Hello Monday,
In these past week I have been searching through some articles focusing around the American's public feelings towards immigration to see if the numbers of how people are polling is the 'real' feelings of Americans or if insincerity is misrepresenting some public polls. When I say insincerity, I mean people do not have a real opinion one way or another when it comes down to asking One poll I came across seemed to scream insincerity. Here is the link
The question itself is "Thinking about the issue of immigration, do you think the federal government's top priority should be securing the country's borders, or passing new immigration legislation, or should both be done at the same time"
Now I wont even go into how the polling was done which was through the telephone PLUS fox news was the primary pollster signaling a bias towards conservatism. Yet majority of the respondents said both. A clear indication that many really didn't have a strong opinion one way or another if the federal government's top priority is securing the country's border or even passing new legislation. But majority simply said both. For me this looked like many of the respondents used the easy 'both' as a real opinion yet it seemed more of a middle ground leaning towards not really having an opinion at all. What are your thoughts? Is this an example of insincerity or does the American public really want both as plausible solutions for illegal immigration?
I think in this age in time, Americans put terrorism at the top of their concerns. Terrorism and Immigration go hand in hand. I can see how you could say "Both" is an easy option, but it is an actual option. Doing one and not the other defeats the purpose. Because of the "hottness" of this issue, legislation is going to take a long time. But securing the borders is something that one should ask "to what extent"? I guess what I'm trying to say is you've got to do both in order to actually tackle the issue at hand.
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