Immigration is Fascism

Opinion polls consistently show a majority of the public against immigration, legal or illegal:

[56%] Fifty-six percent of Americans polled say illegal immigration is doing more to hurt than help the United States. TNS / Washington Post / ABC News via Angus Reid Global Scan, December 15-18, 2005

[84%] Eighty-four percent of Texans surveyed consider illegal immigration a serious problem. Scripps Howard Texas poll, December 11, 2005

[56%] Fifty-six percent of Americans polled say Congress should be developing a plan for stopping the flow of illegal immigrants into the U.S. and for deporting those already here. CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll, Dec. 9-11, 2005

[75%] Seventy-five percent of voters believe immigration is very or somewhat important in an election. Angus Reid Global Scan, November 13, 2005

[81%] Eighty-one percent of Republicans say that the immigration issue is somewhat or very important. That view is shared by sixty-nine percent of Democrats and seventy-five percent of Independents. Rasmussen Reports, November 7, 2005

[56%] Fifty-six percent of Republicans and fifty-one percent of Independents support proposals to end birthright citizenship (automatic granting of citizenship to the U.S.-born children of illegal aliens). Overall, 49% of those polled support such a policy. Rasmussen Reports, November 7, 2005

[75%] Seventy-five percent of adults polled say the U.S. is not doing enough along its borders to keep illegal immigrants from crossing into this country. CBS News Poll, Oct. 3-5, 2005

[90%] Ninety percent of North Carolinians polled believe North Carolina has an illegal immigration problem. John William Pope Civitas Institute poll, September 2005

[81%] 81 percent of Californians polled said they are concerned about illegal immigration. Of those, 49% are “extremely concerned.” Field Poll, September, 2005

[45%] Forty-five percent of the total U.S. Hispanic population says immigrants strengthen the U.S. Pew Hispanic Center poll, August 2005

[44%] Forty-four percent of the total U.S. Hispanic population says immigrants are a burden on the U.S. Pew Hispanic Center poll, August 2005

[70%] Seventy percent of Americans polled say the United States should not make it easier for illegal immigrants to become U.S. citizens. Gallup Poll, June 6-25, 2005

[91%] 91 percent of those polled believe that illegal immigration is a serious problem. Opinion Dynamics Poll for Fox News, April 25-26, 2005

[55%] 55 percent of Florida voters polled believe that immigration harms the United States. Research 2000 Florida Poll, March, 2005

[63%] Sixty-three percent of voters overwhelmingly believe the immigration system is broken and needs to be fixed. AILA Comprehensive Immigration Reform Public Opinion Poll, March 20-22, 2005

[66%] Sixty-six percent of voters say they want a controlled system that would replace an illegal immigration flow with a legal immigration flow. AILA Comprehensive Immigration Reform Public Opinion Poll, March 20-22, 2005

[52%] Fifty-two percent of Americans want the level of immigration reduced. Only seven percent want to see it increased. Gallup Poll, January 3-5, 2005

[80%] Eighty percent of Carolinians said it should be harder for people to immigrate to the United States. 2003 Carolinas Poll, August 2004

[85%] Eighty-five percent of Americans believe that "large number of immigrants entering the U.S." is an important threat to the vital interest of the United States in the next 10 years. Of those, 50 percent believe it is a "crticial threat." Gallup Poll, February 2-12, 2004

[84%] Eighty-four percent of Americans worry about illegal immigration. Of those, thirty-seven percent worry a "great deal" about it. Gallup Poll, March 8-11, 2004

[64%] Sixty-four percent of Americans believe the U.S. has too much immigration. Andres McKenna Research for the National Journal, January 1-25, 2004

[75%] Three-fourths of North Carolinians think the United States admits too many legal immigrants. Raleigh News and Observer, November 2003

[84%] Eighty-four percent of those who voted in the California recall election believe that stopping illegal immigration is important. Of those, 40 percent said stopping illegal immigration is extremely important. 64 percent of those who voted in the recall believe that illegal immigration has had a negative impact on California. Luntz Poll, October 2003

[80%] Nearly eighty percent of Carolinians believe it's too easy to immigrate to the United States. 2003 Carolinas Poll, August 2003

