Michelle Malkin: Floridians Don't Like Bush's Guestworker Program

[This little nugget is from Malkin's blog...Bush' stance on illegal immigration is ridiculous...we're supposed to be fighting a "War on Terror" and yet we continue to have jarringly little control over our own borders while National Guardsmen are deployed en masse in Iraq. Recently heads of a number of intelligence organizations spoke about the possibilty of terrorists paying people to sneak them across the Southwestern border...why have I known about this for months and months? Why are these people only now talking about this? The cynical among us would suggest that we had to wait until the November elections were over before we mentioned the idea that our Mexican border situation was extremely troubling. - jtf]

March 09, 2005 07:50 AM
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A poll sponsored by the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and Florida Times-Union found strong opposition in Florida to President Bush's guestworker/amnesty proposal:

Two-thirds of likely voters in Florida would oppose a plan to allow some undocumented immigrants to live and work legally in the United States, according to a new poll conducted for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and Florida Times-Union.

That puts them at odds with President Bush, who has advocated a guest-worker program that would allow at least some undocumented immigrants the right to live and work legally in the United States.

The survey also found that likely voters oppose, by a more than 50-point margin, allowing states to issue driver's licenses to illegal immigrants.

Last week, a Field Poll found that Californians also oppose (62% to 35%) giving driver's licenses to illegal aliens.

At least Bush's Open Borders policies will help Republicans pick up crucial Hispanic votes, right? Apparently not in Florida:

In the Sun-Sentinel poll, Hispanics, who made up 15 percent of the respondents, were no more supportive of pro-immigration changes than other groups polled. Only two in 10 Hispanics favored a law allowing undocumented immigrants to work legally in the country. Only two in 10 favored issuing driver's licenses to undocumented immigrants. And only 38 percent of Florida's Hispanics who are likely voters said they thought immigration helped the United States.