UT/TT Poll: Economy, Immigration Top Voter Concerns
[Editor's note: This is the last of five stories about the University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll. Monday, we looked at Texas voters and the 2012 presidential contest. Tuesday, how voters rate Rick Perry's job performance. Wednesday, the races for U.S. Senate and lieutenant governor. Thursday, whether Texans think their friends would vote for a Mormon president.]
Texas voters think the economy is the biggest problem facing the country but immigration is the most pressing issue facing the state, according to the new University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll.
That coincides with the rise of Gov. Rick ...
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voteforamerica
LATINOS FOR HONEST GOVERNMENT
Juan Reynoso's Blog - TeaParty.org
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Nobember 4th, 2011
We demand the impeachment of Obama, Eric Holder and Janet Napolitano
Fellow Texans, we must demand the impeachment of, Obama, Eric Holder, Janet Napolitano and the members of the US Supreme Court; they all betray the American people. We the people will not tolerate any more the trashing of our Constitution, the usurpation of the States rights and this complete disregard for our laws. Fellow Americans, This is the time to let Washington hear our voice.
Call your representatives, send e-mail, send faxes and ask for the impeach, removal and prosecution of Obama Eric Holder and Janet Napolitano.
Please pass this to all you know, and ask them to take action; we must stop Washington culture of corruption and demand the security of our borders and the enforcement of our immigration laws.
Click here to contact your Representative. http://www.thepeopledecide.us/
Sample letter:
Dear Senator ............................. this is to ask you, to take action and demand the impeachment of President Obama, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of Home Land Security Janet Napolitano and the judges that prosecute and jailed the border patrol agents for doing their jobs in compliance with their sworn Constitution duties,( Defend and protect our borders from drug traffickers and foreign invaders).
Senator refusing to enforce the laws of this United States, and at will refusing to secure our borders in violation of National security, is a violation of their oath and their Constitutional duties.
These officials fail to protect the citizens of this united states, they conspire and betray the American people, they negate their sworn constitutional responsibility, to protect the people of this United States from foreign criminal invaders and sue the States of this union to stop them to protect their citizens, from criminals illegal aliens.
Senator, the following are the acts of treason, that the people of this United State are accusing these corrupt government official of being responsible for, in the planning and executions to betray the people of this United States:
1- Refusing to secure our borders and enforce our immigration laws. Promoted the invasion of Mexicans illegal aliens and given sanctuary to illegal aliens. Force the States to pay for the education, social service and welfare of illegal aliens.
2- Aid and abetted criminals drug traffickers in the transportation of drug into the territory of the United States by prosecuting and sentence Border Patrol agents for doing their job and defend them self on the line of duty.
3- Engage on the sales and transportation of thousands of weapons to known drug cartels, that resulted in the killing of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and the killings of thousands of Mexicans including woman and children.(Fast and Furious)
4- Allowing the CIA and The FBI to work with and made deals with the Mexican drug cartels to pass and distribute their drugs in the United States, in exchange for information on other drug cartels members.
Senator, these government officials betray the American people; at will in violation of their constitutional duties, they commit crimes against the people of the United States and are responsible for the killing of an American Border Patrol Agent and the wounded of another patrolman in Texas, also the killings of thousands of Mexicans, womans and childs.
Senator, In this United States not one is above the law and they should pay for their crime. We ask you to ask for the impeachment of Obama, Eric Holder, Janet Napolitano and the traitor of the Supreme court. We are committed to eradicate the Washington culture of corruption, I hope you are with us on this mission; as many of your colleagues do.
God bless you and give you the wisdom to stand for our country and comply with your Constitutional duty.
sign your name
Karen Spivey-Cummings via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I agree. We need to pass the Dream Act and common sense comprehensive immigration reform Now.
David Spratt
It illustrates the lack of voter sophistication when they can rank Immigration , jobs, border security , education as different issues . They think jobs are number one and immigration is number two , when in most respects they are one in the same. Anytime the government puts forth a number you can bet it is skewed one way or another. official unemployment is listed at 9%. This is low , on purpose. Illegals in the country are listed at around 12 million, also low. Jobs created by the stimulus 1 over a million. This is high.
