Majority View on Illegals in Line With GOP

Posted Aug 18th 2007 6:43PM by Scott
Filed under: President 2008, Democrats, Immigration

Immigration will be an important issue in the 2008 elections and Republicans may just have an issue to top the Democrats:

Fifty-eight percent (58%) of voters nationwide favor cutting off federal funds for "sanctuary cities" that offer protection to illegal immigrants. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that just 29% are opposed. Republican Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney proposed such a plan earlier this week.

By a 71% to 16% margin, voters also favor a proposal that would require all foreign visitors to carry a universal identification card as proposed by another GOP Presidential hopeful, Rudy Giuliani. Seventy-four percent (74%) also favor the creation and funding of a central database to track all foreign visitors in the United States.

Those are serious numbers and ones that the GOP can use to further the issue of securing the border and finally forcing Congress to deal with the immigration problem.

In the last week, we saw Newark, NJ Mayor Corey Booker (follow the link and see what unlikely groups are saying "enough!") defend his policy of not asking or investigating the immigration status of those they arrest in the midst of an illegal alien with a long criminal history (including rape of a five-year old) executing three college students behind a school. The story was big all over the country and the immigration issue was given more exposure.

The Democrats should be asked what their thoughts are and the answers will be interesting as they will have to pander to the Hispanic base while not going so far as to say anything that will be usable in the general election.

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