CBS misrepresents support for Arizona immigration bill SB1070
A new poll posted by CBS claims that “support for Arizona Immigration Law Hits 57 Percent.” Look a little closer at the pie chart. While 57% say the Arizona law is “about right”, only 17% say the law doesn’t go far enough. This means those 17% while wanting strong laws also support the law, yet CBS leaves this fact out of their total for the story. Only 23% of those surveyed say the law goes too far, and 3% don’t know. The truly remarkable thing about these numbers are that they come from the usually Democrat sampled CBS poll. I’m sure Katie Couric is crying in the corner somewhere.
Support for the measure increased five points since May. Since then, the Justice Department has filed suit against the law, claiming that it usurps federal authority to enforce immigration laws.
Twenty-three percent of Americans think the law goes too far, according to the poll, conducted July 9 – 12. That’s down five points from the 28 percent who said in May that the measure goes too far. Another 17 percent said it doesn’t go far enough.
About half of Americans – 52 percent — say states should be able to enact laws regarding illegal immigrants, while 42 percent think only the federal government should able to do so.
There is a sharp partisan divide on this question: most Democrats (58 percent) say laws covering illegal immigration should be the responsibility of the federal government only, while Republicans (64 percent) and independents (58 percent) think the states should be allowed to pass such laws.
Half of Americans think illegal immigrants take jobs that Americans don’t want, while fewer – 42 percent — say they take jobs away from Americans
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