Obama’s recent [...]]]> As usual, the public understands that Washington is playing make-believe when its leaders assert the border is “as secure now as it has ever been” as DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano has said repeatedly. The point of defining the border as secure is to get on with a big amnesty for millions of future Democrats.

Obama’s recent comprehensive amnesty speech in El Paso mocked pro-sovereignty citizens by joking about their wanting the border to be a moat with alligators in it. That’s not very funny when the spillover of violent Mexican crime is getting worse, not better. Americans are getting killed out there.

A recent Fox News report noted that the war with the cartels extended 100 miles into America. That doesn’t sound like a secure border.

Only 30% Say U.S.-Mexico Border Secure, 64% Say It’s Not, Rasmussen Reports, May 13, 2011

President Obama on Tuesday encouraged Congress to move forward on immigration reform, saying his administration has “strengthened border security beyond what many believed was possible.” But most voters don’t share the president’s view.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 30% of Likely U.S. Voters think the U.S. border with Mexico is even somewhat secure, while 64% disagree and say it is not secure. These results include only three percent (3%) who say the U.S.-Mexico border is Very Secure and 29% who believe it’s Not At All Secure. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

Fifty-one percent (51%) of Democrats say the border is secure. Eighty-six percent (86%) of Republicans and 65% of voters not affiliated with either of the major parties disagree.

Most voters say securing the border is a higher priority than addressing the status of illegal immigrants already in the United States. Twenty-nine percent (29%) agree with the president that the border is now secure enough to begin dealing with the issue of illegal immigrants already living here. But 50% say the border is not secure enough yet. Another 22% are not sure.

Most voters continue to feel that the policies of the federal government encourage illegal immigration.

While voters remain unhappy with the federal government’s efforts to stop or reduce illegal immigration, most voters continue to favor a welcoming policy of legal immigration. [. . .]

Even voters in the president’s own party are evenly divided when asked if the border is now secure enough to allow the immigration debate to focus on the illegal immigrants already in the country. Sixty-five percent (65%) of Republicans and the plurality (48%) of unaffiliated voters say the border is not yet that secure.

Fifty-nine percent (59%) of voters favor a cutoff of federal funds to so-called sanctuary cities, but only 29% think Congress is even somewhat likely to pass such a measure.

Fifty-three percent (53%) of voters say the U.S. military should be used along the border with Mexico to prevent illegal immigration. That’s down 14 points from 67% last May. Twenty-nine percent (29%) now oppose the use of the military, while 18% are undecided.

Seventy-eight percent (78%) of voters say they have followed news reports about the issue of illegal immigration at least somewhat closely, with 41% who have followed Very Closely.

Most Political Class voters believes the border with Mexico is secure, while 76% of those in the Mainstream disagree.

Sixty-one percent (61%) of American Adults say if immigration laws were enforced, there would be less poverty here.

Most voters continue to favor strong sanctions on employers who hire illegal immigrants and landlords who rent to them. Voters also feel strongly that police should check the immigration status of drivers during routine traffic stops.

Muslims [...]]]> Years of worsening violence, intimidation and general unpleasantness now show up in the pollster’s results, in which a sizable minority see Muslim immigrants as a threat. A recent survey conducted by France’s Le Monde also indicate an increased willingness on the part of Europeans to express doubts about the immigration enterprise now transforming the continent.

Muslims seen as threat in France, Germany, News24, January 4, 2011

Paris – Four in 10 French and German people see Muslims living in their country as a “threat”, according to a poll published on Tuesday by French newspaper Le Monde.

Forty-two percent of French people and 40% of Germans questioned by pollster Ifop said they considered the presence of a Muslim community in their country “a threat” to their national identity, Le Monde said.

The findings of the study “go beyond linking immigration with security or immigration with unemployment, to linking Islam with a threat to identity”, said Jerome Fourquet of Ifop, quoted by Le Monde.

Of the sample of people questioned for the survey in early December, 68% in France and 75% in Germany said they considered Muslims “not well integrated in society”.

Out of these, 61% of French and 67% of Germans blamed this perceived failure on “refusal” by Muslims to integrate.

