Majority Of Americans Favor Crackdown on ILLEGAL Immigration

Due to my education, I have a pretty hefty amount of training in mathematics, statistics and even in design of experiments - a subject that also covers polls and questionnaires. This is one of the reasons I am so disgusted with politicians misusing polls to craft policy. Many polling questions today are poorly written, overly broad and fall too easily into the practice of ‘push-polling’. Don’t even get me started on skewed samples.

Accordingly, I tend not to pay attention to the polls themselves but rather to trends in a spectrum of polls. While not perfect, it at least keeps me from having to replace monitors. So the reports that a whole bunch of polls show a solid majority favor a crackdown on ILLEGAL immigration is worthy of note. (Note I am stressing illegal. Too many advocates immediately try to paint any call for reform as "anti-immigrant". There is a tremendous difference between legal and illegal immigration. One is not a racist or a xenophobe for calling for control of an illegal activity.)

Which brings me to the point in this post. After days of gushing about the demonstrations, painting them in the most favorable light and actively downplaying the huge numbers of Mexican flags the demonstrators carried, the MSM has been forced to acknowledge that Americans are not happy about all this. But they can’t help themselves, they still have to try to get the message across that if you’re against ILLEGAL immigration there is something wrong with you.To wit:

"The reasons for Americans’ growing concerns are varied, experts said, but they are driven in part by growing fears of terrorism and a diminishing tolerance for things foreign".

Nowhere in the article are either of those assertions backed up by a quote from a real, live expert. Nowhere. Just the reporters insinuation that you’re a cowardly xenophobe if you don’t like hundreds of thousands of criminals demanding political rights. Make no mistake, people who are in this country illegally are already criminals. The House bill doesn’t turn them into criminals. Their own actions in coming across the borders illegally made them criminals.

As I have stated before, the demonstrations will backfire on a mammoth scale.