Thread: New Jersey Poll Shows Mixed Feelings on Immigration

New Jersey Poll Shows Mixed Feelings on Immigration
WNYC Newsroom

NEW YORK, NY July 29, 2007 —About two-thirds of New Jersey residents in a new survey say they'd offer a "path to citizenship" to illegal immigrants who've lived and worked in the United States for at least two years.

Nearly all the rest surveyed, 30 percent, said illegal aliens should be deported, according to a Monmouth University/Gannett New Jersey released today. About 75 percent of those surveyed said illegal immigration is a serious problem for New Jersey. But respondents were more evenly divided on the overall impact of immigration, with 40 percent calling it good, and 44 percent saying it's bad.

In keeping with regional differences seen on other questions, residents in southern and central New Jersey had less favorable views of immigration: half felt it was bad for the state.

The telephone poll of 800 New Jersey adults has a sampling error margin of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.

http://www.wnyc.org/news/articles/83002

Let me explain New Jersey. We can divide the state into two groups on this issue.

Pro Amnesty:
I don't care because I live in an expensive house in an area where the only illegals are my maid, the day laborers who are remodeling the house across the street, and the guy washing dishes at the expensive restaurant I go to every night. And they are such great people. And look at Jose he is so creative wearing all of those blue colors and with those interesting letters and numbers "MS-13" tattooed all over him I bet he's an artist. It's racist to stereotype illegals. They are good people with family values who are living in poverty doing jobs Americans won't do.

They don't live near me so I just see the maid and her cute little anchor babies and those eyes staring up at me and I only see the propaganda they put on TV about illegals. I don't see Jose drunk off his ass urinating on my lawn.

Anti-Illegal:
It's hell. We have to live with them and pay for them and I think they just robbed my house...

About 75 percent of those surveyed said illegal immigration is a serious problem for New Jersey.

And yet, earlier you said 2/3rds of people would offer them a path to citizenship! What kind of poll is this???

Here we go again with the inaccurate polls coming out. This is about as believable as a poll being done in Miami, Florida and trying to say that it's indicative of how the entire country feels.

Um...try again, please. We're not that stupid.

Originally Posted by gofer

About 75 percent of those surveyed said illegal immigration is a serious problem for New Jersey.

And yet, earlier you said 2/3rds of people would offer them a path to citizenship! What kind of poll is this???

Liberals concoct these type of polls all the time. They "pre-select" their polling group by eliminating what they believe are conservatives and then put the questions to people who they know support illegal immigration in order to ratchet up the numbers. Liberal papers like the New York Times then publish them knowing what their original sources are.