Thread: 59% Say U.S. Government Encourages Illegal Immigration

59% Say U.S. Government Encourages Illegal Immigration

Thursday, September 15, 2011
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Most voters nationwide continue to believe government policies encourage illegal immigration and support using the military along the U.S.-Mexican border. But they remain divided as to whether the federal government or individual states should enforce immigration laws.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely Voters shows that 59% believe the policies and practices of the federal government encourage illegal immigration. Just 23% disagree while another 18% are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

The number of voters who believe the federal government's policies encourage people to enter the country illegally is virtually unchanged from May and is in line with findings since October 2009.

Majorities of Republicans (70%) and voters not affiliated with either party (61%) believe the government’s policies encourage illegal immigration, a view shared by 46% of Democrats.

Most Mainstream voters believe the government encourages illegal immigration, while 48% of Political Class voters say that is not the case.

Forty-seven percent (47%) believe the better approach to dealing with illegal immigration is relying on the federal government to enforce the law, but the same number (46%) says it is better to allow individual states to act on their own to enforce it.

Voters have been divided on the question for the past several surveys, but the number that thinks allowing states to enforce the law is the better approach is down nine points from last September when Arizona's crackdown on illegal immigration was in the news.

The survey of 1,000 Likely U.S. Voters was conducted on September 12-13, 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.

Most voters (61%) support using the U.S. military along the border to prevent illegal immigration. Twenty-six percent (26%) do not support the military being used along the border. Another 12% are undecided. Those results are virtually identical to those found in May.

However, support for the military along the border is down slightly from last May when President Obama announced he was sending troops there but only to prevent Mexican drug violence from spilling over into this country.

While voters have consistently supported tough penalties on employers who hire illegal immigrants, nearly half believe that illegal immigrants do the jobs Americans don’t want to do.

A majority of voters remain opposed to giving the children of illegal immigrants the same educational opportunities as those who are here legally.

Voters continue to believe strongly that gaining control of the border is more important than legalizing the status of undocumented workers already living in the United States.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_ ... mmigration

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A finding that appears far down in the report is that less than half of the “political classâ€

Why aren’t the New York Times and Washington Post honest about the main reason unemployment rates and poverty rates in the US are the highest in decades?[/quote]



Honest did you say????? What is that word mean?????

Originally Posted by kathyet

Honest did you say????? What is that word mean?????

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This is over a year old. It is now the lowest in history.