Eighteen percent of those who said Muslims were not integrated in France and 15% in Germany blamed it on “racism and lack of openness by certain French and German people”.

France has the largest Muslim population in Europe, estimated at about six million, originating largely from its former colonies in North Africa. It has passed a law banning the wearing of the face-covering Muslim veil in public.

Germany received vast numbers of migrant workers, most of them from Muslim Turkey, from the 1960s. German federal authorities estimate its current Muslim population at up to 4.3 million.

He has dug deep with policies that the public dislikes, but he refuses to deviate from his hard-left agenda. One example: his decision to pursue a lawsuit against the consistently popular Arizona law against border anarchy. Another is the budget-buster [...]]]> Obama might well pay attention to the old saying: “When you’re in a hole, stop digging.”

He has dug deep with policies that the public dislikes, but he refuses to deviate from his hard-left agenda. One example: his decision to pursue a lawsuit against the consistently popular Arizona law against border anarchy. Another is the budget-buster socialist healthcare Obama drove to passage, which a majority of voters would like repealed.

The Rasmussen pollsters recently tested the popularity of two top administration lieutenants, Attorney General Eric Holder and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, and both garnered significant disapproval.

Those polled may have had in mind Holder’s continuing effort to have top terrorist Khalid Shaikh Mohammed tried in New York City as well as his lawsuit against Arizona.

Napolitano’s perfidy was exemplified by her April observation of border conditions:

Napolitano: U.S.- Mexico Border ‘As Secure Now As It Has Ever Been’, CNS News, April 29, 2010

“I say this again as someone who has walked that border,” she said. “I’ve ridden that border. I’ve flown it. I’ve driven it. I know that border I think as well as anyone, and I will tell you it is as secure now as it has ever been.”

As a result of such shenanigans, the public does not hold either official in high regard.

Just 32% View Holder, Napolitano Favorably, Rasmussen Reports, June 27, 2010

Next week is likely to be a big one for Attorney General Eric Holder and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano if the Obama administration moves ahead with its threatened legal challenge of Arizona’s popular new immigration law.

Right now, Rasmussen Reports national telephone surveying finds that just 32% of U.S. voters have at least somewhat favorable opinions of the two top Cabinet players. In Holder’s case, this includes 12% with a Very Favorable opinion, while 11% have a Very Favorable view of Napolitano.

Forty-two percent (42%) regard the attorney general unfavorably, with 26% who have a Very Unfavorable opinion. One-in-four voters (26%) still don’t know enough about Holder to venture any kind of opinion of him.

This marks a very slight worsening of the numbers for Holder from last August just after his announcement that the Justice Department was investigating how the Bush administration treated imprisoned terrorists. At that time, 35% held a favorable view of him, and 39% did not.

In Napolitano’s case, 47% now view her unfavorably, including 28% Very Unfavorable. Twenty-one percent (21%) have no opinion of the Homeland Security secretary.

Napolitano’s unfavorables have changed little since last spring following her department’s release of a controversial report on right-wing extremist groups. But her favorables are up slightly from January shortly after a failed terrorist bombing attempt on an airliner landing in Detroit. [...]

Fifty-six percent (56%) of all voters nationwide oppose a Justice Department challenge of the Arizona immigration law. Just 26% think the challenge is a good idea.

Sixty-four percent (64%) believe the federal government by failing to enforce immigration law is more to blame for the current controversy over Arizona’s new statute than state officials are for passing it.

Fifty-eight percent (58%) now favor passage of an immigration law like Arizona’s in their own state.

Ironically, Napolitano was the governor of Arizona at the time President Obama asked her to serve in his Cabinet, and she was replaced by Jan Brewer, then serving as secretary of state. Brewer’s signing and championing of the immigration law has pushed her far ahead in the Arizona’s GOP Primary race for governor. Her likely Democratic opponent, state Attorney General Terry Goddard, is an opponent of the law, which sets up the gubernatorial contest as a potential voter referendum on the measure.

Male voters are more strongly critical than women of both Holder and Napolitano.

