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    59% Favor Cutoff of Federal Funds to Sanctuary Cities

    59% Favor Cutoff of Federal Funds to Sanctuary Cities

    Tuesday, May 10, 2011
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    New legislation being considered by the House would stop all federal funding for cities that give sanctuary to illegal immigrants, and most voters like the idea. But very few believe Congress is likely to pass such a measure.

    A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 59% of Likely U.S. Voters favor a cutoff of federal funds to so-called sanctuary cities. Just 28% are opposed and 13% are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

    However, only 29% of voters think Congress is even somewhat likely to agree to cut off funds to cities that provide sanctuary for illegal immigrants. Twice as many, 55% say Congress is unlikely to take such an action. Those figures include 9% who say Congress is Very Likely to act and 11% who say action is Not At All Likely. Seventeen percent (17%) are not sure.

    Regardless of Congressional action, 58% of voters think the U.S. Justice Department should take legal action against cities that provide sanctuary for illegal immigrants. Twenty-six percent (26%) are opposed to having the Justice Department prosecute sanctuary cities and 16% are not sure. Those figures have changed little since last summer.

    Just 17% support the creation of sanctuary cities in which some illegal immigrants are not turned over to federal immigration authorities unless they are convicted of committing a felony crime. Sixty-five percent (65%) oppose the establishment of sanctuary cities. Nearly one-in-five voters (18%) are undecided about them. This marks little change from October 2009.

    The survey of 1,000 Likely U.S. Voters was conducted on May 7, 2011 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.

    A number of U.S. cities, ranging from big ones like Chicago, Los Angeles and New York City to smaller ones like Cambridge, Massachusetts; Austin, Texas and Albuquerque, New Mexico, have either declared themselves sanctuary cities or refuse to work with federal immigration authorities as police department policy.

    When asked last summer why the Justice Department was suing the state of Arizona for enforcing immigration law but not going after sanctuary cities for failing to enforce the law, a spokesman for Attorney General Eric Holder told The Washington Times, "There is a big difference between a state or locality saying they are not going to use their resources to enforce a federal law, as so-called 'sanctuary cities' have done, and a state passing its own immigration policy that actively interferes with federal law.â€
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    When it comes to illegal immigration, most voters believe the government just needs to enforce the laws that are already on the books rather than create new laws.
    Of course!
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    61% Oppose U.S. Citizenship for Children Born to Illegal Immigrants http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_ ... immigrants

    More Voters Still Think Federal Government Encourages Illegal Immigration http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_ ... mmigration

    67% of Political Class Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction, 84% of Mainstream Disagrees http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_ ... _disagrees

    63% Still Believe Border Control Is Top Immigration Priority http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_ ... n_priority

    61% Say Enforcing Immigration Laws Would Cut Poverty http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_ ... ut_poverty

    Most Voters Say It’s Better to Enforce Existing Immigration Laws Than Create New Ones http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_ ... e_new_ones

    67% Favor Automatic Police Immigration Checks, Most Support Sanctions on Employers and Landlords http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_ ... _landlords
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    Cut funding to santurary funding

    If you hit them in the pocket book, they will fix the problem themselves.
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