This could be good news for state Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, the arch-conservative from western Pennsylvania seeking the Republican Party nomination for Lt. Governor in Tuesday's Primary Election.A new poll released by Scott Rasmussen says nearly 6 in 10 Pennsylvania voters support tougher immigration laws patterned after Arizona. Metcalfe has proposed enacting similar immigration legislation in Pennsylvania.
From Rasmussen Reports:
Fifty-eight percent (58%) of Likely Pennsylvania Voters favor a law like the one recently adopted in Arizona that authorizes local police to check the immigration status of individuals they stop, according to a recent Rasmussen Reports telephone survey. Thirty-two percent (32%) oppose such a law.Read more poll results at Rasmussen Reports.
These numbers are roughly in line with the national average.
But 54% of Pennsylvania voters are at least somewhat concerned that a law like Arizona's, which critics view as racial profiling, will violate the civil rights of some U.S. citizens. Forty-three percent (43%) don't share that concern.
The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters in Pennsylvania was conducted on May 6, 2010 by Rasmussen Reports.
In Pennsylvania, 68% of likely voters believe in a welcoming immigration policy that keeps out only “national security threats, criminals and those who would come here to live off our welfare system.” Just 20% disagree with a policy like this, while 12% are undecided.
Republicans support the tougher policy against illegal immigrants more than Democrats and voters not affiliated with either party.
1 comment:
Quick somebody tell Joe Hoeffel what 58% of PA citizens favor. I don't think Joe read the law and I am sure he doesn't unerstand it. It is too simple. But he is not in favor of it (Thursday's interview Times Herald). Hoeffel is an Olympic flip-flopper and has the guts to point fingers at others. When he learns that's what PA citizens want then Joe will flip.
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