Fifty percent (50%) of Democrats hold a favorable opinion of Holder. Sixty-six percent (66%) of Republicans and a plurality (44%) of voters not affiliated with either major party do not.

Similarly, 55% of Democrats view Napolitano favorably, while 78% of Republicans and 47% of unaffiliated voters regard her unfavorably.

The Political Class has strongly favorable views of the two Cabinet members, but most Mainstream voters don’t share their enthusiasm.

While a sizable number of voters don’t know much about Holder and Napolitano, they’re still better known than Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of Health and Human Services, even though they are key players in two of the federal government’s largest concerns – the Gulf oil leak and the new national health care plan.

Despite White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel’s reputation for hardball politics, voters have a slightly higher opinion of him these days than they did at the beginning of the year.

Voters now think another Cabinet member, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, is more qualified to be in the White House than President Obama.

Today’s example notes that just over a third of voters (34%) agree with President Obama, while 56% prefer Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, who met with [...]]]> The polls keep rolling in and mounting up with the same message: Americans want an enforcement approach to solve border anarchy, and reject the craven surrender to Mexico that Obama prefers.

Today’s example notes that just over a third of voters (34%) agree with President Obama, while 56% prefer Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, who met with the President in the White House last Friday. They discussed her state’s new legislation that has caused so much alarm among open-borders types that immigration laws were actually going to be effectively enforced.

The curious headline below refers to an imaginary 2012 Presidential match-up between the two politicians:

Obama 44%, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer 39%, Rasmussen Reports, June 9, 2010

Fifty-six percent (56%) of U.S. voters say their views on illegal immigration are closer to those of Arizona Governor Jan Brewer than to the views of President Obama. The two finally met last Friday at the White House to discuss Arizona’s tough new immigration law which the president opposes.

A new Rasmussen Reports nationwide telephone survey finds that only 34% say their views on illegal immigration are closer to the president’s. Eleven percent (11%) are not sure.

Eighty-one percent (81%) of the Political Class say their views are closer to Obama’s, while 72% of Mainstream voters say they think more like Brewer.

Given a 2012 election contest for president between Obama as the Democratic candidate and Brewer as the Republican, 44% of all voters support the incumbent, while 39% prefer the governor. Nine percent (9%) like some other candidate, while eight percent (8%) more are undecided.

But since 54% of voters don’t know enough about Brewer to venture any kind of opinion of her, this finding is more of a reflection on the president than any possible match-up with Brewer.

Twenty-six percent (26%) of voters have a favorable opinion of Brewer, while 20% view her unfavorably. These figures includes 12% with a Very Favorable opinion and nine percent (9%) with a Very Unfavorable opinion. The question about Brewer did not indicate that she was Governor of Arizona and was asked before the question about a possible match-up with President Obama.

Sixty-four percent (64%) believe the federal government by failing to enforce immigration law is more to blame for the current controversy over Arizona’s new statute than state officials are for passing it. Only 27% blame Arizona officials more for passing the law. [...]

Since signing it in late April, Brewer has strongly championed the law which requires local police to check the immigration status of anyone stopped for a traffic violation or some other kind of violation if the officer suspects the person is an illegal immigrant. Supporters of the law say it’s necessary because the federal government is not enforcing immigration policy and illegal immigrants are an increasing budget and public safety burden on the state.

Since signing the immigration law, Brewer has seen her approval ratings soar in Arizona and her prospects for re-election have improved.

The president and others, including Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard who is the likely Democratic nominee for governor this year, oppose the law, saying it encourages racial profiling. The U.S. Justice Department is considering challenging the Arizona law in court, and a high-level official with the Department of Homeland Security has said the department may not process any illegal immigrants arrested by Arizona police.

Fifty-eight percent (58%) of voters nationwide now favor passage of an immigration law like Arizona’s in their own state. Fifty-six percent (56%) oppose a Justice Department challenge of the state law.

Eighty-six percent (86%) of Republicans and 61% of voters not affiliated with either major party say their views on illegal immigration are closer to the Arizona governor’s. Sixty-four percent (64%) of Democrats say their views are more in line with the president’s.

