That's the worst rating in CNN polling on the legislative branch since before the start of this Congress last January.

Trump's numbers have improved in the last month, however, with approval rising 5 points largely on the strength of improved ratings among independents and conservatives. He's improved 7 points among independents, with much of that shift coming among those who lean Republican, and gained 10 points among ideological conservatives.

But Trump's overall approval rating of 40% is the worst for any elected president in the modern era of polling at the one-year mark of their time in office. Ronald Reagan's 47% approval rating in January of 1982 is the closest, with the nine presidents for whom data are available averaging a 64% approval rating at this point in their time in office.

Trump's favored policies on immigration do not fare well in the poll. Six in 10 lack confidence that the President and Congress will be able to improve immigration laws generally, 62% say they oppose his plan to build a wall along the entire border with Mexico, and just 36% agree with the White House's contention that reducing legal immigration from troubled countries makes the United States safer.

On the whole, just 38% approve of the way Trump is handling immigration while 57% disapprove, a figure that's largely unchanged compared with our last read on the topic in November.

The CNN Poll was conducted by SSRS January 14-18 among a random national sample of 1,005 adults reached on landlines or cellphones by a live interviewer. No interviewing was completed on January 16 due to weather conditions at call center locations. Results for the full sample have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.7 percentage points, it is larger for subgroups.

http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/19/politi...aca/index.html

]]> GeorgiaPeach https://www.alipac.us/f18/cnn-poll-daca-not-worth-shutdown-except-democrats-354744/ Poll: Voters oppose bill combining DACA protections with border wall https://www.alipac.us/f18/poll-voters-oppose-bill-combining-daca-protections-border-wall-354676/ Thu, 18 Jan 2018 22:10:34 GMT Poll: Voters oppose bill combining DACA protections with border wallRoughly half of polled voters oppose Congress passing a bill that combines... Poll: Voters oppose bill combining DACA protections with border wall

Roughly half of polled voters oppose Congress passing a bill that combines protections for immigrants brought to the U.S. as children, known as "Dreamers," with funding for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, a poll released Thursday found.

A Quinnipiac University poll shows 49 percent of respondents oppose tying funding for President Trump’s border wall to addressing the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, compared to 39 percent who support such a measure.

Hispanic voters are split evenly on the issue, with 42 percent opposing it and 42 percent supporting it, according to the poll.

In total, 73 percent of voters support allowing Dreamers to remain in the U.S. legally, according to the poll.
The Trump administration announced last year it would rescind DACA, which allows certain immigrants brought to the U.S. as children to remain here and work without fear of deportation.

As lawmakers work to agree on an immigration bill, Trump has indicated any measure that addresses DACA must also adequately fund his border wall.

White House chief of staff John Kelly said Wednesday the wall won't stretch across the entire border, and indicated the Mexican government won't pay for it, as Trump has previously claimed. Kelly also told lawmakers Trump's initial views on immigration were "uninformed."
Kelly's comments reportedly irked the president, who on Thursday morning reiterated that his concept for the wall "has never changed or evolved from the first day I conceived of it."

The poll surveyed 1,212 American voters between Jan. 12-16 and has a margin of error of 3.4 percentage points. ]]> GeorgiaPeach https://www.alipac.us/f18/poll-voters-oppose-bill-combining-daca-protections-border-wall-354676/ Vote in This Poll DML https://www.alipac.us/f18/vote-poll-dml-354324/ Fri, 12 Jan 2018 04:47:11 GMT Poll at this Link

If given amnesty, will most 'Dreamers' vote Democrat?

Yes, this will eventually add a flood of new voters for the Democrat Party. 85.95%

I'm undecided. 6.55%

No, they will be like the general population - about half Dems and half Republicans. 6.03%

No, most will vote Republican if Trump gives them amnesty. 1.47%

https://dmlnews.com/poll-dreamers-gi...vote-democrat/ ]]> GeorgiaPeach https://www.alipac.us/f18/vote-poll-dml-354324/ Responsible Immigration Survey https://www.alipac.us/f18/responsible-immigration-survey-354092/ Sun, 07 Jan 2018 04:45:44 GMT XXXXX,, For years, politicians have talked about “compassionate” immigration reform, but every one of their proposals showed ZERO compassion for... XXXXX,,

For years, politicians have talked about “compassionate” immigration reform, but every one of their proposals showed ZERO compassion for American workers, the victims of illegal immigration crime, and for the safety and security of our nation.

It’s time for RESPONSIBLE immigration reform that actually puts the interests of American citizensfirst.

Before I bring a proposal to the table, I want to have the full force of the American people united behind a plan that we want. I want to hear your immigration demands,
Karen.

Please take my Responsible Immigration Survey by MIDNIGHT TONIGHT.

Chuck and Nancy -- and EVERY liberal obstructionist -- need to understand that it’s not just me that wants these critical proposals turned into law…

…These are the demands of the American PEOPLE. Your elected officials need to know just how many voters will be furious if our demands are not met.

And I want to be able to give an exact number of how many people back each proposal. This is the Art of the Deal!

So please, take my Responsible Immigration Survey by MIDNIGHT TONIGHT.

Thank you,

Donald J. Trump
President of the United States ]]> Newmexican https://www.alipac.us/f18/responsible-immigration-survey-354092/ Poll: Fewer Than 30 Percent of Americans Want Amnesty for DACA Illegals https://www.alipac.us/f18/poll-fewer-than-30-percent-americans-want-amnesty-daca-illegals-352722/ Sat, 18 Nov 2017 23:09:53 GMT Poll: Fewer Than 30 Percent of Americans Want Amnesty for DACA IllegalsImage:... Poll: Fewer Than 30 Percent of Americans Want Amnesty for DACA Illegals

November 9, 2017

NEW YORK CITY, New York — Fewer than 30 percent of Americans prioritize the award of permanent amnesty to nearly 800,000 illegal aliens shielded from deportation by President Barack Obama’s DACA amnesty.

In a new poll by Morning Consult and Politico, just 29 percent of Americans said allowing illegal aliens on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program to permanently remain in the United States and receive a pathway to citizenship was a priority.

https://politiciandirect.com/politic...-daca-illegals ]]> lorrie https://www.alipac.us/f18/poll-fewer-than-30-percent-americans-want-amnesty-daca-illegals-352722/ <![CDATA[Poll: DACA Amnesty a 'Top Priority' for Only 23 Percent of Swing-Voters]]> https://www.alipac.us/f18/poll-daca-amnesty-top-priority-only-23-percent-swing-voters-352474/ Sat, 11 Nov 2017 01:11:34 GMT Poll: DACA Amnesty a ‘Top Priority’ for Only 23 Percent of Swing-Voters

FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images

by JOHN BINDER10 Nov 2017New York City, NY

NEW YORK CITY, New York — An amnesty for young illegals is a “top priority” for only 23 percent of American voters who identify as Independents, says a new Morning Consult-POLITICO poll.

The no-strings amnesty is also strongly opposed by 16 percent of 652 independents in the November survey, and likely by many of the 23 percent of people who say they have no comment or don’t know.

