Pollsters find support for immigrants

I came across this story after posting this week’s Dispatches, so the numbers do not figure in the piece. But they also don’t surprise me.

While immigrants are scapegoated by vocal xenophonbes — no one is fooled by their professed support for “legal” immigrants; if the issue of illegaility were removed, they’d find some other reason to hate — the reality is that most Americans are ready to accept that the people who do the dirty work deserve a chance at improvement.

A recent survey by Benson Strategy Group–a group who conducts polling for President Obama and Fortune 100 Companies–found that 71% of likely voters think undocumented immigrants should take steps to become legal taxpayers. Similarly, Celinda Lake of Lake Research Partners said recent polling data suggests that voters want undocumented immigrants out of the shadows and on the books

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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie. View all posts by hankkalet