It's not a scientific survey, but a recent poll of Chicago Tribune readers showed an overwhelming majority of readers support the arrest and deportation of illegal immigrant and Social Security fraudster Elvira Arellano. You'll recall I wrote about the Trib's bias on Monday.
The results of the four poll questions were published in an August 21 post at Eric Zorn's "Change of Subject" blog:
We asked chicagotribune.com readers for their views on the Elvira Arellano case. Here are the results after approximately 23,900 votes were registered:
Should Elvira Arellano have been arrested for breaking U.S. immigration law?
Should a church building provide sanctuary from the law?
Arellano's 8-year-old son is a U.S. citizen. Should that make a difference in how her deportation case is handled?
Regardless of your personal feelings, do you think Arellano's case will generate so much sympathy and passion among her supporters that she'll become the Rosa Parks of the immigrant rights movement?
Check here for more NewsBusters blog posts about biased Arellano reporting.
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ROFLMAO! This is both
August 21, 2007 - 14:10 ET by bigtimerROFLMAO!
This is both sides of the aisles....
Just wonder when the leftists in the msm and the politicains are going to WAKE UP and get a CLUE!!!
I am sick and tired of hearing her called an activist already in the msm.
Btw....thanks for this poll Ken S.... makes my day!
Awesome!
August 21, 2007 - 14:20 ET by Maverick313When I read the article I took the poll... I was heartned to see so many people that feel the same way we do. I especially laughed when the legal guardian of Arellano's boy said that the government seperated Arellano from him.... Uh... HELLO! She made the choice to have the illegitimate child here in the states on purpose, so that she could stay with him. I believe that he should have been sent with her... if they didn't want them to be seperated then why keep him here? He needed to go back with her because she probably got pregnant in Mexico right? Mexico conception, Mexican citizen. Stop the anchor baby bullsh*t and they will stop coming here in droves.
The senators that are for this immigration "reform" are the ones thinking that "hey, if we support this then they will vote for us when we naturalize them!" NOT! They will vote Mexican. PERIOD!
If you don't stand behind our troops; please feel free to stand in front of them!
Actor
August 21, 2007 - 14:37 ET by iveseenitallArellano is more of an Actor-vist than an Activist. This reminds me of the Alamo. Only this time its the politicians, the lefties in the MSM, and the illegal Mexican Actor-vists who are holed up and will soon be overwhelmed by law-abiding Americans. They just don't (won't) get it. The law is the law is the law--DUH!
NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"
An Example of........Majority "trying" to Rule Congress
August 21, 2007 - 14:25 ET by JayTeeUnfortunately, the Majority is only "Trying" to rule on the immigration issue....when it should be ruling via it's representatives......
Chicago is Deep Blue...maybe the Dems have a message from the Blue state Majority about how they feel about Immigration ?
Then we have the latest 18% favorable rating for Congress, with Bush holding at 32%. Congress better get it together, or they're heading for single Digit ratings and another "Mandate" from the Majority of Americans.
Bush is turning around the War...the Dems better figure out how to Turn around their Image.....Lipstick on a Pig, still looks like Hillary.
What good is a Free Press, if it is a False Press ? David Foote GoE
This poll is totally
August 21, 2007 - 14:36 ET by MidAmericaThis poll is totally irrelevant. Only polls that have 'correct' results are accepted.
Nah, nah, na na Nah,
August 21, 2007 - 14:44 ET by Airforce_5_ONah, nah, na na
Nah, nah, na na
Hey, hey, hey
GOODBYE!!!
The only thing you should feel when shooting insurgents is the rifle recoil.
Hey Elvira...
August 21, 2007 - 15:10 ET by Hero SquadGiddy Up, Oom Poppa, Oom Poppa, Mow Mow
Giddy Up, Oom Poppa, Oom Poppa, Mow Mow
Heigh-ho Silver, and away
*****
"Some people have a way with words. Other people, er, I don't know. Not have way, I guess." - Steve Martin
She's gone, gone, gone I
August 21, 2007 - 15:41 ET by Airforce_5_OShe's gone, gone, gone
I don't know if I'm happy
I don't know if I'm sad
She's gone, gone, gone
I don't if I'll cry
I don't know if I'll die...From laugh'in
Bad Company
The only thing you should feel when shooting insurgents is the rifle recoil.
Thank God and Greyhound
August 21, 2007 - 22:03 ET by MikeBThank God and Greyhound she's gone.
"A communist is someone who reads Marx. An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx." Ronald Reagan
Nike.... OMG! Thank God
August 21, 2007 - 22:08 ET by bigtimerNike....
OMG!
Thank God in Greyhound She's Gone!
Roy Clark....a beautiful man that could sing and say anything.
I cannot believe someone else remembers that....
MY first husband does....
Roy Clark has an unusual
August 21, 2007 - 22:34 ET by MikeBRoy Clark has an unusual singing voice, a soothing voice. But it is in instrumental music where he excels. His renditions of "Black Sapphire" and "Racing The Mule" have never been equalled. How he can make his pudgy, short fingers move that fast, I'll never know.
"A communist is someone who reads Marx. An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx." Ronald Reagan
Gee, what a shocker.
August 21, 2007 - 14:57 ET by motherbeltGee, what a shocker. Americans want their laws enforced. I think everyone is tired of lawbreakers demanding "compassion" because they have a child, etc. Citizens who break laws are required to go to jail, even if they have children. Why should this woman be any different?
I think it's time we ended the "anchor baby" laws too. Citizenship should only be conferred upon an infant born of a US citizen, not as a result of the location where the birth took place. Maybe we should take a page from the Jews...only a child born of a Jewish mother is considered Jewish.
Anchor-baby laws are
August 21, 2007 - 18:56 ET by KhyrisAnchor-baby laws are anything BUT laws... they are merely another case of SCOTUS legislating from the bench.
"Every Person born within the limits of the United States, and subject to their jurisdiction, is by virtue of natural law and national law a citizen of the United States. This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons.
Senator Jacob Howard, Co-author of the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment, 1866.