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Published: May 16, 2008 at 9:16 PM
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Feature: U.S. cites attacks despite truce
Published: May 16, 2008 at 2:34 PM
By RICHARD TOMKINS
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Dogs of War: Blackwater, Najaf -- Take Two
Published: May 16, 2008 at 10:28 AM
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Analysis: Indian agencies start blame game
Published: May 15, 2008 at 8:36 PM
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Published: May 15, 2008 at 7:20 PM
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Analysis: U.S. wants tough immigration law
Published: Sept. 17, 2007 at 10:55 AM
By SHAUN WATERMAN
UPI Homeland and National Security Editor
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- Two-thirds of Americans support more restrictive immigration polices and more than a third believe they would benefit the U.S. economy. Nevertheless, most have more confidence in the Democratic Party than the GOP to deal with immigration, according to the latest UPI/Zogby poll.
Both President Bush and Congress -- where Bush’s drive for immigration reform stalled last year -- got very low approval ratings for their handling of the issue from the respondents.
Former New York City GOP Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and former Republican Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson were neck-and-neck as the presidential candidate “most capable of solving America’s immigration issues.”
Thompson was rated that way by 14 percent of the 7,102 adults who responded, Giuliani by 15 -- a difference within the poll’s 1.2 percent margin of error. The third rated candidate was Sen. Hilary Clinton, D-N.Y., with 11 percent.
But, not unexpectedly given that the election is still more than a year away, the largest group of respondents was the 22 percent who were not sure which of the 16 named candidates would be most capable.
Immigration and border security was far and away “the number one issue facing the United States in terms of domestic security,” the poll results show. Fifty percent of all respondents chose it above port security, at 20 percent, transit security, 10 percent. Aviation security, the final choice, was picked by just 4 percent.
The perception of immigration and the border as the key domestic security issue was particularly notable among Republicans, of whom 75 percent picked it, and independents, 55 percent.
But for Democrats, port security was the choice of the largest number -- 33 percent, over just 23 percent who picked the border and immigration.
This bears out other data showing that Republicans and Independents tend to rate immigration issues more important than Democrats.
An L.A. Times/Bloomberg poll last week asked voters in the early primary states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina to pick which of eight issues should be “the top priority for candidates running for president to address this election.”
Among likely GOP voters in the three states, between 23 and 30 percent listed illegal immigration, whereas only between five and nine percent of Democrats listed it. Overall it was a priority for 19 percent of voters in Iowa, 14 percent in New Hampshire and 16 in South Carolina -- closer to the GOP numbers than to the Democrats’.
The support for more restrictive immigration policies was also more pronounced among Republicans and independents, the UPI/Zogby poll found. GOP supporters favored more restrictions over more open policies 89 percent to seven; Independents by 70 percent to 21. Overall, restrictions were favored 65 to 25.
But among Democrats, a small plurality favored more open policies over more restrictive ones, 46 to 39 percent.
Respondents narrowly favored the Democratic Party when asked which they had more confidence in to deal with immigration, 32 to 29 percent who favored the GOP.
Among independents, the gap was even narrower than that, a statistically insignificant 21 percent for Democrats to 20 for Republicans. By far the majority of independents, 57 percent, and more than a third of respondents overall said neither.
The Democrats inched ahead because though 24 percent of their own supporters had no confidence in either party on the issue, that was still better than the abstention rates for GOP supporters, where almost a third, 32 percent, said neither party had their confidence.
More than a third of respondents, 37 percent, believed more restrictions on immigration would benefit the U.S. economy -- a conviction at odds with the conclusions of most experts who agree with 30 percent of the respondents that the economy would suffer.
The belief that restrictions would be beneficial was especially pronounced among African-Americans (41 percent), independents (40 percent) and Republicans (48 percent), and less prevalent among Hispanics (28 percent) and Democrats (23 percent).
UPI Homeland and National Security Editor
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- Two-thirds of Americans support more restrictive immigration polices and more than a third believe they would benefit the U.S. economy. Nevertheless, most have more confidence in the Democratic Party than the GOP to deal with immigration, according to the latest UPI/Zogby poll.
Both President Bush and Congress -- where Bush’s drive for immigration reform stalled last year -- got very low approval ratings for their handling of the issue from the respondents.
Former New York City GOP Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and former Republican Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson were neck-and-neck as the presidential candidate “most capable of solving America’s immigration issues.”
Thompson was rated that way by 14 percent of the 7,102 adults who responded, Giuliani by 15 -- a difference within the poll’s 1.2 percent margin of error. The third rated candidate was Sen. Hilary Clinton, D-N.Y., with 11 percent.
But, not unexpectedly given that the election is still more than a year away, the largest group of respondents was the 22 percent who were not sure which of the 16 named candidates would be most capable.
Immigration and border security was far and away “the number one issue facing the United States in terms of domestic security,” the poll results show. Fifty percent of all respondents chose it above port security, at 20 percent, transit security, 10 percent. Aviation security, the final choice, was picked by just 4 percent.
The perception of immigration and the border as the key domestic security issue was particularly notable among Republicans, of whom 75 percent picked it, and independents, 55 percent.
But for Democrats, port security was the choice of the largest number -- 33 percent, over just 23 percent who picked the border and immigration.
This bears out other data showing that Republicans and Independents tend to rate immigration issues more important than Democrats.
An L.A. Times/Bloomberg poll last week asked voters in the early primary states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina to pick which of eight issues should be “the top priority for candidates running for president to address this election.”
Among likely GOP voters in the three states, between 23 and 30 percent listed illegal immigration, whereas only between five and nine percent of Democrats listed it. Overall it was a priority for 19 percent of voters in Iowa, 14 percent in New Hampshire and 16 in South Carolina -- closer to the GOP numbers than to the Democrats’.
The support for more restrictive immigration policies was also more pronounced among Republicans and independents, the UPI/Zogby poll found. GOP supporters favored more restrictions over more open policies 89 percent to seven; Independents by 70 percent to 21. Overall, restrictions were favored 65 to 25.
But among Democrats, a small plurality favored more open policies over more restrictive ones, 46 to 39 percent.
Respondents narrowly favored the Democratic Party when asked which they had more confidence in to deal with immigration, 32 to 29 percent who favored the GOP.
Among independents, the gap was even narrower than that, a statistically insignificant 21 percent for Democrats to 20 for Republicans. By far the majority of independents, 57 percent, and more than a third of respondents overall said neither.
The Democrats inched ahead because though 24 percent of their own supporters had no confidence in either party on the issue, that was still better than the abstention rates for GOP supporters, where almost a third, 32 percent, said neither party had their confidence.
More than a third of respondents, 37 percent, believed more restrictions on immigration would benefit the U.S. economy -- a conviction at odds with the conclusions of most experts who agree with 30 percent of the respondents that the economy would suffer.
The belief that restrictions would be beneficial was especially pronounced among African-Americans (41 percent), independents (40 percent) and Republicans (48 percent), and less prevalent among Hispanics (28 percent) and Democrats (23 percent).
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