Monday, November 9, 2009

Immigrationpolls.com

Here at http://www.immigrationpolls.com/, I found an interesting poll combination done by USA Today/ Gallup Poll, CNN/ Opinion Research Corporation Poll, NBC News/ Wall Street Journal Poll, Los Angeles Times/ Bloomberg Poll. One question really caught my eye. N=505 in the USA Today/ Gallup Poll asks: "In your view, what should be the higher priority in dealing with the issue of illegal immigration: developing a plan for halting the flow of illegal immigrants into the U.S., or developing a plan to deal with illegal immigrants who are already in the U.S., or should both be given the same priority?" I felt that the answers given were fairly thought-provoking. 54% believed that the same level of importance for each topic is necessary. What I found interesting was the fact that there was quite a large number of people who felt that one was more important over the other; 20% believing in halting the flow of immigrants to this country and 25% believing that the illegal immigrant population within the country is more important. Personally, I would have thought that more would believe in a balance of the two...

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