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65% of Americans according to the Harris poll agree with Trump on his immigration policies on DACA. The poll also shows 84-percent of voters believe there should be a priority on a person’s ability to contribute to America when being considered for citizenship. The Harris poll also indicates a vast majority of voters want an end to the visa lottery system with 70-percent of participants opposing a random lottery.

http://www.oann.com/majority-of-americans-in-favor-of-pres-trumps-immigration-policies-according-to-harris-poll/

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8 minutes ago, HSFBfan said:

84-percent of voters believe there should be a priority on a person’s ability to contribute to America when being considered for citizenship

How do you determine what constitutes an individual's ability to contribute to America? Fine, I grant you certain things may be self evident, for example, an elite athlete or scientist, a billionaire who plans on investing in American jobs, etc. But how do you make the determination for the more mundane individual. And who/which body will be responsible for making it? And, probably equally importantly, given the current state of things in the USA, what makes you think the truly elite will be interested in coming here? (that is a serious question by the way)

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Just now, Sportsnut said:

980 voters are not a representation of the majority.

Damn that's stupid to think that 980 is speaking for that 320 million.

It may be enough. It depends on how the sample was taken and also on the nature of the population being sampled.

A very small sample from a large population can, in fact, be very effective in estimating attributes of the population. 

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21 minutes ago, Drummer61 said:

As  Long as states like Calf and NY allow sanctuary status and ILLEGAL INVADERS commit more crime and increas in numbers of the 500,000 already in prisons, that sentiment will increase and maybe landowners on the borders will stop some of the INVADERS...

The reason you are a failure in life is not due to illegals.

You are a failure because you failed in life.

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55 minutes ago, Drummer61 said:

As  Long as states like Calf and NY allow sanctuary status and ILLEGAL INVADERS commit more crime and increas in numbers of the 500,000 already in prisons, that sentiment will increase and maybe landowners on the borders will stop some of the INVADERS...

That's not true.  If you search "undocumented crime rate"  you will see that the literature from studies doesn't support your conclusion.  The undocumented crime rate is lower than the overall crime rate. 

One study by the Crime Prevention Research Center seems to support your claim.  It is a known right-wing organization whose founder is supported by the NRA.  Even the right-wing CATO Institute disputes the Crime Prevention Research Center's conclusion.

https://www.cato.org/blog/fatal-flaw-john-r-lott-jrs-study-illegal-immigrant-crime-arizona

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1 hour ago, Sportsnut said:

No way 980 can give you a statistical blueprint of 320 million.

Taken by a right wing organization. Don't you think they would conduct the survey in an area that the results will fit their agenda

Again, depending on the population being sample and the way in which the sample was conducted, it could be a sufficiently large sample size. Now if there is reason to believe that the organization conducting the sample was shopping for a particular result, that is a totally different issue.

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1 hour ago, Drummer61 said:

As  Long as states like Calf and NY allow sanctuary status and ILLEGAL INVADERS commit more crime and increas in numbers of the 500,000 already in prisons, that sentiment will increase and maybe landowners on the borders will stop some of the INVADERS...

I am not sure how this response relates to the post of mine you quoted. Perhaps you should be so kind to enlighten this "slow" individual. 

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34 minutes ago, stanscript said:

That's not true.  If you search "undocumented crime rate"  you will see that the literature from studies doesn't support your conclusion.  The undocumented crime rate is lower than the overall crime rate. 

One study by the Crime Prevention Research Center seems to support your claim.  It is a known right-wing organization whose founder is supported by the NRA.  Even the right-wing CATO Institute disputes the Crime Prevention Research Center's conclusion.

https://www.cato.org/blog/fatal-flaw-john-r-lott-jrs-study-illegal-immigrant-crime-arizona

There are studies on both sides of the argument.

The fact is that crime should be lower for one simple reason:

Any crime committed by an illegal in this country should never have happened in the first place.

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