Decisive majorities on immigration law enforcement
A new Pew poll found strong support for immigration law enforcement and strong disapproval of the administration’s handling of immigration policy:
73% say they approve of requiring people to produce documents verifying their legal status if police ask for them. Two-thirds (67%) approve of allowing police to detain anyone who cannot verify their legal status, while 62% approve of allowing police to question people they think may be in the country illegally…the public is highly critical of Barack Obama’s handling of immigration policy. Just 25% approve of the way Obama is handling the issue, while more than twice as many (54%) disapprove.
WSJ: “President Barack Obama harshly criticized an Arizona measure to crack down on illegal immigration and made clear Friday that he is looking for an election-year fight over the volatile issue…The president said it was the state that was ‘misguided’ and that the Arizona measure would ‘undermine basic notions of fairness that we cherish as Americans’.” That position does not appear to be a political winner. HT Ann Althouse
May 15th, 2010 at 3:20 am
Our Marxist prez doesn’t understand the difference between fair and equal. If I have a job and earn a buck, and someone hops the border and shows up, we should both have fifty cents in his opinion. Of course, if I went the other way, I’d be jailed and deported, but that doesn’t count. I’m just a racist for disagreeing.
He’s one catastrophic failure away from wresting the mantle of “worst president ever” from Jimmy Carter. I say he makes it this year. By 2012, nobody will admit have voted for him.