[76%] Seventy-six percent of those polled prefer legal immigration less than current levels of almost one million a year. 58 percentof those polled prefer legal immigration levels of less than 300,000 a year. 86 percent of those polled believe illegal immigration is a serious problem. RoperASW Poll, March 2003

[65%] Sixty-five percent of Americans feel dissatisfied with the level of immigration into the U.S. Of thouse, 34 percent are very dissatisfied. Gallup Poll, January 13-16, 2003

[majority] A majority of South Floridians believe that recent levels of immigration have made South Florida a worse place to live. South Florida Sun-Sentinel\NBC 6, May 2003

[majority] Over half of those polled believe legal immigration numbers should be lowered. Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, WorldViews 2002

[74%] Seventy-four percent of Tennesseans believe the United States is too open to immigrants. Middle Tennessee State University Poll, November 2002

[majority] Over half of Americans believe immigration numbers should be lowered. Zogby Poll, June 2002

[majority] A majority of Texans believe legal immigration numbers are too high. Scripps Howard Poll, March 2002

[majority] A majority of Democrats, Independents, and Republicans believe legal immigration should be lowered. CBS News/New York Times poll, September and December 2001

[49%] Forty-nine percent of American Jews favor lower levels of immigration and 48 percent favor current or higher levels. 2001 Annual Survey of American Jewish Opinion, American Jewish Committee, December 2001

[65%] Sixty-five percent of Americans favor stopping ALL immigration during the war on terrorism. Fox News/Opinion Dynamics Poll, November 2001

[58%] A majority of Americans (58 percent) think immigration levels should be decreased. CNN/GALLUP/USA TODAY poll, October 2001

[55%] 55 percent of Californians believe immigration is single biggest cause of California's population growth. Public Policy Institute of California, May 2001

[55%] 55 percent of Americans are "dissatisfied" with current immigration levels. CNN, USA Today, Gallup poll, January 2001

[majority] Majority of Iowans disapprove of Governor's plan to attract more immigrants. Des Moines Register, November 2000

[majority] A survey of more than 1,500 students from 64 high schools in Illinois, Connecticut, Nebraska and Rhode Island found concern that increasing immigration would exacerbate strains in our society to rank among top concerns for high school students. Chicago Tribune, June 2000

[83%] Eighty-three percent of Americans -- when given numerical choices -- choose immigration below the current annual average of 1 million a year. Roper Poll, February 1996

Democracy is rule by the people..

How can there even be immigration when the people clearly don't want it? To quote Dennis Pasquino,

"If we had democracy, they wouldn't even be here."

..and Fascism is rule by a tiny elite

Regular polling over the years has found a deep gulf in immigration opinions between the public and the tiny fraction of Americans who are in the "Opinion Elite" (top leaders of corporations, unions, religion, universities, think tanks, political parties, the federal Administration and Congress). Harris Interactive poll for the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, 2002.

• 60 percent of the public fears that the current flow of immigrants and refugees into the U.S. is a "critical threat" to the country. Only 14 percent of the Opinion Elite see immigration as a critical threat.


• The public is far more favorable to decreasing legal immigration than the Opinion Elite (57 percent of the public versus 18 percent of Opinion Elite). Analysis of poll results

Specifically, the tiny ruling elite identified in this survey consists of

"top executives of the Fortune 1000 corporations; presidents of the largest labor unions; TV and radio news directors, network newscasters, newspaper editors and columnists; leaders of all religious faiths, chosen proportionate to the number of Americans who worship in each; presidents of large special interest groups and think tanks with an emphasis on foreign policy matters; presidents and faculty of universities; members of the U.S. House and Senate; and assistant secretaries and other senior staff in the Administration."

In summary, the tiny ruling elite that imposes immigration against the democratic will is composed of eight powerful groups:

• Corporate executives
• Labor union leaders
• Media commentators
• Religious preachers
• Political lobbyists
• Academic faculty
• Career politicians
• Senior bureaucrats

When opinion polls consistently show a majority of the public against immigration, legal or illegal, the issue clearly is not whether immigration is American or un-American, culturally enriching or destructive, good for the economy or bad etc., the real issue is: Why can't we have democracy?

That's all there is to it. Keep it simple. Permanent link