The poll question nudged people to accept the amnesty, but it did not also ask people for a response to the scale and cost of the amnesty, which would cover 3 million people and would allow them to bring in several million relatives from their home countries. The question asked:

How important of a priority should each of the following be for Congress? Passing a bill that grants young people who were brought to the United States illegally when they were children, often with their parents, protection from deportation

In contrast, support for an amnesty drops sharply in polls which ask voters to balance their pro-immigration attitudes with concerns about fairness to fellow Americans.

In another question, only 11 percent of the independents said the DACA amnesty should be “the top priority” for Congress, far below the 24 percent urging health care reform, 16 percent for investigations into Russia’s role in the 2016 elections and 14 percent for a tax reform. Entitlement reform and infrastructure spending were the highest priorities for 10 percent and 8 percent of the independent voters in the survey. Only 12 percent of Democratic voters said a DACA amnesty should be the top priority.

The new poll also shows a steady decline in support for amnesty since Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced in September that President Trump would ultimately end DACA by March 2018.

In September, roughly 35 percent of Independents said an amnesty for DACA illegal aliens should be prioritized.

Flash-forward to today and only 23 percent of Independents say an amnesty for DACA illegal aliens should get congressional priority, a 12-point drop in support just in a couple months.

Overall, American voters are increasingly opposed to a prioritized amnesty for DACA recipients, as Breitbart News reported, with fewer than 30 percent of Americans saying they support a quick amnesty deal. Even among Democrat voters, amnesty is becoming more and more unpopular, with fewer than 45 percent Democrats wanting Congress to push through an amnesty deal.

Despite little support for amnesty for illegal aliens, Democrats, the Republican establishment, the cheap labor industry, big business and the open borders lobby have teamed up to relentlessly push for legalizing up to 3.3 million illegal aliens who are on the DACA rolls or eligible for DACA.

While pushing multiple amnesty plans in the House and Senate, lawmakers — especially those in the GOP — have ignored Trump’s popular immigration principles, which include:

Construction of a border wall
Deporting unaccompanied alien children who are not at-risk in their native country
Preventing criminal illegal aliens and gang members from receiving immigration benefits
Mandating E-Verify, which weeds out illegal aliens from taking U.S. jobs
Eliminating the diversity visa lottery
Classifying overstaying a visa as a “misdemeanor”
Restricting certain federal grants to sanctuary cities that refuse to detain criminal illegal aliens
Ending family-based chain migration
Enacting a merit-based legal immigration where only qualified immigrants can enter the U.S.

Unlike an amnesty for illegal aliens, many of Trump’s pro-American reforms are actually popular with the American people.

A Pulse Opinion Research poll in August, though, showed that Americans believe the second-most important aspect to stemming the flow of illegal immigration was constructing a border wall on the southern border.
That same poll found that 68 percent of Americans support mandatory E-Verify, 53 percent say stopping employers from hiring illegal aliens was the most important component to ending illegal immigration, and 54 percent said they wanted to see overall legal immigration levels reduced.

Since DACA’s inception, more than 2,100 DACA recipients saw their protected status revoked for being involved in gang activity or suspected/convicted of a felony. Due to a loophole in the DACA program, more than 39,000 illegal aliens have been able to obtain Green Cards and more than 1,000 naturalized.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...-swing-voters/ ]]> GeorgiaPeach https://www.alipac.us/f18/poll-daca-amnesty-top-priority-only-23-percent-swing-voters-352474/ Poll: Fewer Than 30 Percent of Americans Want Amnesty for DACA Illegals https://www.alipac.us/f18/poll-fewer-than-30-percent-americans-want-amnesty-daca-illegals-352446/ Fri, 10 Nov 2017 00:14:35 GMT *Poll: Fewer Than 30 Percent of Americans Want Amnesty for DACA Illegals* 2821 ... Poll: Fewer Than 30 Percent of Americans Want Amnesty for DACA Illegals

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by JOHN BINDER9 Nov 2017New York City, NY

NEW YORK CITY, New York — Fewer than 30 percent of Americans prioritize the award of permanent amnesty to nearly 800,000 illegal aliens shielded from deportation by President Barack Obama’s DACA amnesty.

In a new poll by Morning Consult and Politico, just 29 percent of Americans said allowing illegal aliens on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program to permanently remain in the United States and receive a pathway to citizenship was a priority.

Support for amnesty for DACA illegal aliens has dropped 10 points among Americans since Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced in September on behalf of President Trump’s administration that the Obama-era program would ultimately be ended in March 2018.

Even among Americans who are Democrats, support for an amnesty for DACA illegal aliens has fallen to less than 50 percent. Only 44 percent of Democratic voters said giving amnesty to DACAs needed to be a priority for Congress.

Months ago, though, 53 percent of Democrats said DACA amnesty was a priority.

Among Republican voters, a DACA amnesty has dropped 28 percent in September to a mere 19 percent today. With Independents, the support for prioritizing DACA amnesty for illegal aliens dropped the largest. In September, 35 percent of Independent voters said DACA amnesty should be a priority. Today, only 23 percent of Independents want a prioritized amnesty.

Meanwhile, Americans who openly oppose an amnesty for DACA illegal aliens is at 15 percent.

Despite little support for amnesty for illegal aliens, Democrats, the Republican establishment, the cheap labor industry, big business and the open borders lobby have teamed up to relentlessly push for legalizing up to 3.3 million illegal aliens who are on the DACA rolls or eligible for DACA.

While pushing multiple amnesty plans in the House and Senate, lawmakers — especially those in the GOP — have ignored Trump’s popular immigration principles, which include:

Construction of a border wall
Deporting unaccompanied alien children who are not at-risk in their native country
Preventing criminal illegal aliens and gang members from receiving immigration benefits
Mandating E-Verify, which weeds out illegal aliens from taking U.S. jobs
Eliminating the diversity visa lottery
Classifying overstaying a visa as a “misdemeanor”
Restricting certain federal grants to sanctuary cities that refuse to detain criminal illegal aliens
Ending family-based chain migration
Enacting a merit-based legal immigration where only qualified immigrants can enter the U.S.

That same poll found that 68 percent of Americans support mandatory E-Verify, 53 percent say stopping employers from hiring illegal aliens was the most important component to ending illegal immigration, and 54 percent said they wanted to see overall legal immigration levels reduced.

Since DACA’s inception, more than 2,100 DACA recipients saw their protected status revoked for being involved in gang activity or suspected/convicted of a felony. Due to a loophole in the DACA program, more than 39,000 illegal aliens have been able to obtain Green Cards and more than 1,000 naturalized.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...llegal-aliens/ ]]> GeorgiaPeach https://www.alipac.us/f18/poll-fewer-than-30-percent-americans-want-amnesty-daca-illegals-352446/ August 2017 National Poll https://www.alipac.us/f18/august-2017-national-poll-351657/ Tue, 10 Oct 2017 02:26:42 GMT *August 2017 National Poll* * National Survey of 1000 Likely Midterm Voters **Conducted August 24-25, 2017 By Pulse Opinion Research August 2017 National Poll

National Survey of 1000 Likely Midterm Voters

Conducted August 24-25, 2017

By Pulse Opinion Research

Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence

Download the poll results

1.* When businesses say they are having trouble finding Americans to take jobs in construction, manufacturing, hospitality and other service work, what is generally best for the country? Is it better to raise the pay until they can attract Americans without jobs even if it causes prices to rise, or is it better for the government to continue to automatically bring in new immigrants each year to keep costs down?

