Thread: More Propaganda From Stephen Klineberg

April 20, 2009
Most residents favor citizenship for illegal immigrants

We talk a lot here about the mood of the region and country on immigration. It's rare, however, to actually quantify people's opinions on the matter.

We can get a peek into residents' attitudes locally thanks to the 2009 Houston Area Survey, conducted by Stephen Klineberg, the Rice University sociology professor who has directed the annual survey since 1982.

Klineberg says his survey, released this week, shows that the recent negative views of immigrants in general have begun to turn around. However, it's a bit more nuanced than that.

The data does show that the majority of residents in the Houston area support a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. However, half of the survey respondents said they support a law that would deny health and welfare services to illegal immigrants in Texas. Here's a summary from Klineberg on the survey:

The numbers of area residents who believe that the new immigration "mostly strengthens American culture" increased from 39 percent in 1997 to 57 percent in 2005, and then dropped to 44 percent in 2007, before recovering to 49 percent in this year's survey.

The percentage of area residents who favor "granting illegal immigrants a path to legal citizenship if they speak English and have no criminal record" dropped from 68 percent in 2007 to 56 percent in 2008, and then recovered to 61 percent in this year's survey.

The numbers saying that the increasing ethnic diversity brought about by immigration is a "good thing" dropped from 67 percent in 2005 to 62 percent in 2007, and remained unchanged (at 61 percent) in 2009.

In the 2009 survey, 64 percent agreed that, "The children of illegal immigrants should have the right to attend the public schools," down from 71 percent in 2007.

68 percent today are in favor of "imposing fines and criminal charges against employers in this community who hire illegal immigrants," up from 56 percent two years ago.

In 2007, 44 percent were in favor of "a law that would deny health and welfare services to il-legal immigrants in Texas." In 2009, 50 percent were in support of that proposal.

This survey of 706 randomly selected Harris County adults was conducted Feb. 3 through Feb. 25 by the University of Houston Center for Public Policy.

The margin of error is plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.

http://blogs.chron.com/immigration/arch ... t_262.html

http://urc.rice.edu/content.aspx?id=1924

http://has.rice.edu/WorkArea/linkit.asp ... ItemID=250

She is an Ivory Tower idiot liberal.

It really doesn't matter what Houston thinks(IMO) because the city certainly isn't representative of the rest of the nation. Basically put, Houston is about as significant as a pimple on a gnat's butt where the big picture is concerned.

In 2007, 44 percent were in favor of "a law that would deny health and welfare services to il-legal immigrants in Texas." In 2009, 50 percent were in support of that proposal.

The percentage of area residents who favor "granting illegal immigrants a path to legal citizenship if they speak English and have no criminal record" dropped from 68 percent in 2007 to 56 percent in 2008, and then recovered to 61 percent in this year's survey.

Hmmm..........50% are in support of denying health and welfare benefits to illegals, yet 61% support legalizing illegals. IMO, that doesn't make a lot of sense because once you legalize them, they'll all eventually become eligible for health and welfare benefits.

BS US SO MUCH... President gets his facts from where?

vmonkey56 wrote:

BS US SO MUCH... President gets his facts from where?

From a whopping 706 people. Houston has a population of over 2 million folks and Harris county has over 4 million.

This guy must have sent some student out to stand in front of the
Fiesta Marts in Houston, TX.

Originally Posted by MW

It really doesn't matter what Houston thinks(IMO) because the city certainly isn't representative of the rest of the nation. Basically put, Houston is about as significant as a pimple on a gnat's butt where the big picture is concerned.

The problem is HOUSTON doesn't feel this way. This guy keep putting out the results of his survey but unlike most valid research studies he doesn't let anyone know what instrument was used, or the procedures in taking the survey. Funny thing is also, he never seems to publish his studies in a peer reviewed journal. They just get used as propaganda by open borders groups.

Originally Posted by MW

vmonkey56 wrote:

From a whopping 706 people. Houston has a population of over 2 million folks and Harris county has over 4 million.

Yes, so where did he find the 706 people? Probably like Dixie said, standing in front of Fiesta Supermarkets.

Originally Posted by Dixie

This guy must have sent some student out to stand in front of the
Fiesta Marts in Houston, TX.

Yep, the student was probably part of ACORN! Once the student tired of questioning about 300 illegals, he then probably fudged the other 406 survey forms and collected his paycheck.