[grania]

I liked my informal poll last weekend better, where respondents got to answer yes or no on each question.

The results were (with 137 respondents):

The borders of the US should be carefully monitored to eliminate illegal entry into the country as much as possible

Yes-97.8%; No-1.5%

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Those who are here illegally should be sent home

Yes-92.0%; No-3.0%; Depends/Qualified-3.6%

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Legal Entry into the country should be severely curtailed or eliminated

Yes-79.4%; No-18.4%; Depends/Qualified-1.5%

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None of the above. (or) We should support our elected officials' policies and goals with regard to the borders

Yes-1.5%; No-94.9%

I've never done a link, but I'll try it (maybe madfly or someone else can help me here). The poll on FR has the problems of most polls...it splinters the overwhelming support for fixing the border situation. When people didn't have to choose an option, it was clear that the only place there was any support for the status quo is that a significant percentage (but nothing close to a majority) support some form of legal immigration. Also, the succcinct comments of the respondents (some who are not regular posters) were very interesting.

[4Freedom]

With this poll, the 2% that voted for open borders can say that a majority of Americans can't be expected to agree on what to do about the borders, if we here at FR can't. So, everything should just stay as it is until we study the situation a little more.

This reminds me of that 'Go GOP' poll a couple months back.

[madfly]

Yes, I will put a link here for the poll. Go to your thread and reply to my name (ping me) and I'll get the URL.''

thanks for your work on this.

madfly

[madfly]

Here's a link to your poll, grania, as you requested. I thought this was posted in "General Interest". I wonder how it got back to "News"? hmmm

LINK

FREEPER POLL: CLOSE THE BORDERS?

Posted on 12/06/2002 6:50 PM MST by grania

OK...we've been reading a lot of opinion about the borders and we've been responding to a lot of polls at other sources. So, let's see how we stand at FR. Answer yes or no for each question A,B,C,D. At the end, write no more than two sentences which summarize your opinion about this issue.

A. The borders of the US should be carefully monitored to eliminate illegal entry into the country as much as possible.

B. Those who are here illegally should be sent home.

C. Legal entry into the country should be severely curtailed, or eliminated.

D. None of the above. We should support our elected officials policies and goals with regard to the borders.

Respond like this:

A. Yes or No

B. Yes or No

C. Yes or No

D. Yes or No

My opinion about this issue is: (two sentence maximum answer)

Have your friends freep our unscientific poll if you want, since we'll know if anyone posts twice.