Legalize longtime immigrants, most tell CNN poll; deport recent arrivals

[DeepModem Mom]

Legalize longtime immigrants, most tell poll
Majority also favors proposal to deport more-recent arrivals
Tuesday, April 25, 2006

(CNN) -- More than three-quarters of Americans favor allowing illegal immigrants who have spent many years in the United States to apply for citizenship, according to a poll conducted for CNN by Opinion Research Corp.

In the poll, released Tuesday, 77 percent of those responding favored allowing illegal immigrants who have been in United States for more than five years to stay and apply for citizenship if they have a job, and pay a fine and back taxes. Twenty percent said they opposed such a measure.

A majority opposed a proposal to allow iIlegal immigrants who have been in the United States for two to five years to stay on a temporary basis, without a chance to apply for U.S. citizenship. Fifty-four percent opposed that measure, and 40 percent favored it.

A proposal to deport illegal immigrants in the United States for less than two years was favored by 64 percent and opposed by 31 percent....

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A proposal being considered by the Senate would treat illegal immigrants differently based on the amount of time they have lived in the United States....

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/25/immigration.poll/index.html

[bluedog]

1. where was this poll? CNN?

I never seen it..........darn.missed out to voice my concerns......

[Gormy Cuss]

2. It was a telephone survey , not a web vote.

Opinion Research conducted the survey and I would guess it was done with controls to make it representative (with a certain number of replies by region of the country, by ethnicity, by gender,by age cohort.) If done in this way it is considered more reliable than polls on web sites or call in votes.

[Igel]

3. First stop the flow.

Every time there's an amnesty it just reinforces the idea that the easiest way to US residency is to come over the border and wait it out ... the idiot gringos don't enforce their border laws, why should we respect them?

It's gotten to the point that many have convinced themselves, as one Salvadoran that was interviewed on NPR, that they came here not to make more money and send it home, but to "build America ... because we've worked, we have a right to citizenship."

Must be that latest amendment I've heard about, making all jobs under the jurisdiction of the DOD, so they all count as military service.