Pro-Immigration Propaganda
by James Buchanan
A recent article from the mainstream news media reports “Americans are divided about whether illegal immigrants help or hurt the country, a poll finds. More than one-half of those questioned are open to allowing undocumented workers to obtain some temporary legal status so they can stay in the United States. At the same time, people doubt that erecting a fence along the U.S.-Mexico border could help to fix such a complex and enduring problem, an AP-Ipsos poll found. Two-thirds do not think it would work. ‘You can’t go and round up 11 million people and ship them out of the country,’ said Robert Kelly. The Chicago lawyer is among the 56 percent of Americans who favor offering some kind of legal status. ‘It just isn’t practical,’ he said.”
This is such typical propaganda from the mainstream media. They throw out a (probably phony) poll that “discovers” that most Americans don’t want to crack down on illegals just as the open borders crowd in D.C. pushes for yet another amnesty. Assuming the poll wasn’t a complete fabrication, they no doubt weasel-worded the questions to make Americans think Bush’s “guest worker” program isn’t a stealth amnesty. The poll results were either completely bogus or done in the most liberal parts of the country to try to make normal Americans think they are in the minority. Public sentiment against illegal aliens is sky high often exceeding 80 percent for clearly-worded polls. (more…)