Anyone who cannot see a direct correlation between employment and the numbers of Illegals in the country has not thought about the issue much. The government points to the fact fewer Illegals are coming and more have been deported. This actually means very little. if one looks at the numbers deported and the estimated numbers still moving freely across the border , they are roughly equal. This means no progress or advances are being made. The fact is many illegals that have been here for many years and have saved assets are returning to their countries because of reduced opportunities here. less people are crossing because of reduced employment opportunities.
But the basic dynamics of having Illegals in the country have not changed much. The population is fairly static now. Is this positive? Depends on how you look at it. It really does nothing for unemployed Americans in the labor pool. labor supply exceeds demand and probably will for several years to come. This also means there will be no increase in average wages for several years AFTER the balance between labor supply and demand is reached.
Amnesty or passage of a dream act will do nothing to alleviate unemployment or create more jobs. For all the rhetoric that passage of a dream act will allow illegal students the opportunity to participate in the job market and contribute to the economy , this makes no sense when one thinks about it. It changes nothing in regards to other aspects of the economic situation and only makes them quasi legal unemployed immigrants. What jobs would they take? There are far more people than jobs now, and most of them either work or are looking for jobs anyway. Jobs and Immigration are linked together and are not separate issues. Over 1 million people per year are still coming into the country and entering a job market saturated with job seekers.
While Jobs and Illegal Immigration dominate the conversation as two separate issues , more attention should be devoted to the discussion of Immigration overall , legal and illegal, and the effect it has on jobs and the economy. Emotion should be removed from the debate and it should be viewed form a practical point of view. From this standpoint I agree our Immigration system is broken and needs to be fixed. Immigration should be tied to the needs of the country for additional labor and restricted to those areas that actually need people skilled in those areas.
At the end of the day when talking about immigration to this country it all boils down to the issue of economic impact. Humanitarian issues , emotional debate over compassion for less fortunate people elsewhere in the world obscures the real reason for immigration laws and their purpose in limiting the number of people admitted into the country.
David Spratt
Help pass Immigration reform now. Reduce legal immigration by 3/4 and enforce all immigration laws.
http://www.ojjpac.org/illegal%20alien%20crime.asp
View the pictures and stories of Thousands of victims of Illegal criminals most of them murdered. 10,000 Americans per year lose their lives to illegal aliens. How many would be alive today if we enforced our laws? Tell their families they should support Amnesty for Illegals !!!
I already know the main response : Well , Americans commit crimes also.
True. But the fact is if they were not allowed to be here in the first place they would not have had the opportunity to murder or injure an American to begin with. We are all at the mercy of criminals of any stripe , but it adds insult to injury to know a family member or a friend was murdered by an individual that had no right to be in the country to begin with and should have been removed immediately upon being found out or better yet not been able to enter in the first place.
http://www.numbersusa.org/
bastian avser
WHITES AREN’T WELCOME IN AMERICA ANY LONGER !!! WE DON'T NEED YOU ANY MORE !!! OUT OF AMERICA WITH WHITES NOW !!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xGfYOAydjw
OR
http://www.youtube.com/user/BostjanAvsec <== OBAMA'S HEALTH CARE RECORDED LIVE IN 2009 !!! These are hard facts about lunatic Obama/Bush's twilight zone administrations(HORROR) or genocide against whites per ZIONIST Washington DC and communist Moscow(Belgrade) !!!
EXILING WHITES WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE AND IMPORTING NON WHITES IMMIGRATION REQUIREMENTS ENTIRELY FREE(why to worry about broken fence on Mexican border when millions are entering via airports with jobs prearranged even prior to their arrival to US or Europe not to mention above news !!).
NOT ANTI WALL-STREET(protests), BUT ANTI WHITES INSTEAD !!! http://multiculturalismisterrorism.blogspot.com
AND
GREEK CRISES(we are all Greece...find out who wants to burn not only what is Greece, but is burning our countries for over 66 years now).