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COULD WE GET SOME IMMIGRANTS WHO CAN TAKE A POLL?
Ann Coulter ^ | 1-8-2014 | Ann Coulter

Posted on 01/08/2014 2:40:18 PM PST by smoothsailing

January 8, 2014

COULD WE GET SOME IMMIGRANTS WHO CAN TAKE A POLL?

With Republicans tying themselves in knots over the Democrats' destructive, but superficially appealing, demand that unemployment benefits be extended to two and a half years, I return to my suggestion that Republicans stop playing defense and go on offense.

For every issue that MSNBC loves to prattle on about, gloating that it will cost Republicans this or that demographic, there's an equivalent issue to use against the Democrats. (The difference is: Our proposals would actually be good for the country.)

In addition to my repeated suggestion that Republicans introduce bills to institutionalize the dangerous mentally ill and force the Democrats to defend the right of psychos to crap in libraries and shoot up schools, Republicans should take the public's side on immigration.

Democrats love to pretend their sucking up to illegals is all upside for them, but that's because they lie even when taking polls.

Liberals will claim that 99 percent of Americans favor national health care after taking a poll that asks: "Do you support Americans being nice to one another?"

WAIT! THAT'S NOT A POLL ABOUT NATIONAL HEALTH CARE!

It's the same thing. The government providing free health care to everyone is just being nice.

They'll claim "90 percent of Americans favor banning most guns" based on a poll that asks, "Are you for common sense gun safety or are you against it?"

Similarly, the immigration polls triumphantly brandished by the media ask about positions no one holds, no politician has proposed and no bills would require. Polls are irrelevant if you lie to the people being polled.

Most immigration polls are variations on the one taken by the liberal Brookings Institution last March. Although it has been endlessly cited for allegedly showing that a majority of Americans support amnesty, the poll never asked about amnesty, or any real policy.

Rather, the poll gave respondents only two options, neither of which have been proposed by either political party or are up for a vote anywhere in America.

The options were:

"The best way to solve the country's illegal immigration problem is to secure our borders and arrest and deport all those who are here illegally";

Or:

"The best way to solve the country's illegal immigration problem is to both secure our borders and provide an earned path to citizenship for illegal immigrants already in the U.S."

Neither of those choices describes the position of anyone on either side of the immigration debate. Amnesty proponents have no intention of either securing the border or making illegals do anything to "earn" citizenship. Meanwhile, not a single amnesty opponent has proposed any program to "arrest and deport" illegals.

But amnesty proponents turn around and cite this fraudulent poll as proof that a majority of Americans support "a path to legalization."

This is how the left uses polls to manipulate public opinion, rather than find out what it is. They provide the ingredients for today's political discussion and we're not allowed to pick any items off the menu.

But can't I be against amnesty without voting for rounding up illegals at gunpoint?

No substitutions! Look at the menu.

All the "path to legalization" polls play the same trick. Either armed men round up millions of women and children at midnight, put them in leg irons and immediately deport them on stinky buses; or we offer them a "path to legalization" after meeting all sorts of onerous requirements (none of which will ever materialize).

There were loads of promises surrounding Ronald Reagan's 1986 amnesty, too -- such as securing the border, punishing employers who hire illegals and forcing illegals to pay back taxes. Sen. Teddy Kennedy vowed: "We will secure the borders henceforth. We will never again bring forward another amnesty bill like this." (Those were the good old days when they were willing to call it "amnesty.")

Obviously, that promise ended up in the same place Mary Jo Kopechne did -- underwater and unmentioned.

After the bill passed, then-Rep. Chuck Schumer (Gov. Chris Christie's current immigration adviser) immediately introduced a bill excusing illegal aliens from having to pay any back taxes at all.

Now, instead of 3 million illegal aliens living here, we have 11 million, salsa is the best-selling condiment in America, and I have to press "one" for English.

We already tried this the nice way. The country gets one mulligan, not two.

An honest poll question would ask:

Do you think people who have knowingly broken our laws to come here illegally with their families since the last amnesty should be rewarded with citizenship, or should they voluntarily go back the same way they came?

An even more honest immigration poll question would ask:

At a time of massive unemployment, do you think people who have knowingly broken our laws and come here illegally with their families since the last amnesty should be rewarded with citizenship, or should they voluntarily go back the same way they came?