59% Better to raise the pay to attract Americans without jobs even if prices rise
19% Better for the government to automatically bring in new immigrants to keep the costs down
22% Not sure

2* Some businesses say it is especially difficult to hire workers from among groups with the highest unemployment and poverty rates, which includes Black and Hispanic Americans and younger Americans of all ethnic groups without a college degree. Should businesses be required to try harder to recruit and train people from those groups with the highest unemployment or should the government continue to bring in new immigrants to compete for the jobs?

71% Business should be required to try harder to recruit and train from groups with the highest unemployment
11% Government should continue to bring in new immigrants to compete for the jobs
18% Not sure

3* Current federal policy automatically adds about one million new legal immigrants each year giving all of them lifetime work visas. Which is closest to the number of immigrants with lifetime work visas the government should be adding each year -- none, 250,000, half a million, one million, one and a half million, two million, or more than two million?

61% want half-million or LESS
26% want one million or MORE
20% None
26% 250,000
15% Half a million
13% One million
5% One and a half million
3% Two million
5% More than two million
14% Not sure

4* When businesses are allowed to bring in immigrant workers on lifetime work permits, who should those immigrants be allowed to eventually petition to also get lifetime work permits….their spouse and minor children only, their extended family in addition to their spouse and minor children or no family members at all?

51% Spouse and minor children only
26% Extended family in addition to spouse and minor children
17% No family member at all
6% Not sure

5* A bill in the U.S. Senate would allow immigrants to bring in their spouse and minor children but would end migration of extended family. Do you favor or oppose allowing immigrants to bring in only their spouse and minor children and NOT their extended family?

55% Favor
32% Oppose
14% Not sure

6* A bill in Congress would eliminate a government run visa lottery that each year randomly selects approximately 50,000 new immigrants around the world to move to the United States with lifetime work permits. Opponents of the visa lottery criticize it for bringing in people without any regard for their skills or how they affect American workers who have to compete with them for jobs. Supporters of the visa lottery say it is needed to add diversity to the United States. Should the United States eliminate the visa lottery or continue the visa lottery?

56% Eliminate the visa lottery
33% Continue the visa lottery
11% Not sure

7* On the issue of helping refugees, the U.S. government has settled an average of 63,000 refugees in local U.S. communities every year for the last decade. Next year how many refugees should the United States admit – more than 100,000, 75000, 50000, 25000, fewer than 25000, or none and instead assist refugees in safe zones close to their home countries?

27% Admit 75,000 or MORE
63% Admit 50,000 or LESS
18% Admit more than 100,000
9% Admit 75,000
11% Admit 50,000
5% Admit 25,000
8% Admit fewer than 25,000
39% Admit none and instead assist refugees in safe zones close to their home countries
10% Not sure

8* The Pew Research Center projects that immigration policies are on course to add at least 100 million people to the United States over the next 50 years. Which action of the government is more likely to be better for environmental quality and the quality of life for future Americans -- reduce immigration and slow down population growth, keep immigration the same and add the 100 million people, or increase immigration to add more than 100 million people over the next 50 years?

54% Reduce immigration and slow down population growth
26% Keep immigration the same and add 100 million people
7% Increase immigration to add more than 100 million people
13% Not sure

9* I'm now going to ask you a few more questions about how businesses should bring in immigrant workers. First, how should job-based and other non-family immigrant green cards be given out each year -- by the order that applications are submitted, by lottery, or to those applicants with the most points in a merit system based on criteria like education, English-language ability and sought-after skills?

28% By the order that applications are submitted
8% By lottery
53% By a merit-based points system
12% Not sure

10* In an immigration merit-based points system, how important should it be that a potential immigrant has an advanced college degree -- very important, somewhat important, not very important, or not important at all?

55% Important
42% Not very or at all
20% Very important
35% Somewhat important
28% Not very important
14% Not at all important
4% Not sure

11* In an immigration merit-based points system, how important should it be that a potential immigrant be at least moderately fluent in English -- very important, somewhat important, not very important, or not important at all?

75% Important
23% Not very or at all
49% Very important
26% Somewhat important
16% Not very important
7% Not at all important
2% Not sure

12* If an immigrant comes to the United States on a merit-based visa, how important is it that they and their families not be eligible to receive welfare benefits -- very important, somewhat important, not very important, or not important at all?

66% Important
28% Not very or at all
43% Very important
23% Somewhat important
14% Not very important
14% Not at all important
6% Not sure

13* Do you find most immigrants you have met personally to be hard-working people who would make good neighbors?

66% Yes
13% No
21% Not sure

14* On the question of ILLEGAL immigration, do you favor or oppose requiring every business to use the government’s online E-Verify system to make sure every job goes to an American or other authorized worker instead of to an illegal worker?

68% Favor requiring E-Verify
17% Oppose requiring E-Verify
15% Not sure

15* Which is the most important government action for stopping illegal immigration both at the borders and from visa overstays – a wall on the Mexican border, increased deportations, or stopping employers from hiring illegal workers?

19% A wall on the Mexican border
13% Increased deportations
53% Stopping employers from hiring illegal workers
15% Not sure

Methodology: The NATIONAL survey of 1,000 likely midterm voters was conducted by Pulse Opinion Research on August 24-25, 2017. Pulse Opinion Research, LLC is an independent public opinion research firm using automated polling methodology and procedures licensed from Rasmussen Reports, LLC.
“Likely Midterm Voters” are those who answered “always” or “usually” to the question: “How often do you vote in congressional elections when there isn’t a presidential contest?” The margin of sampling error for the full sample is +/- 3.0% percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. This means that an identical survey conducted under the same circumstances would generate a result within the margin of sampling error 19 times out of 20.

The survey was conducted using an established automated polling methodology. For 75%, sample calls were placed to randomly-selected phone numbers through a process that insures appropriate geographical representation. Twenty five percent (25%) of the sample was conducted via online surveys of those individuals who use a cell-phone as their primary telephone. After the calls and on-line surveys were completed, the raw data is processed through a weighting program to insure that the sample reflects the overall population in terms of age, race, gender, political party, and other factors. The processing step is required because different segments of the population answer the phone in different ways. The population targets were based upon census bureau data, a series of screening questions to determine likely voters, and other factors. Pulse Opinion Research determines its partisan weighting targets through a dynamic weighting system that takes into account voting history, national trends, and recent polling.

https://www.numbersusa.com/pages/august-2017-national-poll

]]> GeorgiaPeach https://www.alipac.us/f18/august-2017-national-poll-351657/ Poll: Huge Support for DREAM Act-Border Security Compromise, 80 Percent Favor More https://www.alipac.us/f18/poll-huge-support-dream-act-border-security-compromise-80-percent-favor-more-351495/ Wed, 04 Oct 2017 02:37:10 GMT OCTOBER 3, 2017 *Poll: Huge Support for DREAM Act-Border Security Compromise, 80 Percent Favor More Enforcement* *Guy Benson* *9/27/2017...

