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Article: No left turn.(Americans want illegal immigration to stop)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- May 8, 2006
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THE latest line from the open-borders lobby is that the American public is now with them. Don't believe it. The latest Gallup poll, from early April, has 47 percent of the public thinking that immigration should be decreased, compared with 35 percent who want it left as is and only 15 percent who want it increased. President Bush, John McCain, the Chamber of Commerce, and much of the rest of the great and good are siding with that 15 percent--and, all too often, condemning the great majority of the American public as "yahoos."
It is true that some poll questions, read in isolation, appear to support the president. The same Gallup poll asked if illegal aliens ...