A nationwide survey of actual voters reveals that Americans strongly support immigration enforcement, and that less than one-third of Obama voters favor granting amnesty to illegal aliens.
One complaint voiced by many conservatives regarding the last presidential election is the fact that there was practically no attention paid by either candidate to illegal aliens and immigration enforcement. In fact, the victory by President-Elect Barack Obama has led to some illegal alien advocates claiming the American people support amnesty for immigration lawbreakers.
However, a nationwide survey of actual voters reveals that Americans strongly support immigration enforcement, and that less than one-third of Obama voters favor granting amnesty to illegal aliens.
The poll conducted by Zogby International on behalf of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) on November 5 and 6 — and obtained by the National Association of Chiefs of Police – also found that a decisive majority of voters believe that an illegal alien amnesty would "further harm the interests of struggling American workers."
Among the key findings of the poll are:
– Only 32% of Obama voters considered his support for amnesty a factor in their decision to vote for him. 67% said it was either not a factor at all, or they voted for Obama in spite of his stance on amnesty.
– 60% of voters said reducing illegal immigration and cracking down on employers who hire them is important to them, while only 21% supported "legalizing or creating a pathway to citizenship" for illegal aliens.
– 57% of voters stated that amnesty would harm American workers and further strain public resources, while only 26% believe amnesty would aid economic recovery and ease public burdens.
The findings of the poll commissioned by FAIR of all voters are similar to an unrelated poll conducted of Latino voters by Zogby and Univision on the eve of the election. That poll found that 54% of Latino voters placed concern about the economy as their top voting priority, while only 11% said that immigration was their number one concern.
It makes good sense that Latino voters placed concern about the economy over concern for immigration. If our economy isn’t going to improve, they will probably want to move back to Mexico, and then the immigration stuff won’t matter anymore.
Unfortunately immigration is a long term issue. Currently illegal immigration and the mis-interpreted concept of allowing birth citizenships is costing us hundreds of billions each year. The only reasonable solution is to remove the illegals via economic pressure such as jobs, criminal action, and denial of benefits that should accrue only to citizens and those in the country legally. Beyond all these issues is the legal immigration mess. We seem to have a penchant for bringing in the worst and dumbest instead of the best and brightest. Couple this with the goverment sanctioned slaughter of our IT and engineering workers via visa chicanery and we have a continuing formula for failure…but don’t worry be happy change is coming to open or borders and look for more chances to decimate our native workforce.