Thread: Poll: Public Wants Illegals to Go Home

Poll: Public Wants Illegals to Go Home

Public Prefers Enforcement, Not Senate Legalization Approach

WASHINGTON - New polling shows a strong preference for enforcing U.S. Immigration laws that cause illegal aliens to go home. Advocacy groups and even some media outlets have released surveys showing support for legalizing illegals. However, those polls often gave voters a very limited choice between large-scale deportations or "earned legalization," or simply asked about conditional legalization without any alternative. When given the across-the-board enforcement option, with the goal of causing illegals to go home, the public strongly favors the enforcement approach over legalization with conditions.

Contrary to the new Senate bill, most Americans want less and not more immigration. When told the number of immigrants here and the number coming, 70 percent of voters said the level is too high, 19 percent said it is about right, and 5 percent said too low.


75% of Republicans said immigration is too high, 5% said too low.

69% of Democrats said immigration is too high, 6% said too low.

71% of self described moderates said immigration is too high, 4% said too low.

Public prefers that illegals go home, rather than be legalized. 58 percent of voters said they wanted illegals to go home, compared to 30 percent who favored legalization. The public still overwhelmingly supported enforcement over legalization even when many conditions are imposed on illegals like paying a fine, learning English and undergoing a background check.

Americans support enforcement to make illegals go home. When presented by itself, 79 percent of the public said they supported reducing the illegal immigrant population by increasing border enforcement, penalizing employers, and increasing cooperation with local law enforcement, while 15 percent were opposed. No other proposal had near this level of support.

"Many polls give only the false choice of legalization or mass deportations. Some even give legalization as an option in isolation without other alternatives. But when given across-the-board enforcement that causes illegals to go home as an option, the public overwhelmingly supports it rather than legalization with conditions," said Jessica Echard, Executive Director of Eagle Forum. "This poll shows why Senators who support the Kennedy-Kyl amnesty are facing such a firestorm of opposition from constituents."

This National Survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC on May 15, 2007. The margin of sampling error for the survey is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence.

Pulse Opinion Research, LLC is an independent public opinion research firm using automated polling methodology and procedures licensed from Rasmussen Reports, LLC.

Eagle Forum Immigration Poll Summary (PDF)
http://www.eagleforum.org/alert/2007/poll-summary.pdf


Eagle Forum Immigration Poll Detailed Results (PDF)
http://www.eagleforum.org/alert/2007/poll-results.pdf

http://www.eagleforum.org/alert/2007/05-22-07.html

HOW did "THE TRUTH" get out???????

I heard it on the radio this morning as well.

THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DO NOT, REPEAT, DO NOT, WANT ANY PATH OF ANY KIND WHICH WOULD LEAD TO CITIZENSHIP GIVEN TO ANY PERSON WHO HAS ENTERED OUR COUNTRY ILLEGALLY.

The bottom line is that people believe that REWARDING people who entered illegally with citizenship will ONLY encourage more of it.

We do not want that to happen.

Even the French can figure this one out.

Question: Has anyone EVER heard that it is the Democrats who are DEMANDING a path to citizenship and that President Bush does not require any path to citizenship, but that he DEMANDS a guest worker program? (which does not need a path to citizenship)

I heard this from Tony Snow this morning approximately 9am on 920AM.

Tony Snow-Job is the Minister of Disinformation. He is our version of Bagdad Bob.

Thank you Eagle Forum for conducting this scientific and certified professional poll and sending it out at this crucial time. Later today, we will add this to our homepage and do our best to distribute this critical information the public and lawmakers need.

William Gheen
www.alipac.us

Added to Home Page:
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This is fair enough, the illegal immigrants cant be entertained to live over a place for a long period of time. There are already many problems to deal with additionally these immigrants issue is making things even more tense. But I do have a feeling that this job is easier said than done, it wont be an easy task to revert these people from where they came so quickly.

This poll only confirms what most Americans already know! The only problem is that the politicians seem to be looking at polls taken by illegal immigrants! Sen. Graham was on a news network the other night and similar poll numbers were presented to him by the news commentator. Sen. Graham's response was, "Well, I can show you numbers that say just the opposite!" HELLO!!!...How deep has he buried his head in the sand?? But alas...this seems to be the overwhelming perception of most our politicians in Washington...including our President! Aren't they in store for a rude awakening in 2008!!

I think the numbers for attrition through enforcement would be higher if more americians were informed. Some don't even know there is an alternative to the hair brained ideas our represntitives come up with.