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Poll: Huge Support for DREAM Act-Border Security Compromise, 80 Percent Favor More Enforcement

Guy Benson

9/27/2017 10:25:00 AM

When President Trump canceled his predecessor's legally-dubious 'DACA' amnesty-by-fiat, he charged Congress with the task of resolving the issue within six months. We know that Democrats, and some hardcore activists, would prefer a "clean" bill that granted permanent deportation relief to eligible DREAMers -- with no immigration enforcement provisions attached. But Republican leaders have made clear that any DREAM Act-style legislation must entail upgraded security elements, with some key Democrats signaling that they might be open to a compromise. Democrats' line in the sand is funding for "the wall," and the White House appears prepared to accommodate that demand. In light of those facts, the proposal I've floated involves drawing from the failed, Democrat-led 2013 'Gang of Eight' bill to identify immigration enforcement proposals that have already gotten unanimous stamps of approval from Senate Democrats. Among them are the hiring of thousands of new border agents, the construction of 700 miles of new fencing, and upgrading the e-verify system for hiring new employees.

The idea, therefore, would be pretty straightforward: Law-abiding DREAMers' non-deportable status would be formalized and stabilized, while Americans concerned about border and internal immigration enforcement would see tangible progress on the security front. I argued that would be a fair deal, and would be broadly popular. A new Washington Post/ABC News poll confirms the latter piece of my analysis:

Americans overwhelmingly support an equitable resolution for DREAMers, and by nearly a 40-point margin, they're willing to couple that legislative goal with "more border security." Stepping up efforts to require employers to verify a potential hire's immigration status is roughly an 80/20 issue. As you can see, Trump's proposals to "build the wall" and to slash legal immigration in half (easily the least popular component of the RAISE Act, other parts of which enjoy wide support) are underwater.

Trump's smartest play would be to pick the most popular bits of the 'Gang of Eight's' enforcement provisions and make those his demands. If he gets a combination of increased border surveillance, new agents, hundreds of miles of fencing, and plus enhanced e-verify "in exchange for" treating the DREAMers "with heart," he could easily claim victory all around. He'd notch wins on improved security, and on building a border barrier (he could even call it "the wall") -- plus, he could frame any upgrades to the uber-popular e-verify system as protecting American workers. Those changes would reflect multiple commitments he repeatedly made on the campaign trail. Meanwhile, two Senate conservatives have introduced their version of the DREAM Act, which would offer an extended path to citizenship for up to 2.5 million potential DACA recipients:

[U]nlike other merit-based immigration proposals that limit new immigrants from entering the country based on their job skills, this proposal would limit who can remain in the country based on their years of American education, work experience or military service…All applicants will have to pass a medical examination and be “extreme vetted.” The vetting will include three separate rounds of security and background checks to ensure they have no criminal history and pose no national security threat. The first check would happen when the immigrant enters the program followed by a second check after five years. The third check comes after 15 years, if and when the immigrant applies to become a citizen…The proposal would grant high school graduates without a serious criminal record conditional immigration status for a five-year period. During that time, if they earn a higher-education degree, serve in the military or stay employed, they could apply for permanent residency and, eventually, citizenship.

Allahpundit summarizes the proposed vetting process: "You get five years of legal status to prove that you can hold down a job, get your college degree, or enlist. Do one of the three and you’re eligible for permanent residency. Keep your nose clean and, 10 years after that, you can become a citizen. That’s the Tillis/Lankford timeframe, anyway; Democrats will insist on something more accelerated. I assume we’ll end up with an eight- to 10-year citizenship path if this were to become law," he writes. One thing that's nowhere to be found in the Tillis/Lankford plan? New border security measures, though its co-sponsors say those are essential:

Tillis said it was clear that the Dream Act did not have enough support to pass the Senate and the House. Lankford said the Succeed Act is not a standalone bill and would require companion legislation, particularly around border security. Lankford said Trump “was very supportive of the concept” of the legislation. That’s a non-starter for some immigration activists. “We demand that Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell immediately allow for a vote on a clean Dream Act, without trying to use us as bargaining chips for more money for out-of-control border control and immigration enforcement,” said Make the Road New York.

Well, "immigration activists" don't control the US Congress, do they? Their so-called 'demands' should be ignored. For conservatives to even consider a plan like the one put forth by Tillis and Lankford, simultaneous enforcement is a pre-requisite. A failure to address and mitigate the problem of illegal immigration would and should be the true "non-starter" in this negotiation.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guyben...ement-n2386297 ]]> GeorgiaPeach https://www.alipac.us/f18/poll-huge-support-dream-act-border-security-compromise-80-percent-favor-more-351495/ Should DACA be Continued By Congress or Ended https://www.alipac.us/f18/should-daca-continued-congress-ended-351155/ Fri, 22 Sep 2017 02:36:43 GMT WASHINGTON — A majority of Americans support congressional action to continue the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, but Republicans — and particularly President Donald Trump’s most loyal supporters — want to end it, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.

The survey, which was conducted after Trump announced a phasing out of the program unless Congress acts in six months, shows that 53 percent of all Americans want lawmakers to codify DACA, which allows many young people who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children to stay in the country.

By contrast, about a quarter — 23 percent — say Congress should take no action so that the program ends.

Among Republicans, however, a larger share want to see DACA nixed. Thirty-nine percent of Republicans say the program should be ditched, while 29 percent believe it should continue through congressional action.

The difference is even starker when Republicans are sorted by their allegiance to the president and their party.

Among Republicans who say that they consider themselves primarily supporters of the GOP rather than Trump, 32 percent want Congress to act on DACA, while 26 percent believe the program should end.

But among those who say their primary allegiance is to Trump rather than the GOP, nearly half — 49 percent — say DACA should end.

Half of independents (51 percent) and three-quarters of Democrats (76 percent) say Congress should vote to continue DACA.

Trump himself has expressed sympathy for individuals enrolled in the program and urged Congress to "pass DACA." Last week, he tweeted: "Does anybody really want to throw out good, educated and accomplished young people who have jobs, some serving in the military? Really! … They have been in our country for many years through no fault of their own — brought in by parents at young age."

About half of the poll’s respondents appear to share Trump’s positive opinion of the beneficiaries of DACA — known as Dreamers. Asked about their views of Dreamers, 51 percent of all Americans offered either a very positive (31 percent) or somewhat positive (20 percent) assessment, while just a combined 19 percent had either a somewhat negative (9 percent) or a very negative (10 percent) opinion of them.

The poll also showed increasing support for the granting of automatic citizenship to all children born on U.S. soil — commonly referred to as "birthright citizenship."

Overall, 65 percent of Americans say the U.S. should continue to grant automatic citizenship, while 30 percent disagree.

