REUTERS HAVE LOST THEIR MIND!!!!

Poll: GOP voters want immigration reform now
Favor allowing legal status & tighter border controls this year

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13489164/



REUTERS:
Updated: 5:26 p.m. ET June 22, 2006
WASHINGTON - Most U.S. Republican voters support giving illegal immigrants a chance to earn legal status even as border controls are tightened -- and they think it should happen this year, a poll released Thursday said.
The poll, commissioned by the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, found that 82 per cent of likely Republican voters supported tightening the borders and imposing tougher penalties on illegal immigrants and employers who hire them.
It said about 80 percent of Republicans support an earned legalization program to give immigrants legal status. The majority, 68 percent, also oppose deportation for illegal immigrants, the poll said.
There is a real desire for the majority of Republicans to find a solution for this problem," Brian Nienaber, vice-president of The Tarrance Group, which conducted the research, told reporters.
About 72 per cent of the Republicans surveyed said it was important to solve the problem of illegal immigration this year, according to the poll.
Disagreement at the top
President Bush, a Republican, is pushing for a broad bill along the lines of proposals that would tighten security at the border and give a path to citizenship for most of the more than 11 million illegal immigrants who live in the United States.
But the House and Senate, both under Republican control, have passed competing versions that must be reconciled to become law. The House version calls for tough border control and workplace enforcement but does not include a citizenship plan as in the Senate's version.
Republican congressional leaders say it will be hard to complete a bill before November's midterm elections. Some Republicans called for new hearings that could postpone an agreement even more.
National security is still the top concern for the Republican voters at 20 percent, but immigration came second in the poll at 15 percent.
The poll included interviews with 804 likely Republican voters in various U.S. states from June 12-15. The margin of error was plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.


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I'd like to see how those questions were posed. This poll is out of whack with everything I have read.

The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research:

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Personnel

Senior Fellows

* Stephen Goldsmith
* Myron Magnet
* Abigail Thernstrom[3] (http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/scholars.htm)


Staff

* Staff (http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/mi_staff.htm)


Board of Trustees

* Dietrich Weisman, Chairman of the Board; Neuberger & Berman
* Byron R. Wien, Vice Chairman; Morgan Stanley & Co.
* Roger Hertog, Chairman Emeritus; Alliance Capital Management
* Charles H. Brunie, Chairman Emeritus; Brunie Associates
* Richard Gilder, Chairman Emeritus; Gilder, Gagnon, and Howe & Co.
* Lawrence Mone, President
* Robert J. Appel, Appel Associates
* Eugene D. Brody, Picanet Partners
* Andrew Cader
* Timothy G. Dalton, Jr., Dalton Enterprises
* Peter M. Flanigan, UBS Warburg
* Mark Gerson, Gerson Lehrman Group
* Maurice R. Greenberg, American International Group
* H. Dale Hemmerdinger, ATCO Properties & Management
* John W. Holman, Jr., Hintz, Holman & Robillard
* Bruce Kovner, Caxton Corporation
* William Kristol, Editor of the Weekly Standard
* Frank J. Macchiarola, St. Francis College
* Walter Mintz, Cumberland Associates
* Rodney W. Nichols
* Edward J. Nicoll, Instinet Group Inc.
* Peggy Noonan
* James Piereson, John M. Olin Foundation
* Joseph H. Reich, Beginning With Children Foundation
* Richard Reiss, Jr., Georgica Advisors
* Joseph L. Rice III, Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc.
* Robert Rosenkranz, Delphi Financial Group
* Nathan E. Saint-Amand, MD
* Lewis A. Sanders, Alliance Capital Management
* Andrew M. Saul, Saul Partners
* Robert Skidelsky
* Thomas W. Smith, Prescott Investors
* William K. Tell, Jr.
* Thomas J. Tisch, FLF Associates
* Walter B. Wriston
* Kathryn S. Wylde, New York City Partnership and Chamber of Commerce
* Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek International
* Martin E. Zweig, Zweig Companies [4]

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I see that open borders supporter William Kristol is a board member of this group. I'll do some checking to see if many other members of this group are open borders advocates as well.

Remember, polls can easily be framed to provide the results the group commissioning the poll wants.

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It said about 80 percent of Republicans support an earned legalization program to give immigrants legal status.

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I'm a registered Republican and find it hard to believe I fall in the 20 percentile range on this issue. What gives? :x

I e-mailed reuters and told them this poll is backwards,who did they ask ,ILLegals?

This poll is a complete lie.

W

Here's the headline from a recent article by Tamar Jacoby, Senior Fellow at the Manhatton Institute:

"House hard-liners have no plan for illegal immigrants already here"

http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/op ... 183933.php

Tamar appears to be the Institute's hit woman on immigration. You can see more of her work on their website: http://www.manhattan-institute.org/.

The Wikipedia entry on MI describes them as "corporate funded" and is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Institute

I think their bias on the issue is pretty clear.

The Manhattan Institute is a top Open Borders think tank. Funny the news outlets did not mention that.

W

question is, what can we do about it? Issue a rebuttal, demand to see the poll and results? Conduct our own poll?