A United States Border Patrol vehicle cruises along the primary and secondary fence line on the Tijuana, Mexico border in San Diego, December 20, 2007. The area has been the site of alleged increased violence against the Border Patrol. The Border Patrol says its agents were attacked nearly 1,000 times during a one-year period along the Mexican border, typically by assailants hurling rocks, bottles and bricks. Now the agency is responding with tear gas and powerful pepper-spray weapons firing into Mexico. (UPI Photo/Earl Cryer)67% Say Military Should Be Used On Border To Stop Illegal Immigration -- Yahoo News/Rasmussen Reports
Sixty-seven percent (67%) of U.S. voters say military troops should be sent to the Mexican border to prevent illegal immigration. A new Rasmussen Reports nationwide telephone survey finds that just 18% are opposed and another 15% are not sure.
A majority of Democrats, Republicans, and unaffiliated voters all support the concept of using the troops to stop illegal immigration.
President Obama recently announced that he is sending troops to the Mexican border, but the stated purpose is to prevent the spread of drug-related violence.
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My Comment: I doubt that President Obama is going to transport thousands of U.S. soldiers to the U.S.-Mexico border .... but this poll reveals the disconnect between what the mass majority of people want and what Washington believes should be the policy on the borders.
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The President does not have the will to deploy thousands of troops to the border. Plenty of troops at Fort Hood who should be more than willing.
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We d not yet have as some countries do a national police force and thus far it has always been against our policy to use our regular army as policemen. Now you can ask that this change, and that is ok, but to blame the current president for has been a long-standing policy is just plain political nonsense.
ps: the way the nation is meant to work: if a majority feel this or that way about an issue, it gets reflected in elections and not each time Rasmussen runs a poll.
Thanks Fred Lapides for your comment. I completely agree .... elections have consequences.
But just as I had predicted in 2006 and 2008 that the political landscape was going to change in America, I am also predicting that the landscape will change in this year's Congressional elections.
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