Two-thirds (67%) of Republicans like Brewer in a match-up with Obama, while 81% of Democrats support the incumbent. Brewer leads Obama by a 43% to 34% margin among unaffiliateds.

Interestingly, among voters who have an opinion of Brewer, there is little difference in the views of Republicans, unaffiliated voters – and Democrats.

But while 86% of GOP voters and 69% of unaffiliateds say the federal government’s failure to enforce immigration law is more to blame for the current controversy, a plurality (48%) of Democrats disagree and say Arizona officials are more to blame.

Seventy-nine percent (79%) of the Political Class point the finger at Arizona officials, while 77% of Mainstream voters see the federal government as more at fault.

Arizona voters support the state’s new immigration law more than ever and are still more inclined to think the law will be good for the state’s economy rather than bad. A lot of voters in the state are thinking it’s payback time, too, to those cities or states that boycott Arizona.

Three-out-of-four voters believe that the federal government is not doing enough to secure the nation’s borders.

Seventy percent (70%) favor strong economic sanctions against those who hire illegal immigrants.

Among voters who are angry about immigration, 83% are angry at the federal government. Only 12% direct their anger at the immigrants themselves.

Most voters continue to say as they have for years that gaining control of the border is more important than legalizing the status of undocumented workers. In fact, 67% now say military troops should be sent to the Mexican border to prevent illegal immigration.

A recent poll shows that aliens using even cutesy babies as [...]]]> Do you get the feeling that Americans are sick and tired of being gamed by parasitic illegal aliens? The jackpot baby scam, where a pregnant illegal alien crosses the border to pop out a citizen meal ticket, is rejected by a substantial majority of voters.

A recent poll shows that aliens using even cutesy babies as a prop is falling on deaf ears:

58% Say No to Citizenship for Children of Illegal Immigrants, Rasmussen Reports, June 3, 2010

Fifty-eight percent (58%) of U.S. voters say a child born to an illegal immigrant in this country should not automatically become a citizen of the United States, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.

Thirty-three percent (33%) disagree and say if a women enters the United States as an illegal alien and gives birth to a child here, that child should automatically be a U.S. citizen. That’s what the current law allows and many believe it would require a Constitutional Amendment to change the law.

Voter sentiments are basically unchanged from four years ago when the Senate was considering the immigration issue. The Senate was eventually forced to drop its plans and surrender to public opinion on the topic.

On another aspect of the debate, voters overwhelmingly oppose allowing illegal immigrants to be eligible for state and federal government benefits. Just nine percent (9%) say illegals should receive such benefits, but 85% say they should not.

Most voters believe that the availability of government money and services draws illegal immigrants to the United States.

Still, there is a huge distinction in the minds of voters between dealing with illegal immigrants and overall immigration policy. Sixty percent (60%) of voters favor a welcoming immigrant policy that excludes only national security threats, criminals and those who would come here to live off our welfare system. Twenty-six percent (26%) disagree with such a policy, and 14% more are not sure.

These sentiments, too, have remained constant for years. The current support for a welcoming policy is similar to that found shortly after passage of the Arizona immigration law that stirred a national controversy. In fact, support for a welcoming policy has changed little over the past four years. [...]

Fifty-two percent (52%) of Democrats think children born to illegal immigrants in this country should automatically become U.S. citizens. Seventy-six percent (76%) of Republicans and 60% of voters not affiliated with either major party disagree.

Most Americans don’t believe Mexico wants to stop the illegal flow of its citizens into this country and think America’s southern neighbor should be asked to compensate U.S. taxpayers for costs incurred by illegal immigration.

Even as legislators in Washington once again are talking about immigration reform, voters across the nation remain skeptical about the federal government’s role in the immigration debate. Three-out-of-four voters believe that the federal government is not doing enough to secure the nation’s borders. Fifty-six percent (56%) believe the policies of the federal government actually encourage illegal immigration.

Among voters who are angry about immigration, 83% are angry at the federal government.  Only 12% direct their anger at the immigrants.

Most voters continue to say as they have for years that gaining control of the border is more important than legalizing the status of undocumented workers. In fact, 67% now say military troops should be sent to the Mexican border to prevent illegal immigration.

