Gauging U.S. Sentiment on Immigration
May 1, 2006, 9:38 pm |
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By Andrew L. Jaffee
AOL today posted an AP article about the immigration “protests” held today across the U.S. The online service added an interactive poll to the article asking users, “Should illegal immigrant status be a felony crime?” As of 9:27 PM EST tonight, 67% of 160,209 users had voted “Yes.”
AOL is mainstream — and one of the nation’s largest Internet service providers. AOL has about 20.8 million users, giving it approximately 22.1% of the ISP market for dial-up users. AOL certainly cannot be considered right- or left-wing; in fact, its choice of news stories is usually quite politically correct. It should also be noted that most “scientific” polls (e.g., Gallup) only survey 1000 or less people. So my “unscientific” conclusion here is that most Americans do not support an unlimited flood of illegal immigrants.
Let us just hope that U.S. House and Senate members are listening to Americans as a whole, not just mobs of illegal aliens that take to the street to make (intimidate) national policy.
Take action: Support LEGAL immigration.
Related: Immigration, Latin America, Media/Blogsphere, Political Correctness, Society, United States
May 2nd, 2006 at 11:09 pm
As long as money determines who will be elected and what will be supported by the elected,we shall not be a free democratic nation.We certainly do not have representative government. Worldcorp has bought that.Delbert W Allegood npublici
May 3rd, 2006 at 4:19 am
Your comment is cynical and dogmatic. The real problem is people getting off their rear ends and contacting their representatives. People are waking up to the immigration problem, thanks to the walkouts and “protests,” just as the Mohammed cartoon controversy woke non-Muslims up to the threat posed by Islamic extremists.