CNN Poll Reveals 66% of Americans Don't Want to Make it Easier for Illegal Aliens to Gain Citizenship

A very interesting post from www.NumbersUSA.com about the current mood of Americans on immigration This follows this post about the Tea Parties later this week and this post which shows that there are 30,000 openly illegal immigrants in the border town of El Paso across from the recent Juarez shooting. For more interesting stories like this click here to follow this blog.

CNN Poll Reveals 66% of Americans Don't Want to Make it Easier for Illegal Aliens to Gain Citizenship
posted on NumbersUSA
A new CNN poll reveals that 66% of Americans don't want the federal government to make it easier for illegal aliens to earn a citizenship. Only 33% say that the United States should make it easier for illegal aliens to earn citizenship. the majority of both Democrats and Republicans say they oppose making citizenship easier.
"Virtually all major subgroups oppose making it easier for illegal immigrants to become citizens, at least in the abstract," says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. "Specific legislation that puts limits on the ability to gain citizenship has sometimes met with favor in the past if it restricts the number who can apply and penalizes them for staying in the country illegally. But the overall principle remains unpopular."
Fifty-two percent of Americans, however, say they are at least somewhat sympathetic for illegal aliens and their families. But that number is down from 57% when the same question was asked in May 2006 and from 70% in April 2006.
For more information, see CNN's website.