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May 25, 2007
 
 

About That Misleading NYT Poll


"As opponents from the right and left challenge an immigration bill before Congress, there is broad support among Americans — Democrats, Republicans and independents alike — for the major provisions in the legislation, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll," the New York Times writes.

"This [poll] ignores the actual alternative to amnesty, newly embraced by George Will and Peggy Noonan, which is to enforce the law and permit the illegal population to decline through attrition. My research director talked to a pollster a few weeks back at a major polling organization about this specific issue, and that guy said they just read the newspapers to see what they should ask people about, and all he'd seen in the papers was politcians offering the choice between amnesty and mass deportations," notes CIS executive director Mark Krikorian.

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