Arizona officials say their recent adoption of a tough immigration enforcement law is due to the federal government’s failure to enforce federal immigration policy. While President Obama, Mexican President Felipe Calderon and others have complained that the state’s law could lead to racial profiling, 58% of voters nationwide favor passage of a law like Arizona’s in their own state.

Boston and Los Angeles were among the first to announce boycotts of Arizona, but 68% of Americans say it’s a bad idea for other cities or states to boycott Arizona over its new immigration law.

Below, a jackpot baby brigade at a May Day amnesty parade.

The take-away message is this: more than two-thirds of those polled don’t believe Mexico is an honest player that respects America’s right to borders and sovereignty. This opinion sampling [...]]]> The Rasmussen pollsters have published a new survey just in time for the big shindig at the White House welcoming Presidente Felipe Calderon and his amnesty roadshow.

The take-away message is this: more than two-thirds of those polled don’t believe Mexico is an honest player that respects America’s right to borders and sovereignty. This opinion sampling follows a series of polls from Rasmussen and other mainstream polling organizations showing universal support for Arizona’s increased immigration enforcement, even after a flood of lies that the new law would unleash random mass arrests.

One can assume from this result that Americans have had it with the bad faith of our neighbor; one indication being that only 13 percent think that Mexico wants to end illegal immigration.

And what’s going on with the President’s odd passivity about this issue? If he wants a mass amnesty to assure a future of big-government-loving hispanic Democrats, it is to his benefit to send troops to the border and shut it down tight to get the big enchilada amnesty later. But he acts like there’s nothing he can do. Arizona Senators McCain and Kyl recently sent a letter to Obama urging troops be deployed, following an April 19 press conference that also went unanswered by the White House.

Unless you include Obama’s bashing of Arizona along with Presidente Calderon with the same tired lies that effective immigration enforcement requires racial profiling: that’s his answer. Obama’s strategy is to rile up his far left base by blaming Arizona for taking responsibility for a duty of the federal government. He could fix it but he won’t. In fact, Obama wants the budget for border control cut.

67% Say Mexico Does Not Want To Stop Illegal Immigration, Rasmussen Reports, May 19, 2010

Most Americans don’t believe Mexico wants to stop the illegal flow of its citizens into this country and think America’s southern neighbor should be asked to compensate U.S. taxpayers for costs incurred by illegal immigration.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 13% of Adults think Mexico wants to stop illegal immigration. Sixty-seven percent (67%) say Mexico does not want to stop its citizens from entering the United States illegally. Another 20% are not sure.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon in his meeting today with President Obama complained that Arizona’s new immigration law encourages discrimination. But Arizona officials say the new law is needed in part because illegal immigration is causing big public safety and financial problems for the state.

Fifty-eight percent (58%) of Americans think Mexico should be asked to compensate U.S. taxpayers to offset such costs. Twenty-four percent (24%) disagree and say Mexico should not be asked for compensation. Seventeen percent (17%) are not sure.

As the United States wrestles with a future of historic-level deficits, 67% of voters nationwide say illegal immigrants are a significant strain on the U.S. budget.

Most voters (55%) now favor passage of an immigration law like Arizona’s in their own state. When asked specifically about the chief provision of the Arizona law, support is even higher. Sixty-nine percent (69%) believe a police officer should be required to check the immigration status of anyone stopped for a traffic violation or violation of some other law if he suspects the person might be an illegal immigrant. [...]

According to news reporters, the Mexican Embassy in Washington, D.C. is preparing friend-of-the court briefs to support lawsuits challenging Arizona’s new law. Only 12% of Americans believe it is appropriate for a foreign country to help challenge U.S. laws in U.S. courts. Seventy-two percent (72%) say it is not appropriate, and again 17% are undecided.

Twenty-seven percent (27%) view Mexico as an ally of the United States, while 14% describe it as an enemy. Fifty-three percent (53%) view Mexico as somewhere in between the two. These findings are consistent with a survey last August but are up from earlier last year when the Mexican government was seeking restrictions on U.S. gun sales it argued were linked to growing drug-related violence.