In September 2015, only a slim majority — 53 percent — supported the continuation of birthright citizenship, while 42 percent supported a change to the policy.

And in 2010, the public was equally divided, with 49 percent supporting the continuation of automatic citizenship and 46 percent opposing it.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/fir...ose-it-n803371 ]]> GeorgiaPeach https://www.alipac.us/f18/should-daca-continued-congress-ended-351155/ <![CDATA[President Donald Trump's Half True claim that support for DACA is as high as '92 perc]]> https://www.alipac.us/f18/president-donald-trumps-half-true-claim-support-daca-high-92-perc-351046/ Tue, 19 Sep 2017 18:47:08 GMT President Donald Trump has questioned why undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children should be deported, a sharp departure... President Donald Trump has questioned why undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children should be deported, a sharp departure from the campaign when he advocated for the removal of all who were violating immigration laws.

Trump’s administration is phasing out Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), an Obama-era program that shields young undocumented immigrants from deportation.

At the same time, Trump wants Congress to pass a permanent solution for the so-called "Dreamers," saying the idea has very high support among Americans. (DACA recipients are commonly called "Dreamers.")

"Look, 92 percent of the people agree on DACA, but what we want is we want very, very powerful border security," Trump said Sept. 14 before traveling from Washington to meet with Floridians affected by Hurricane Irma. He said Republican congressional leaders were also on board.

Later in Florida, he said they were not looking at amnesty or citizenship, but "looking at allowing people to stay here."

If and when funding for Trump’s border wall will come or what will be part of a DACA deal is still unclear.

For now, we were curious about Trump’s claim that 92 percent of people agree on a solution for DACA recipients. We did not find a poll showing support that high, but several polls do show that the majority of Americans want a favorable outcome for Dreamers.

The White House declined to comment for this fact-check.

Public opinion on DACA
We found several polls that asked about DACA and showed majority support for not deporting Dreamers. But we did not find nearly universal support that Trump described.

• A Morning Consult and Politico poll conducted between Sept. 7-11, after the Trump administration announced it was eliminating DACA, found that of 1,976 registered voters polled, 45 percent said it was the wrong thing to do; 35 percent said it was the right thing to do; 20 percent did not know or had no opinion.

Asked about the issue in a different way — "When it comes to legislation regarding Dreamers, which of the following would you most like Congress to pass?" — 54 percent of respondents said they would want legislation that allowed Dreamers to stay and become citizens if they met certain requirements; 19 percent favored legislation that would allow them to stay legally but not become citizens, if they met certain requirements; 12 percent wanted legislation that removes or deports them; and 15 percent did not know or had no opinion.

So, for this second question, 73 percent favored legislation that would protect Dreamers from deportation.

A previous Morning Consult and Politico poll, conducted from April 20-24 asked about 2,000 registered voters what they thought was the best way to handle Dreamers. Fifty-six percent said they should be allowed to stay and become citizens if they met certain requirements, and 22 percent favored allowing them to stay and become legal residents, but not citizens, if they met certain requirements. Overall, 78 percent definitely did not want Dreamers to be deported.

• An NBC News and SurveyMonkey poll, conducted online from August 24-29 among a national sample of 10,129 adults, found 64 percent support for DACA.

• A Sept. 3-5 poll from The Economist and YouGov of 1,500 U.S. adults also found that 55 percent of responders somewhat or strongly supported DACA, though support for the program was lower among Trump voters and Republicans.

Several polling and public opinion experts we reached out to say they were not aware of any recent poll showing a 92 percent support for DACA, but that a solid majority does seem to favor the program.

Our ruling
Trump said "92 percent of the people agree on DACA."

We found several polls in which a majority of people said they supported DACA or favored legislation that would allow Dreamers to stay in the United States. But the level of support was not as high as 92 percent.

Overall, we rate Trump’s statement Half True.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-me...im-support-da/ ]]> GeorgiaPeach https://www.alipac.us/f18/president-donald-trumps-half-true-claim-support-daca-high-92-perc-351046/ Americans Doubt Border Security Would Follow DACA Deal, Poll Finds https://www.alipac.us/f18/americans-doubt-border-security-would-follow-daca-deal-poll-finds-351040/ Tue, 19 Sep 2017 18:05:41 GMT by JOHN BINDER 19 Sep 2017 Washington, D.C. Most Americans say the U.S.-Mexico Border will continued to be unsecured if Congress passes an... by JOHN BINDER
19 Sep 2017
Washington, D.C.

Most Americans say the U.S.-Mexico Border will continued to be unsecured if Congress passes an amnesty policy for illegal aliens.

In a Rasmussen Reports survey, 45 percent of Americans said it was not “likely” that even if Congress were to pass an amnesty package for illegal aliens, allowing the estimated 12 to 30 million individuals to remain in the United States, coupled with a security measure, the southern border would still not be secured. A smaller 41 percent disagreed.

The poll also asked Americans which agency should be the authority on making sure the U.S.-Mexico Border is secure. A surveyed 51 percent said the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) should be tasked, as it currently is, with border enforcement duties.

Discussion of amnesty for illegal aliens has most recently come to forefront as President Trump may break with campaign promises to curb illegal immigration and make a deal to give 800,000 illegal aliens – protected by an Obama-created program known as DACA – lasting legal status.

As Breitbart News reported, the legalization could potentially trigger more arrivals at the U.S.-Mexico Border and surge chain migration to the U.S. that would be upwards of at least 4 to 6 million foreign nationals.

http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2017/...al-poll-finds/ ]]> Jean https://www.alipac.us/f18/americans-doubt-border-security-would-follow-daca-deal-poll-finds-351040/ POLL: African-Americans, Populist Conservatives Most Likely to Oppose DACA https://www.alipac.us/f18/poll-african-americans-populist-conservatives-most-likely-oppose-daca-350674/ Mon, 11 Sep 2017 18:36:35 GMT by JOHN BINDER 10 Sep 2017 Washington, D.C. 440 comments A Rasmussen poll reports that African-Americans, populist-conservatives, and... by JOHN BINDER
10 Sep 2017
Washington, D.C.
440 comments

A Rasmussen poll reports that African-Americans, populist-conservatives, and middle-class Americans are some of the most likely voters to oppose an Obama-created temporary amnesty program for illegal aliens.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions confirmed this week on behalf of President Trump’s administration that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that gave work permits and temporary amnesty to nearly 800,000 illegal aliens would ultimately end.

African-Americans are the most likely racial group in the United States to oppose DACA, with 42 percent wanting to see DACA end. A slim plurality of 47 percent supported the program, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll.

African-Americans’ disdain for DACA was more than both white Americans, who opposed the program by 37 percent, and other minority groups – like non-white Hispanic-Americans – who were the least likely to oppose the program at 33 percent.

Conservatives who strongly approve of Trump and his populist-nationalist agenda were the most likely of all sub-groups to oppose DACA. Fifty-six percent of that group agreed with Sessions’ announcement. Another 48 percent of American voters who somewhat approve of Trump said they too oppose DACA.

