Why do our representatives for the immigration bill say that the American people want it passed?

Question

After reading answer after answer on questions about the immigration bill how can some representatives say the American people want this? Instead of sitting on our rears and doing nothing or thinking someone else will do the work for me we need to ban together. All of us not some of us and make it known that Amnesty will not be tolerated.
We can all see how well that approach worked the last 2 times it was done. I creates more problems and more illegals. They obvisously don't care about what we have to say so we need to say it louder. We vote them in and we need to make them work for us not sit there. Americans need to ban together for once. We have become a society of all for one and who cares about the rest.

Answer 1

There was a lot of lying going on about the senate shamnesty bill, particularly from the liberal media, NY Times, CNN, LA Times, etc. There were polls that found Americans supported legalizing most illegal aliens, but those polls were bogus. They only gave people two choices; deport all the illegals, or give them amnesty. Other polls that gave a third choice, enforce our immigration laws and secure our border, showed that Americans were against giving amnesty to illegals.

SO both sides could say that they had the support of the American people, according to their polls. However, for most senators, the correspondence from their constituents was overwhelmingly against the senate bill, so many senators voted against cloture. They wanted to keep their jobs.

Try joining a yahoo group that deals with the immigration issue, such as protect our border now.

Answer 2

I beleive that the results on the "amnesty" immigration bill show that the American public can still dictate to Washington and force an issue to be resolved in a sensible manner. I would like to see the same effort on election reform, border security, and revision of the tax code. Let us, as a people, dictate to Washington that we will not stand for "politics as usual"

The best thing about that pressure was the defeat of President Bush's position, but also the defeat of the democrat leadership in the Senate. It also pinpointed the bipartisan stupidity of the Senate. I like Tom Tancredo's pledge to defeat the compromisers on this issue from both sides of the aisle.

Answer 3

Because they lie like Persian rugs? They don't have to pay into Social Security because they have a wonderful pension plan of their own. They are completely out of touch with the rest of the United States.

Take your pick at election time. We have the party of cheap labor or the party of cheap votes. Some choice, huh?

Keep those phones ringing, faxes and letters coming, and let's start taking our country back.

Once we remove the "magnet" of public assistance and illegal employment, they will leave all by themselves. No nasty deportations would be necessary.

Answer 4

Whenever someone starts off with "sweetie" you know they're going to say some condescending ignorant crap.
Regardless of what the polls say, and anyone who's researched the accuracy and truth of polls know the can be 100% wrong and still have "data" to reference, you need to make your own opinion heard and let them know whats up.
I would even wager that the only people who support acceptance of illegal immigration are illegal aliens, businesses who hire illegal aliens and the children of illegal aliens. Now that is a lot of people, and it shouldn't be, but in the US population its actually a very small percentage. They just have a lot of lobbyists right now.

Answer 5

Sweetie....you are not "AMERICA". You have a right to feel, think and believe in what you want, but that does not mean everyone else feels the same as you do. Yes, there are a lot of Americans out there that feel as you do, and then again there's A LOT more Americans that would disagree with you.

In response to your statement about how "we have become a society of all for one and who cares about the rest" ... I have to say it lacks intellectual acuity. AMERICA is a society of all, because it so diversed in it's population, that's what makes America so great and beautiful.

It states it in the Pledge of Alligence: "one nation under all".

Answer 6

Our reps are not saying that. they are saying the the American people want something done about illegal immigration, which is true. They just haven't come up with the right plan yet.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

We the people 200 million made our voices heard , The shamnesty bill was defeated.2 weeks ago .The cities & States are enforceing our laws it's on a roll.

Answer 9

Because they are in the deep pockets of big buisness.
Plus there is an agenda being pushed by our gov't to knock us down to a 3rd world country and to make us equally poor with the rest of the world in order to ease us into the NEW WORLD ORDER.

Answer 10

We the people killed the bill by phone calls, faxes and emails. So i would say we made some real progress. Washington is out of touch with the people.