The majority of Republicans, Democrats and adults not affiliated with either party feel that the Mexican government does not want to stop illegal immigration and that Mexico should be asked to compensate U.S.taxpayers for costs associated with illegal immigration. But Republicans and unaffiliateds believe both things much more strongly than Democrats.

Members of the president’s party are also more inclined to view Mexico as an ally than are Republicans and unaffiliated adults.

Most voters continue to say as they have for years that gaining control of the border is more important than legalizing the status of undocumented workers. But most also favor a welcoming immigration policy that excludes only “national security threats, criminals and those who would come here to live off our welfare system.”

The Obama administration announced in March that it was halting funding of the fence along the U.S.-Mexico border, but 59% of Americans believe the United States should continue to build that fence.

According to the Rasmussen pollsters, a stunning 70 percent of those polled reject taxpayer-funded goodies for illegal aliens, while only 41 percent support Arizona’s enforcement law.

(Of course, many rank-and-file Democrats dislike immigration anarchy as much as anyone, unlike the D-elites, [...]]]> Interesting poll results from the uber-blue state of Massachusetts — they are nuanced, shall we say.

According to the Rasmussen pollsters, a stunning 70 percent of those polled reject taxpayer-funded goodies for illegal aliens, while only 41 percent support Arizona’s enforcement law.

(Of course, many rank-and-file Democrats dislike immigration anarchy as much as anyone, unlike the D-elites, although at lower levels than Republicans and independents.)

70% in Massachusetts Favor Ban on Public Benefits For Illegal Immigrants, Rasmussen Reports, May 12, 2010

Seventy percent (70%) of Massachusetts voters favor a proposal recently rejected by the state legislature that would stop illegal immigrants from receiving public benefits.

A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey shows that just 17% oppose the proposal to prevent illegal immigrants from gaining access to public housing, unemployment benefits, welfare or workers compensation. Thirteen percent (13%) more are not sure.

The proposal failed to pass in the Democratically-controlled State House last month by a 75 to 82 vote.

Fifty percent (50%) of voters in Massachusetts oppose a boycott of Arizona like the one just passed by Boston City Council to protest that state’s new law cracking down on illegal immigration. Thirty-four percent (34%) favor such a boycott, while another 16% are undecided.

But just 41% favor a law like Arizona’s that empowers local police to stop anyone they suspect of being an illegal immigrant. Forty-eight percent (48%) oppose such a law. Eleven percent (11%) are not sure.

Nationally, 58% support a law like the one recently adopted in Arizona.

The survey of 500 Likely Voters in Massachusetts was conducted on May 10, 2010 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 4.5 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 Bay State voters are at least somewhat concerned that a law like Arizona’s might violate the civil rights of some U.S. citizens while 30% don’t share that concern. Those figures include 40% who are Very Concerned and 11% who are Not At All Concerned.

Fifty-eight percent (58%) favor a welcoming immigration policy that only excludes “national security threats, criminals and those who would come here to live off our welfare system.” Just 23% disagree with such a policy. This is comparable to findings among voters nationwide.

Governor Deval Patrick yesterday criticized the public benefits proposal and denounced the Arizona bill, saying he would veto a similar law if passed by the state legislature. However, he also said the state would not follow Boston’s example and divest state funds from Arizona as a protest.

His two chief opponents for governor, Republican Charlie Banker and Democrat-turned-independent Tim Cahill, both favor the legislation barring illegal immigrants from public benefits. Cahill has defended the Arizona law; Baker has not commented in detail on it.

Patrick now earns 45% of the vote in his bid for reelection to Baker’s 31% and Cahill’s 14%.

Republicans and voters not affiliated with either party overwhelmingly support the proposal that would stop illegal immigrants from getting public benefits, as do 53% of Democrats.

But 52% of Democratic voters favor a boycott of Arizona, while 74% of Republicans and 66% of unaffiliateds oppose it.

When it comes to having a law like Arizona’s, however, 64% of GOP voters are in favor of it, but 68%of Democrats are opposed. Among unaffiliated voters in Massachusetts, 46% favor such a law, while 39% oppose it.