Middle-class Americans who earn between $50,000 and $100,000 a year opposed DACA by 42 percent, while 46 percent supported the amnesty program. The richest of Americans, those earning more than $200,000 a year, were one of the least likely income classes to oppose DACA, with only 33 percent opposing the program and 51 percent supporting DACA.

Overall, the poll indicated that less than half of American voters support DACA at 48 percent, while 37 percent oppose the amnesty program and another 16 percent were unsure.

Since DACA’s inception, more than 2,100 DACA recipients saw their protected status revoked for being involved in gang activity or suspected/convicted of a felony. Due to a loophole in the DACA program, more than 39,000 illegal aliens have been able to obtain Green Cards, and more than 1,000 have been naturalized.

http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2017/...o-oppose-daca/ ]]> Jean https://www.alipac.us/f18/poll-african-americans-populist-conservatives-most-likely-oppose-daca-350674/ Most Still Oppose Driver’s Licenses For Those Here Illegally https://www.alipac.us/f18/most-still-oppose-driver%92s-licenses-those-here-illegally-349280/ Wed, 02 Aug 2017 18:31:55 GMT Tuesday, August 01, 2017

California, one of 12 U.S. states that allow illegal immigrants to obtain driver's licenses, is on track to issue nearly a million such licenses by the end of the year. But most voters continue to oppose licenses for illegals in the state they live in.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that just 28% of Likely U.S. voters think illegal immigrants should be eligible for driver’s licenses in their state, although that's up from 22% in 2013 and is the highest level of support measured in surveys since 2007. Sixty-one percent (61%), however, continue to oppose giving illegal immigrants driver’s licenses where they live. Eleven percent (11%) remain undecided.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/publ...here_illegally ]]> Jean https://www.alipac.us/f18/most-still-oppose-driver%92s-licenses-those-here-illegally-349280/ Surveys Show 60 Percent Opposition to all Immigration https://www.alipac.us/f18/surveys-show-60-percent-opposition-all-immigration-349273/ Wed, 02 Aug 2017 16:53:26 GMT Image: http://media.breitbart.com/media/2017/08/GettyImages-86342101-640x480.jpg by NEIL MUNRO 1 Aug 2017 1,545 comments Roughly sixty...

by NEIL MUNRO
1 Aug 2017
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Roughly sixty percent of surveyed respondents want to stop all legal and illegal immigration, says a pair of sophisticated polls which allowed people to speak their mind without fear of progressives’ hate.

The polls of white Americans also showed that American college graduates are even more opposed to immigration than the average American, flipping the commonplace claim that people with additional years of education are more welcoming of divide-and-rule diversity than are blue-collar Americans.

The little-known 2010 report also showed that almost three-of-four white liberals hide their preference for zero immigration. According to the survey, which was conducted in 2005:

Political liberals are considerably more likely than moderates or conservatives to conceal support for immigration restrictionism. While 26 percent of liberals claim to support cutting off immigration in response to a direct question, 71 percent of liberals [when asked indirectly] support immigration restrictionism.

The second poll was conducted in 2010 and was published in 2014. It showed similar opposition to any and all immigration — plus a greater willingness by employed Americans to reveal their opposition. The second study concluded:

The results suggest that respondents mask their opposition and [that] underlying anti-immigration sentiment is far higher than direct estimates suggest even before the financial crisis… We implore future efforts to measure anti-immigration sentiment to be cautious about direct measurement of opposition, as these measures underestimate anti-immigration sentiment both before and after the financial crisis.

The surveys help explain popular opposition to the establishment-boosted cheap-labor-and-amnesty “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” bill of 2013, and also help explain the hidden public support for candidate Donald Trump in the 2016 election.

Both polls focused on white people because they are cheaper and simpler to survey. Other polls show large but hidden opposition to immigration among African-American and Latino populations, who also share whites’ sympathy for striving migrants.

Under pre-Trump policies, the federal government annually imports 1 million legal immigrants into the United States, just as 4 million young Americans turn 18. The federal government also awards roughly 1.5 million temporary work permits to foreigners, grants temporary work visas to roughly 500,000 new contract workers, such as H-1B workers, and also largely ignores the resident population of eight million employed illegal immigrants. These new migrant foreigners serve both as lower-wage workers to drag down labor costs, but also as welfare-aided consumers to push up consumption of company products and services.

This nation’s cheap-labor immigration policy has a huge impact on the economy — and it creates massive financial incentives for investors and employers to inflate public support for mass immigration. For example, Facebook founder Marc Zuckerberg funded a skewed poll in 2014 to boost apparent public support for the “Gang of Eight” comprehensive immigration bill in 2013. In contrast, very few public polls try to find out what people really think about immigration.

The first of the two surveys were conducted by academic Alexander Janus, now teaching at Edinburgh University, and was published in December 2010 by the peer reviewed journal, Social Science Quarterly.It is titled “The Influence of Social Desirability Pressures on Expressed Immigration Attitudes.” Janus conducted his survey from October 2005 through February 2006 via the existing Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences survey.

He divided his sample of 700 non-Hispanic whites into two demographically similar groups.

The first group was told: “Now I am going to read you three/four things that sometimes people oppose or are against. After I read all three/four, just tell me HOW MANY of them you oppose. I don’t want to know which ones, just HOW MANY.” The issues were federal government increasing assistance to the poor, professional athletes making millions of dollars per year, and large corporations polluting the environment.

The second group was presented with the same question and the same list of issues— plus an “unobtrusive” fourth issue about “Cutting off immigration to the United States.” The first group showed the baseline answer — and the increased response in the second group showed the hidden answer to the immigration question.

This chart shows the percentage of people who support “cutting off immigration to the United States” in the “unobtrusive estimate” column:

The “unobtrusive column” shows 61 percent of all respondents favor “cutting off immigration.” So do 71 percent of liberals, 63 percent of Democrats, 71 percent of college graduates — but only 41 percent of people with postgraduate degrees.

The paper also shows that roughly one-third of the 61 percent — or 19 points — hide their real opinion from pollsters. Almost two-thirds of college graduates — 42 points of the 71 percent — also hide their opinions. According to the survey paper:

This study suggests that almost one out of three (31 percent) Americans who are in favor of cutting off immigration hide their restrictionist sentiments when asked directlly …

This study’s findings serve as a call to immigration scholars to be more sensitive to self-presentational concerns within the survey interview, a topic that for a long time has captured the interest of the racial attitudes literature but has received scant attention from scholars who study immigration.

The “group effect” question refers to a section where the pollsters asked people if they have a “warm” or “cool” attitude towards immigrants. It reveals only a small difference between the two groups on “cutting off” immigration.

The second survey has 793 people in the first control group, plus 816 people in the “unobtrusive” group who were asked the extra question about immigration. It is titled “Has Opposition to Immigration Increased in the U.S. after the Economic Crisis? An Experimental Approach,” and it concluded:

Opposition to immigration, although higher than that estimated directly, does not increase after the economic crisis. Instead, the post-crisis period is marked by greater tolerance to overtly expressed anti-immigration sentiment, despite little change in the underlying true levels of opposition. This … suggests that the U.S. general population of reference sees appearing tolerant as less favorable/important.

