Suing Arizona Opposed by Large Majority of Readers
FedSmith.com, July 15, 2010 [here]
Immigration has been in the headlines for some time and is not likely to go away anytime soon.
In the wake of action by the Department of Justice to sue the State of Arizona, we asked readers this question:
Do you agree with the administration’s decision to sue over Arizona’s immigration law?
Here are the results:
yes: 11.5%
no: 87.3%
undecided: 1.2%
The survey results are more strongly opposed to the administration’s actions than the results of a similar poll of likely voters on the same issue that was recently released. In that poll, voters by a two-to-one margin were in opposition to the action by the Justice Department to challenge the legality of Arizona’s new immigration law in federal court.
Sixty-one percent (61%) favored passage of a law like Arizona’s in their own state.
About 1,000 readers also sent in their written comments on the issue.
As indicated by the survey results, most of those providing a comment were opposed to the administration’s decision. It is rare to find a topic that finds as much commonality among our readers as this one question does.
While there are movements to boycott Arizona, and some writers have described it as a “pariah state,” more people are embarrassed by our politicians than by the new Arizona law, according to one recent poll.
The most common statements made by readers were that the federal government is not enforcing our borders and that is why Arizona decided to take action on its own.
In fact, we had to search through hundreds of comments to find any that supported the decision. … [more]