Posted on 07/29/2014 9:49:48 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In case you’ve been wondering why Democrats have been pounding the idea so hard that this is a “refugee” crisis at the border, not an “illegal immigration” crisis, here’s what happens when people are asked which statement comes closest to their view:
In fact, under current U.S. law, the kids don’t qualify as “refugees.” That’s one of the sticking points in the White House’s proposal to send envoys to Honduras and start processing asylum applications there: How can we grant “refugee” status to someone who’s fleeing street gangs, not racial/religious/political persecution? If this result is accurate, the public doesn’t much care. Danger, at least with respect to kids, may be sufficient to move someone from the “illegal” column to the “refugee” category. What the limiting principle on that is for future waves of illegal border crossings, I have no idea.
How much should we trust this data, though? Here’s another result from the same poll that suggests people are … “conflicted,” I guess, is a nice way to put it.
Sixty-nine percent think the kids should stay if it’s not safe for them to go home and 71 percent completely or mostly agree that we should shelter anyone who’s facing danger in their native country, but 59 percent think we shouldn’t let the kids stay lest it encourage further illegal immigration. Okay then. Also, my pal Karl notes on Twitter that other polls seem to contradict the “let them stay” result here. From Pew:
The difference there could be a product of how the question is phrased: There’s no mention of “refugees” or, more importantly, the physical danger kids might face if sent home, but the reference to asylum at least suggests it. Or maybe it doesn’t contradict the result above as much as we might think. People are willing to see some refugees deported in the name of expediting the kids’ cases, but maybe they’d still support asylum for most, especially if you stressed that it’s not safe in Central America.
Karl also points to this CNN result:
CNN got that result even though, when asked whether most of the kids are refugees or illegal immigrants, 51 percent said the former comes closer to their view versus 45 percent who said the latter. That same poll also found a general trend towards security: Whereas in the past most Americans thought legalizing illegals should be the main focus should be on legalizing illegals who are already here, 51 percent now say security should be the focus.
Any theories on how all of this squares? I’m always open to “one poll’s an outlier” but my hunch is that it’s case of public opinion responding to the right terminology. The more sympathetic you make the situation — the kids are “refugees,” they’re uniformly young waifs, they’re leaving because of violence — the better the numbers will be. The truth, that many kids are teenagers or are traveling with moms who say they’re fleeing poverty, not violence, doesn’t play as well.
Since the safety issue, is a canard ship them out. Now.
It just goes to show.. apply the right imagery and propaganda, and you can get Americans to agree to their own destruction.
I say we find some G4S drivers and pay them several thousands of dollars each to deliver them to the neighborhoods of the pro-Amnesty politicians neighborhoods. I’m sure Nanccy Pelosi, Ianne Feinstein, Barbara Boxer, Harry Reid, Jeb Bush, et al won’t mind.
I was thinking about that in regards to the bombing of Gaza. If the Palis don’t care about their kids, why should Israel care more about them? Israel should care more about Israeli kids. Americans should care more about their kids. If the scum in Central America are willing to sacrifice their kids to become members of our welfare state, why should we offer more compassion than their own parents and thereby exceed the compassion we have for our own kids?
Mob rule?
We have laws. They want us to rule by media run polls
67% vs 11% in a poll published yesterday want the kids to go
So. Let’s focus on the rule of law or go through proper channels to change
And anyone answering the poll must be asked to take on assimilating clothing educating feeding and sheltering at least one. And for life, like any other parenting responsibility
How do we become responsible for the children of another country? Do these people actually think that this is a good idea. If so when does it stop and who is going to care for them? I don’t see these idiots coming forward to accept the children into their home,
Lock and Load, my FRiend, Lock and Load - - - .
Using government justice dept statistics for their demographic, extrapolate the number of robberies, break ins, murders and drunk driving deaths likely to be committed by these “children” and then ask Americans the same question.
It just goes to show if you manufacture fake poll results or take the poll in an all Hispanic or minority neighborhood you can always tell people what they should think...
Assimilators vs. Agitators. The latter need kicked out, and that includes some who are already citizens. The last thing we need is another Community Organizer, let alone a raftload.
Slave labor is here. Put them to work cleaning up Detroit and building a better fence. No voting until proper recourse made for those who have entered our land “on a bad foot” (illegally).
Just get ready for a whole lot more of this. Bolivia just lowered its child labor age to 10. Every Libtard in the US is gonna be on a mission...
What if there is a flotilla of refugees from any other country in the world. If they make it to our shores are they welcome? Lots of starving people from African and middle eastern countries. Maybe 100 boat loads of 3-4,000 each could survive the journey. (With Obama help of course).
What's the betting line that this will equal 100% of the little Husseins (aka bastards)?
Every child should stay, as long as those families who believe so are willing to send one of THEIR children to take his place! That will put a QUICK end to it!
We really need to break apart into two countries.
It is safe for them to go home, this is a made up crisis, right out of the Oval Office. Nobody is walking 1400 miles from Honduras to Texas. Nobody!
Your tax dollars are paying for train rides, busses, and charted airlines.
They are coming because of advertisements in newspapers, radio and posters are promising a free ride in America,
They are not escaping violence. The violence comes from the gangs along the way, beatings, robberies and rape.
This is Obamas doing and it must be stopped, somehow.
Where did they find the people to poll? At a Demotard convention?
69% of which Americans? Nobody asked me, though admittedly their phones and heads would no doubt explode from my response if the ever did.
Ask the right question, “Should they be sent back if the children are teenagers connected with gangs that have robbed, raped and murdered?”
80% of the “children” are teenagers.
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