But 65 percent of poll respondents said they would be willing to support:
a compromise including a “very long path to citizenship” provided that “the proposal required the aliens to pay fines and learn English” and that the compromise “would truly reduce the number of illegal aliens entering the country.” The proposal, specifically described as a compromise, was said to include “strict employer penalties for hiring illegal aliens, building a barrier along the Mexican border and other steps to significantly reduce the number of illegal aliens entering the United States.”
Well, all those features are included in the bill now pending, the one that's stirred such a ruckus, the one that only 26 percent of Americans support. It seems that most people don't what that bill is really about.
Big Lizards has the story right here.
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We on the left who oppose the immigration bill now pending do not oppose it for the features which match the description of what 65% would support but for other features.
We oppose that the bill would make it harder for immigrants who have become legal to reunite their families. We oppose the large fees and penalties that would make it impossible for the illegal immigrants making minimum wage to become legal. And most importantly we oppose the guest worker features which would continue the practice of having a large group of second-class workers without any power and few rights who can be exploated by employers.
And the right opposes it not for the features listed, but because they oppose any bill before the border is secured.
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