A third careful academic survey on immigration shows that Americans’ attitudes about H-1B visas are not linked to attitudes about immigration by Indians, many of whom are H-1B workers. Instead, their attitudes about H-1Bs are based on worry about economic threats. The study is called “Economic Explanations for Opposition to Immigration: Distinguishing between Prevalence and Conditional Impact.”

When asked by Breitbart News about his survey, Janus responded by urging more studies to determine what Americans focus on when they think about immigration:

"I would be cautious about drawing too much from the results of this study. Respondents could have had different interpretations of the immigration item. Does ‘immigration’ refer to legal or undocumented immigration? My sense is that one of the most divisive issues is what to do about the people who are already in this country illegally, but we do not ask about this. Additional studies that use alternative methodologies that control for social desirability or that use alternative immigration questions are clearly needed."

The two studies show far greater opposition to immigration than most polls — partly because most polls are designed to manipulate Americans — white, Latino and African-American — into declaring support for immigrants and immigration. In general, the poll numbers are easy to manipulate because Americans do like many individual immigrants, and they do want to be seen liking immigration.

But opposition to the mass immigration policies is often visible in the business-funded polls. For example, the 2014 Zuckerberg poll got high approved for amnesty by asking skewed questions — but it also showed that intense Latino concerns. For example, 78 percent of Hispanic respondents supported “substantially increasing security among US-Mexican border.” and 77 percent favored rules requiring companies to check job applicants’ documents.

The media is often loath to admit what the numbers show. A July 2016 poll by vox.com showed that Midwesterners were particularly opposed to immigration, foreshadowing Trump’s decisive victory in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. But Vox’s progressive staffers simply ignored their data and claimed that the numbers show public “concerns about physical security — crime and terrorism — are more important than concerns about jobs and the economy.

Media polls are usually skewed by professional and political alliances. In fact, one D.C.-based pollster for a famous newspaper told his reporter in 2014 that he polled people to find out how they respond to questions, but not to find out what they really believe.

Pollsters and polling companies do not want to irritate business and political clients who favor the mass inflow of workers and consumers. So they have a commercial incentive to not collect, not notice and not publish anti-immigration, pro-American results from the public.

Pro-American advocacy groups have sometimes exposed the public’s worry about mass-immigration — but their data has been treated as unreliable. But a few pollsters have produced good data on the issue, including Kellyanne Conway, who helped Trump shape his pro-American — not anti-immigrant — message in 2016.

Very few media people have recognized the deep public opposition to mass immigration. For example, Julia Preston, the former chief immigration reporter at the New York Times, rarely wrote about the public’s suppressed attitudes towards cheap-labor immigration. Instead, she served as a megaphone for foreigners’ concerns when she was employed at the NYT, and in her subsequent work as a reporter for the Marshall Project. For example, Preston wrote this recent article about migrants’ worries:

Tens of thousands of families from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, and some from Mexico, came here citing their need for protection from predatory gangs and criminal violence. Now, they face the prospect of being sent back to countries they fear have not become any less dangerous.

Of nearly 100,000 parents and children who have come before the courts since 2014, most asking for refuge, judges have issued rulings in at least 32,500 cases, court records show. The majority — 70 percent — ended with deportation orders in absentia, pronounced by judges to empty courtrooms.

But her views are out of step with public opinion. For example, the comments by the mostly liberal readers of the Washington Post showed near-universal hostility to Preston’s welcome-the-migrants theme. The top-ranked comment, for example, says:

This is stupidity. Just because your home nation is filled with violence and savagery, doesn’t make you America’s problem. I feel bad for these people, but they still have no case.

The current annual flood of foreign labor spikes profits and Wall Street values by cutting salaries for manual and skilled labor offered by blue-collar and white-collar employees. It also drives up real estate prices, widens wealth-gaps, reduces high-tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, hurts kids’ schools and college education, and sidelines at least 5 million marginalized Americans and their families.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...n-immigration/ ]]> Jean https://www.alipac.us/f18/surveys-show-60-percent-opposition-all-immigration-349273/ Poll: Majority of Americans Want Merit-Based Immigration https://www.alipac.us/f18/poll-majority-americans-want-merit-based-immigration-345986/ Wed, 12 Apr 2017 18:07:25 GMT by JOHN BINDER 12 Apr 2017 Washington, D.C. A new survey shows widespread support for President Donald Trump’s plan to swap current U.S.... by JOHN BINDER
12 Apr 2017
Washington, D.C.

A new survey shows widespread support for President Donald Trump’s plan to swap current U.S. immigration policy, based on family-ties, toward entry based on skills and merit.

In a Rasmussen Reports poll, 44 percent of likely American voters want to move to a merit-based immigration system that only admits legal immigrants if their skills are needed in the U.S.

Only 37 percent of likely voters want to keep the current legal immigration system which is based solely on family chain migration. Another 18 percent of likely voters said they did not know which system they would prefer.

Men, as well as younger likely voters, much prefer a merit-based immigration system, with 51 percent saying they would like to see a switch, as opposed to 38 percent of women. Voters between the ages 18 to 30 favored a merit system by 49 percent. Voters from 40 to 64 preferred the status quo by 43 percent.

While Trump’s merit-based plan is wildly popular with 60 percent of Republicans, likely voters who do not identify with either of the two major political parties show 47 percent support as well.

The poll also found that Americans continue to support deportations of illegal immigrants, even if the illegal immigrant has a child in the U.S.

Forty-five percent of likely voters said illegal immigrants with children born in the U.S. should not be exempt from deportation. Only 37 percent disagreed.

Across party lines, deportations of illegal immigrants with children remains popular, with 62 percent of Republicans supporting the action, along with 30 percent of Democrats and 46 percent of American voters who are not affiliated with either major political party.

http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2017/...d-immigration/ ]]> Jean https://www.alipac.us/f18/poll-majority-americans-want-merit-based-immigration-345986/ California opposes sanctuary cities, Berkeley poll suggests https://www.alipac.us/f18/california-opposes-sanctuary-cities-berkeley-poll-suggests-345400/ Wed, 29 Mar 2017 04:03:39 GMT March 28, 2017 Californians are overwhelmingly opposed to sanctuary city immigration policies, according to a poll commissioned by UC Berkeley... March 28, 2017

Californians are overwhelmingly opposed to sanctuary city immigration policies, according to a poll commissioned by UC Berkeley Institute for Governmental Studies (IGS). As a caveat, the director of IGS notes 99.5 percent of participants in the poll were citizens, and the survey was only conducted in English.

Between Aug. 11 and Aug. 26, Survey Sampling International conducted the poll on behalf of UC Berkeley, sampling 1,098 respondents. Of those polled, 74 percent said local authorities should not be allowed to ignore federal detainer requests. The other 26 percent supported the sanctuary city policy of preventing local police and sheriff’s officials from honoring immigration holds.

