Thread: Democrats want tougher immigration enforcement

8:46 AM, September 14, 2010 ι Abby Wisse Schachter

A new Quinipiac poll regarding immigration has caused a stir because a majority of respondents agree that children of illegal immigrants should not be granted birthright citizenship (48 percent to 45 percent). But the results of another question on the survey points to a more significant change in attitudes toward immigration reform. The pollsters asked the following: "Do you think immigration reform should primarily move in the direction of integrating illegal immigrants into American society or in the direction of stricter enforcement of laws against illegal immigration?" Predictably among Republicans 87 percent favor stricer enforcement. The surprise comes among registered Democrats and independents who favor stricter enforcement by margins of 50 percent to 39 percent and 68 percent to 24 percent respectively. This means that the Obama administration's lawsuit against Arizona's new stricter enforcement law is actually not what half of Democrats want the government to be doing. A majority of Democrats and more than two-thirds of independents want the Obama administration to focus on enforcement of the current immigration laws rather than trying to find ways of providing illegals with amnesty.

President Obama has lost voters' trust because he doesn't represent their values and immigration reform policy is just one more example of that.
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