{"id":2180,"date":"2007-04-19T14:32:52","date_gmt":"2007-04-19T18:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2007\/04\/immigration_pol\/"},"modified":"2007-04-19T14:32:52","modified_gmt":"2007-04-19T18:32:52","slug":"immigration_pol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2007\/04\/immigration_pol\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigration Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like <a href=\"http:\/\/atrios.blogspot.com\/2007_04_15_atrios_archive.html#117699260969690905\">Atrios<\/a>, I surprised by the margin of <a \"href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/washington\/2007-04-18-illegal-immigrants_N.htm?csp=34\">this poll number<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A USA TODAY\/Gallup Poll taken last weekend found that 78% of respondents feel people now in the country illegally should be given a chance at citizenship.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Given election results in a few border districts last November, I&#8217;m not necessarily surprised that a majority of Americans support a path toward citizenship, but I am surprised at the 78% number.  That&#8217;s strong support.<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;ve only been listening to right-wing radio types the past few years, you would be lead to believe that there&#8217;s a mass political movement afoot to build a 3,000 mile wall and ramp up deportation.  Well, if GOP candidates want to run on American nationalism in 2008, more power to them.  I think there&#8217;s a political reason Karl Rove never went down that path.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not good at reading the public mind, but I suspect this poll question reflects the American realization that:<br \/>\n(1)  We have a lot of illegal immigrants,<br \/>\n(2)  They&#8217;re needed to do jobs most Americans don&#8217;t like,<br \/>\n(3)  We aren&#8217;t going to deport them, so<br \/>\n(4)  We might as well work them into the system rather than force them to live as second-class humans.<br \/>\nAt least that&#8217;s my thinking.  It&#8217;s about time we get past this &#8220;amnesty&#8221; red herring and move forward with a realistic immigration policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2007\/04\/immigration_pol\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Immigration Politics\"><p>Like Atrios, I surprised by the margin of<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2180","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}