Even a poll question that simply omits the lies about the theoretical hurdles illegals will have to clear (which will never happen) produces a poll in which a majority of Americans support "deportation."

Last year, the TechCrunch website polled this question: "Do you support or oppose deporting the 11 million undocumented immigrants currently living in the U.S.?"

Again: NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT DEPORTATION. We didn't round up 11 million foreigners to get them here, and we're not going to round them up to send them home. They'll leave the same way they came.

But even answering a stacked poll question asking about something no one has proposed -- deportation -- a majority of respondents, 53.4 percent, supported deportation, compared to 42 percent opposed. Among Republicans, 74.1 percent favored deportation, with only 22.3 percent opposed.

Not only that, but a Fox News poll last year showed that a majority of Americans would like to curtail legal immigration, with 55 percent supporting a decrease in legal immigrants and only 28 percent supporting an increase.

My thought is: Republicans should push policies that are popular.

But instead of proposing immigration reforms that are runaway hits with a majority of Americans -- without anyone even having made the argument! -- Republicans have been hoodwinked by Democrats into trying to outbid Democrats for the Hispanic vote. They still won't win the Hispanic vote, but now the rest of the country will hate Republicans, too.

COPYRIGHT 2014 ANN COULTER




TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty

1 posted on 01/08/2014 2:40:18 PM PST by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing

No habla englaise!!

Habla Obama!!!


2 posted on 01/08/2014 2:44:15 PM PST by stevie_d_64 (It's not the color of one's skin that offends people...it's how thin it is.)
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To: smoothsailing

Illegals should not be working in banks, driving trucks or working with children.

Whatever they are doing now is better than letting them compete with all jobs.


3 posted on 01/08/2014 2:48:19 PM PST by ObamahatesPACoal
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

Illegals should be put to work building a border fence. That’s FENCE, not wall. A wall would be covered with spray paint before the mortar dried.


4 posted on 01/08/2014 3:02:15 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Obamacare: You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

Illegal aliens don’t pay good money for fake IDs just to pick lettuce.

This guy, Bimbo Oyewole, is one small example http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2928207/posts


5 posted on 01/08/2014 3:10:24 PM PST by posterchild
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To: smoothsailing
RE: “Republicans have been hoodwinked by Democrats into trying to outbid Democrats for the Hispanic vote.”

Completely disagree.

Our Republican leadership basically supports mass immigration just as much as the Democrats do.

For Republican elites, the first goal is cheap, hard working labor, both skilled and unskilled.

The second goal - Republican elites see mass immigration as the only available political solution to the Social Security-Medicare-Medicaid Ponzi scheme.

Since Republican elites basically support most Democrat political policies, they don't care if millions of new immigrants vote for the Democrats.

6 posted on 01/08/2014 3:23:57 PM PST by zeestephen
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To: smoothsailing
Chuck Schumer (Gov. Chris Christie's current immigration adviser)...

Has Ann had a break-up in relations with Christie?

7 posted on 01/08/2014 3:24:56 PM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: C210N

Yes, I do believe the bloom is off the rose.


8 posted on 01/08/2014 3:28:49 PM PST by smoothsailing
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To: Rummyfan

Pic Ping.


9 posted on 01/08/2014 3:30:11 PM PST by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53cJQC0gVak


10 posted on 01/08/2014 3:47:16 PM PST by Dick Bachert (Ignorance is NOT BLISS. It is the ROAD TO SERFDOM! We're on a ROAD TRIP!!)
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To: smoothsailing

How about “Can we get some Polish immigrants”? They are hard workers, anti-communist, and mainly Christians, three things lacking in some of the other illegal immigrants.


11 posted on 01/08/2014 4:06:41 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: smoothsailing

I love the lib articles about ‘illegal immigrants HIDING in the shadows’.

If they know how many there are, how can they be hiding in the shadows? If they are hiding, why are they shown congregating and waving signs (and yelling)?

Don’t seem to be very hidden to me.


12 posted on 01/08/2014 4:16:58 PM PST by SusaninOhio
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To: SusaninOhio

"HIDING IN THE SHADOWS"

13 posted on 01/08/2014 4:42:14 PM PST by smoothsailing
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