NYT/Reuters: Most Americans Favor Guest-Worker Program: Poll

[DeepModem Mom]

Most Americans Favor Guest - Worker Program: Poll
By REUTERS
Published: November 21, 2006

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Most Americans believe illegal immigrants should be allowed to become guest workers and eventually U.S. citizens, but Congress should do more to close the border to stop more illegals entering the country, according to a new poll published on Tuesday.

The nationwide poll, conducted by Quinnipiac University, found that by a margin of 69 percent to 27 percent, American voters say illegal immigrants should be allowed into a guest worker program with the ability to work toward citizenship over a period of several years. Such a guest worker program had wide support among voters of all political stripes.

But 71 percent of voters said Congress must do more to deal with illegal immigrants entering the country....

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Sixty-five percent of American voters support -- and 32 percent oppose -- laws in their own community to fine businesses hiring illegal immigrants, according to the poll....

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/washington/politics-usa-immigration-poll.html

[babylonsister]

1. That's way too logical for this country! What happened?

Are they polling different people?

[EFerrari]

2. Maybe they polled Canada by accident?

lol

[sutz12]

3. This actually makes sense to me...

This might have been as much the reason we won the house as the Iraq war. On both issues, the Repubs put up hard line, idealogical "solutions." The American people finally showed that they are smarter than the RW nutbags the Repub party has been putting up.

The "real" statement here is that the American people want comprehensive reform, not knee jerk wall building and lining the border with military troops we don't have anyway. Fianlly, we demand some substance, not fluff.

[justice1]

4. I support a guest worker program, but not if it is tied to specific employers.