According to a new NBC/WSJ poll, nearly two-thirds of Americans back Arizona’s new anti-illegal immigration. Really? Did they poll me? I think not.
Nearly two-thirds of Americans back Arizona’s new anti-illegal immigration law, which makes it a state crime for a person to be in the country illegally. The law also requires local and state law enforcement officials to question people about their immigration status if they suspect they’re in the country illegally.
Sixty-four percent favor this law, while 34 percent oppose it. But those numbers are essentially reversed among Latinos — with 70 percent of them opposing the law, and only 27 percent supporting it.
The rest of the information will be released later this evening. Click here for more. And to read up on local anti-immigrant bias, read this week’s Boomer With Attitude column.
This article appears in May 11-17, 2010.
Most Americans supported the Iraq invasion. Most support medicare and the income tax. Most voted for Obama. Increasing numbers are pushing for an Iran attack. The majority numbers do not necessarily mean that it is right.
Since the AZ law is based on an unconstitutional law, I can’t support it. AZ has to determine who is legally in their state as it is a state right to determine immigration status. How will they do that? They still should roll back government big time over there.
There was a time when a majority of Americans supported slavery.
There was a time when the feared and hated newcomers were the Irish, Chinese, Italians, Hungarians, Cubans, Haitians, etc.
Americans seem to be instinctively xenophobic.
Draw a line anywhere and watch people line up on either side of it and start running down the people on the other side.