Thread: Oklahoma Poll on Bush and Immigration

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Oklahoma Poll
KOTV - 7/21/2006 6:19 AM - Updated: 7/21/2006 6:20 AM
The latest News on 6, Tulsa World Oklahoma Poll shows Oklahomans aren't especially happy with President Bush's handling of immigration issues.

Oklahomans are overwhelmingly in favor of proposals that would tighten controls on immigration and requirements for citizenship. The latest poll shows 54-percent of our statewide sample disapproves of the way President Bush is handling immigration. 34-percent approve.

We also asked if voters favored a program that would grant established illegal immigrants citizenship if they had a job and paid back taxes. 75 percent of you said yes. 22 percent opposed the idea.

And Oklahomans favor getting tough with employers who hire illegal immigrants. 83-percent say there should be increased penalties for employers who hire illegals. Only 12 percent oppose the idea.

The current policy of sending National Guard troops to patrol the Mexican border is popular with Oklahomans. 76-percent in our poll support the idea. 18-percent oppose it.

Finally, Oklahomans are split on the idea of a guest worker program. It would permit foreign citizens to enter the country for several months to work, but not allow them to apply for citizenship. Our random sample of voters was split on this issue.

This Oklahoma Poll sampled one thousand likely voters. It has a 3 percent margin of error.

Look for more detail and analysis in Friday's Tulsa World.

Oklahomans are overwhelmingly in favor of proposals that would tighten controls on immigration and requirements for citizenship. The latest poll shows 54-percent of our statewide sample disapproves of the way President Bush is handling immigration. 34-percent approve.

We also asked if voters favored a program that would grant established illegal immigrants citizenship if they had a job and paid back taxes. 75 percent of you said yes. 22 percent opposed the idea.

OK, maybe I'm too dense. Could someone explain to me the difference between bush's 'guest worker' plan and granting illegals with jobs citizenship?

The above makes not one lick of sense to me

Quote:We also asked if voters favored a program that would grant established illegal immigrants citizenship if they had a job and paid back taxes. 75 percent of you said yes. 22 percent opposed the idea.


How can you really be established if you don't have a job?Or don't pay taxes? No, I am not in favor of this, I am an Oklahoman,I don't have any compassion for illegals even if they are "eatablished". They are illegal, plain and simple, go home and come back the right way, then I will welcome you to my state! I am sure I would recieve any compassion and esp. a path to citizenship of their country, if I were there illegaly.I would most likely be deported or heaven forbid spend time in one of their jails.I am tired of being expected to have compsssion for the worlds people, when they so blatently hate America and or not afraid to say so. I am tired of being politically correct just because I happen to live in America and it is expected of me, doesn't matter what people everywhere else in the world feels toward me. Thats bullcrap, I am sorry, any compassion I have I will save for my own people, the legal citizens of Oklahoma and thee United States! I am going to leave my share of that political correct behavior for the Liberals of this country.
Plain and simple, if you are illegal, don't expect me to compensate you for that kind of behavior, go home now!

I agree NittyGritty,

They have been taking advantage of America for far too long. I think the marches in May shocked us all at the numbers of illegals in this country. If we don't do something soon, we will have millions upon millions of foreigners coming here illegally. Enough is enough. This would never be happening anywhere else in the world without public outcry and we are no different. "Illegal has no rac", just like Mayor Barletta stated. Stealing social services and identity fraud are crimes. Legal American's get charged with these crime every year so why should illegals get away with it. That is exactly what is happening.

They get no pity from me either and if they have been here longer than 10 years, I am twice as mad!

We also asked if voters favored a program that would grant established illegal immigrants citizenship if they had a job and paid back taxes. 75 percent of you said yes. 22 percent opposed the idea.

Not even possible! I sure would like to see the exact wording on that question. Who sponsored this poll anyways? Wonder how many of those 1000 polled were hispanic or 1st or 2nd generation immigrants? A poll is only as fair as the deversity of its sampling.

CC, welcome to our fight, you are so right, the longer they are here the madder it makes me! MW, I would like to see the names on that poll myself, I know they didn't ask any of us rednecks down here in my neck of the woods! they wouldn't dare, they know they wouldn't like the answers! Redneck does not stand for Racist either, here it stands for good country people who obey the laws and expect everyone else to even the government!