{"id":15977,"date":"2017-12-19T22:42:13","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T03:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=15977"},"modified":"2018-12-28T12:25:59","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T17:25:59","slug":"congress-hear-people-not-pollsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2017\/12\/19\/congress-hear-people-not-pollsters\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress, Hear the People, Not the Pollsters!"},"content":{"rendered":"
The San Francisco Chronicle<\/em><\/a> recently published an opinion piece written by the directors of several Bay Area religious organizations. Based on a single PBS News Hour\/Marist<\/em> poll, it makes the outrageous claim that 81 percent of registered American voters support legalization for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA<\/a>) recipients, therefore Congress should listen and a new version of the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act (DREAM Act<\/a>).<\/p>\n The authors believe that, \u201cDACA was and is a commonsense solution to protect the hundreds of thousands of undocumented youths attending school, serving in the military, contributing to our economy and participating in our communities. Now is the time to make these protections permanent.\u201d<\/p>\n Of course, there are some serious problems with that logic:<\/p>\n A PBS News Hour\/Marist<\/em> poll may indeed have shown that some voters support amnesty programs. However, the results would have been drastically different if pollsters asked a question like, \u201cDo you believe it is wise to reward illegal aliens for breaking our immigration laws?\u201d A Rasmussen poll<\/a>, whose questions were phrased very differently than the PBS\/Marist<\/em> survey, recently found that Americans believe programs like DACA encourage illegal immigration.<\/p>\n But all the polls in the world don\u2019t really matter. Voters have made their opinions about the DREAM Act known to their representatives in the Senate and the House of Representatives. In fact, that\u2019s why every attempt<\/em> to pass the DREAM Act has failed. American voters have also spoken in recent elections. And Donald Trump won the presidency because he heard what the American people really want when it comes to immigration. He and Congress should keep listening and ignore the pollsters. \n
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