Overwhelming majority of americans oppose amnesty.

[LilOlLady]

OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF AMERICANS OPPOSE AMNESTY.
and the President is not listening to the Ameircan people.

70% of Americans say it’s important to locate and deport those residing in the U.S. illegally, 53% say children born to illegal immigrant parents should not be automatic citizens. An incredible 92% of those responding said developing a plan to stop the flow of illegal immigrants into the U.S. is important, including 74% who said it’s very important. Just 7% said such a plan is not important. (August 20-23, 2010 ZOGBY International Poll)

Seventy-eight percent (78%) of likely voters were opposed to legalizing the status of the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. with only 19% supporting it. 88% of African-Americans were opposed to legalization. Pulse Opinion Research, LLC, September, 2009
Illegal Immigration Polls & Surveys

Left wing MSNBC media polls show majority of Americans support amnesty?

 

[waltky]

Obama gonna fix it...

White House, Senators Launching Immigration Push
Saturday, January 26, 2013, WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama will launch a campaign next week aimed at overhauling the nation's flawed immigration system and creating legal status for millions, as a bipartisan Senate group nears agreement on achieving the same goals.

The proposals from Obama and lawmakers will mark the start of what is expected to be a contentious and emotional process with deep political implications. Latino voters overwhelmingly backed Obama in the 2012 election, leaving Republicans grappling for a way to regain their standing with an increasingly powerful pool of voters. The president will press his case for immigration changes during a trip to Las Vegas Tuesday. The Senate working group is also aiming to outline its proposals next week, according to a Senate aide.

A migrants' rights activist holds a sign that reads in Spanish "Obama, migration agreement right now!" outside the U.S. embassy on Obama's inauguration day, in Mexico City, Monday, Jan. 21, 2013. Protesters say Obama's administration has failed to address immigration promptly.

Administration officials say Obama's second-term immigration push will be a continuation of the principles he outlined during his first four years in office but failed to act on. He is expected to revive his little-noticed 2011 immigration "blueprint," which calls for a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants that includes paying fines and back taxes; increased border security; mandatory penalties for businesses that employ unauthorized immigrants; and improvements to the legal immigration system, including giving green cards to high-skilled workers and lifting caps on legal immigration for the immediate family members of U.S. citizens. "What has been absent in the time since he put those principles forward has been a willingness by Republicans, generally speaking, to move forward with comprehensive immigration reform," White House press secretary Jay Carney said. "What he hopes is that that dynamic has changed."

The political dynamic does appear to have shifted following the November election. Despite making little progress on immigration in his first term, Obama won more than 70 percent of the Latino vote, in part because of the conservative positions on immigration that Republican nominee Mitt Romney staked out during the GOP primary. Latino voters accounted for 10 percent of the electorate in November.

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[Procrustes Stretched]

OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF AMERICANS OPPOSE AMNESTY.

Why do they all hate Ronald Reagan?

 

[slackjawed]

Nothing new, this has been going on quite awhile.

Sisters of Mercy - FEATURED ARTICLE: A Shameful Tradition: A History of Nativism in the United States

from the link;
"The Know-Nothing movement formed the American Party—a group devoted to strict limits on immigrant admissions, 21-year waiting periods for citizenship and restrictions on voting and holding office. In the 1854 and 1855 elections, the American Party won seven governorships, gained control of eight state legislatures and established a strong presence in Congress. In 1856 the party won 22 percent of the popular vote. But the decline of the American Party was as swift and dramatic as its ascent. Ironically, the slavery controversy that helped elevate anti-Catholic xenophobia in antebellum America was the driving force behind its demise. The new Republican Party siphoned away nativist voters who were more devoted to excluding slavery from the territories than to the Know-Nothings’ “war to the hilt on political Romanism.” By 1860 the movement had collapsed. Immigration from Northern and Western Europe flourished in subsequent decades, fueled by federal recruitment efforts, the Homestead Act of 1862 and spreading industrialization. "


at least they were more transparent back then when they chose their name.

 

[RoadVirus]

Doesn't matter what Americans think about Amnesty. The Dumbos and the pansy-ass pandering Republicans will push for it anyway.