The poll results indicate Californians across the political spectrum and among all major ethnic groups oppose sanctuary city policies. The policy of ignoring federal detainer requests was opposed by 73 percent of Democrats, 82 percent of Republicans and 71 percent of independents, according to UC Berkley.

Additionally, 65 percent of Latinos, 75 percent of Asian and African Americans and 80 percent of whites opposed sanctuary city policies.

“We found very broad-based opposition to the idea of sanctuary cities,” said Jack Citrin, the director of IGS and a UC Berkeley political science professor who has studies immigration for years. “Californians want their local officials to abide by the requests of federal authorities.”

In order to gauge the impact of a recent high-profile incident on Californians’ sentiments, Survey Sampling International told half the participants about the killing of Cal Poly grad Kate Steinle, including the fact that the alleged killer was an illegal immigrant who had been previously deported several times and recently released from jail. The other half of participants were not told about the Steinle case.

The results showed the Steinle murder had relatively little impact on Californians’ views on sanctuary cities.

Of those who were only asked about policy, 71 percent said cities should not be allowed to ignore federal detainer requests. Among those who were told about the Steinle shooting, 76 percent said they were opposed to sanctuary city policies.

https://calcoastnews.com/2017/03/cal...poll-suggests/ ]]> Jean https://www.alipac.us/f18/california-opposes-sanctuary-cities-berkeley-poll-suggests-345400/ Poll: Only 35 Percent of Americans Want to Live in Sanctuary Cities https://www.alipac.us/f18/poll-only-35-percent-americans-want-live-sanctuary-cities-345323/ Mon, 27 Mar 2017 04:09:12 GMT Image: http://media.breitbart.com/media/2017/02/Sanctuary-cities-Miami-sign-2-ap-640x480.jpg by JOHN BINDER 25 Mar 2017 New Orleans, LA 895...

by JOHN BINDER
25 Mar 2017
New Orleans, LA
895 comments

A small minority of likely Americans voters say they want to live in sanctuary cities where criminal illegal immigrants are shielded from federal immigration law.

In a new Rasmussen poll, only 35 percent of Americans said they would like to live in a community that declared itself a “sanctuary city” while 52 percent would not. Some 14 percent were on the fence.

Working-class Americans are least likely to favor living in a sanctuary city, with only 25 percent supporting the idea and 63 percent opposing.

Wealthy Americans, on the other hand, are the most likely to support living in a sanctuary city. Forty-one percent stated support for sanctuary cities and 40 percent opposed the idea.

Even Americans who identify themselves as “liberal” are split on the issue. Roughly 54 percent say they would want to live in one, while 34 percent stand opposed.

Black Americans are less likely to support sanctuary policies than whites. A minority of 34 percent black voters and 36 percent of whites Americans feel the same.

When it comes to whether or not sanctuary cities are more safe or less safe than communities that do not shield illegal immigrants from federal immigration law, surprisingly young Americans are the most likely to say sanctuary cities are less safe.

Some 43 percent of 18- to 39-year-olds agree that sanctuary communities are less safe than non-sanctuary communities, while only 20 percent say that sanctuary cities are safer.

For Americans making $30,000 or less, only 16 percent say that sanctuary cities are safer, and 40 percent say sanctuary communities are less safe.

America’s wealthiest voters, those making more than $200,000 per year, are most likely to say that sanctuary cities are safer than non-sanctuary jurisdictions. The poll shows 30 percent saying they’re safer and 32 percent saying they are less safe.

The Rasmussen poll supports previous polling results, where 74 percent of voters from one of the most liberal states, California, said sanctuary city policies should be ended, as Breitbart Texas reported.

http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2017/...ctuary-cities/ ]]> Jean https://www.alipac.us/f18/poll-only-35-percent-americans-want-live-sanctuary-cities-345323/ Poll: Voters Trust GOP Over Democrats on Immigration https://www.alipac.us/f18/poll-voters-trust-gop-over-democrats-immigration-344229/ Tue, 28 Feb 2017 18:30:29 GMT Survey also finds Americans believe Trump delivering on key promises by Brendan Kirby | Updated 28 Feb 2017 at 1:07 PM Voters trust Republicans... Survey also finds Americans believe Trump delivering on key promises

by Brendan Kirby | Updated 28 Feb 2017 at 1:07 PM

Voters trust Republicans in Congress over Democrats to handle immigration, according to a Politico/Morning Consult poll released Tuesday.

The survey of 2,000 registered voters conducted from Friday through Sunday also shows President Donald Trump with a 50-percent approval rating — one of the highest marks of his presidency — and that 56 percent believe the president is delivering on his campaign promises. A large majority, 69 percent, said Trump has accomplished as much or more than they expected during his first month in office.

The poll offers positive news for Trump has he prepares to address a join session of Congress Tuesday evening.

On immigration, 45 percent of respondents said they trust congressional Republicans more, while 36 percent trust Democrats. The 8-point spread is one of the largest gaps on any of the issued polled.

And yet, people expressed views closer to Democrats on a number of immigration specifics. Asked about people living illegally in the country, 46 percent favored a path to citizenship and another 7 percent preferred legal status short of citizenship. Only 38 percent said those foreigners should be forced to leave.

A majority of voters favored more immigration by people with skills and college degrees, and 55 percent even said America should allow more immigrants with only high school degrees.

On the question of whether immigrants strengthen the country or are a burden, respondents split 43 percent to 43 percent.

Chris Chmielenski, director of content and activism at NumbersUSA, said he believes voters said they favor Republicans on immigration because they associate the question with enforcement of laws against illegal immigration. He pointed to a Harvard-Harris poll last week indicating that 80 percent of respondents believe cities and counties should report illegal immigrants to federal authorities.

Chmielenski said people tend to favor mass amnesty over mass deportation if given a stark choice. He said he suspects the poll would have produced different results if it had asked about specific classes of illegal immigrants, such as those who commit crimes.

Even with fewer options, he said, it is noteworthy that 38 percent of respondents favored deportation of illegal immigrants.

“That’s a pretty high number,” he said.

Since the immigration debate tends to be dominated by questions of illegal immigration, Chmielenski said, people think less about the implications of legal immigration. He said Americans are pre-disposed to support immigration. But he added that most people think the ideal number of immigrants is far lower than the 1.1 million who enter each year.

“You see in the responses that most people are open to immigration, as we are. We’re pro-immigration,” he said. “But the second you insert the number, that a million people a year come into the country, that’s when you start to see the responses shift a little bit … Unfortunately, the vast majority don’t realize just how generous we are on immigration.”

The poll also suggests that 61 percent of voters want the number of H-1B visas for high-skill guest workers to remain the same or increase. A plurality think that H-1B visa workers help the economy. The program has come under fire the past few years amid reports that large corporations have used it to outsource jobs.

Chmielenski noted the large number of respondents who expressed no opinion as a sign that many people simply do not know enough about the program.

The question asked in the poll described the visa holders as "highly skilled, trained" workers. But Chmielenski said that in practice, H-1B visa workers often are not exceptionally talented.

"The reality is they only have to have a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience," he said.

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