Thread: Americans are abandoning their support for a path to citizenship for illegal aliens

This side of paradise. (Sam Hodgson/Bloomberg News)
A record number of unaccompanied minors have been apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border so far this year, and that's likely shifting the country's opinion about immigration policy.
The majority of Americans now want the government to speed up the process by which it decides whether or not to deport undocumented workers in the country—even if it means deporting some people who would otherwise qualify for asylum, according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center.
Republicans and Independents are significantly more likely to favor expediting the process—60 percent of Republicans and 56 percent of Independents want to speed it up—while Democrats are roughly evenly split—46 percent favor expedition, but 47 percent would prefer to follow current immigration policy.

Whites are also a good deal more likely than blacks to favor a speedier deportation process. And Hispanics, rather surprisingly, are about split.


The most pronounced split, however, is that between the country's old and young. In fact, the older Americans get, the more likely they are to support a speedier—even if flawed—deportation process. Of Americans aged 65 years and older, 60 percent want the process to be expedited, while only 38 percent of those between the ages of 18 and 29 felt the same way.




These sentiments—those that value speed even when it comes at the expense of fairness—are only becoming more popular. Americans, overall, are actually abandoning their support for a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, according to Pew.

The public remains supportive of a broad revamp of the immigration system to allow people in the U.S. illegally to gain legal status if they meet certain requirements. But overall support for a path to legal status has slipped to 68% from 73% in February.

The drop is consistent across political lines but most pronounced among Republicans, 43 percent of which now believe undocumented immigrants should not be allowed asylum in the U.S.


"We've definitely seen some movement in the last few weeks," Mike Allison, an associate professor of political science at The University of Scranton said in an interview. "There used to be greater support for comprehensive immigration reform. A lot of that change has to do with the coverage of unaccompanied minors," he said.

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We must accept that our non-policy of not enforcing our laws was a great mistake of those that WE, unfortunately, elected. Now we must accept the cost of correction. But we need a Washington that would support a national policy. Deportation of all aliens as far back as Nov. 7, 1986 within 24 months.

That policy will never be accepted unless their is wholesale cleansing of the un-American Congress! Never in my life have I seen American government so willing to allow other nations nationals to kill Americans AND take American jobs away from Americans, but it started with that acting president, busting unions, amnesty, and open borders. Citizens rights must be fully restored, a new period of allowing Americans pursue life, liberty and happiness!

Dear "kevinssdad:"

You are obviously a good guy with the right ideas, but I am confused why you interject "busting unions" into the list of causes for this illegal alien invasion. Are you aware that the major unions are almost all in favor of amnesty for illegal aliens?

The courts have been corrupted by liberal's appointing hacks, ideologue judges so that now fair hones application of the law is dubious at best. According to Mark Steyn and, I believe, Mark Levin, already 65% of illegal aliens have been granted "asylum." That can not possibly be the result of fair and impartial application of the law. Something stinks here. To "expedite" the process for adjudicating legal status would be nothing more than speeding up the process for granting "asylum" (sic. amnesty).

There is no good reason to go into this whole "fair hearing" crap. You enter illegally you are sent back immediately. Do dam judge bullshit. This is just more of the endless scams by the hard left to legalize, illegal aliens.

NO DAMN AJUDICATION, NO DAM LIBERAL HACK JUDGES, IMMEDIATE DEPORTATON. THESE ARE FOREIGNERS WHO SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE; THEY ARE NOT AMERICAN CITIZENS WHO NEED LEGAL PROTECTIONS.

American citizens get a judge, illegal foreigners get the boot. Enough with the endless obfuscation, "legal rights," etc. the left uses to dance us around in circles.

ALL ILLEGAL ALIENS GO HOME NOW.