USANews版 - 61% Favor A State Law That Would Shut Down Repeat Offenders Who Hire Illegal Immigrants |
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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Tuesday, May 31, 2011
The U.S. Supreme Court late last week upheld the legality of an Arizona law
cracking down on employers who hire illegal immigrants, and most voters
support having a similar law in their own state.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 61% of Likely U
.S. Voters favor a law in their state that would shut down companies that
knowingly and repeatedly hire illegal immigrants. Just 21% oppose such a law
, and another 18% are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here
.)
Eighty-two percent (82%) think businesses should be required to use the
federal government’s E-Verify system to determine if a potential employee
is in the country legally. Twelve percent (12%) disagree and oppose such a
requirement.
Sixty-three percent (63%) of voters also feel that landlords should be
required to check and make sure a potential renter is in the country legally
before renting them an apartment. Twenty-eight percent (28%) do not believe
landlords should be required to make such checks.
Separate recent polling shows that two-out-of-three voters (66%) favor
strict government sanctions against employees who hire illegal immigrants,
while 51% support sanctions against those who rent or sell property to those
who are in this country illegally. This is consistent with surveys for
years.
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The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on May 27-28, 2011 by
Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points
with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys
is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
Sixty-seven percent (67%) of voters think a state should have the right to
enforce immigration laws if it believes the federal government is not
enforcing them. Yet while most voters continue to feel the federal
government’s policies encourage illegal immigration, they remain closely
divided over whether it's better to let the federal government or individual
states enforce immigration laws.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce joined with the Obama administration in the
unsuccessful Supreme Court challenge of Arizona’s employer sanctions law.
But then 68% of voters believe that government and big business work
together against the interests of consumers and investors. That view is
shared across partisan, demographic and ideological lines.
Ninety-one percent (91%) of Republicans think businesses should be required
to check that potential employees are here legally, but there is less GOP
support (72%) for a state law that would close companies that knowingly and
repeatedly hire illegal immigrants. Most Democrats and voters not affiliated
with either party support both efforts but not as strongly.
Majorities of all three groups also are in agreement on requiring landlords
to check the immigration status of potential renters, but again Republicans
are the strongest supporters.
Most Political Class voters (65%) believe employers should be required to
check the immigration status of prospective employees, but a plurality (48%)
opposes a law in their state that would shut down companies that knowingly
and repeatedly hire illegal immigrants. Sixty-nine percent (69%) of
Mainstream voters favor such a law in their state.
Seventy-one percent (71%) of those in the Mainstream also support required
landlord checks, but 66% of the Political Class are opposed.
Fifty-nine percent (59%) of all voters favor a cutoff of federal funds to so
-called sanctuary cities, but only 29% think Congress is even somewhat
likely to agree to cut off funds to cities that provide sanctuary for
illegal immigrants.
Voters don’t believe the U.S.-Mexico border is secure and continue to feel
strongly that gaining control of the border is more important than
legalizing the status of undocumented workers living in the United States.
But voters are more pessimistic than ever about the possibility of stopping
illegal immigration for good in the United States. |
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