{"id":35151,"date":"2019-01-09T11:36:48","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T16:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=35151"},"modified":"2019-01-09T11:36:48","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T16:36:48","slug":"the-numbers-do-they-actually-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=35151","title":{"rendered":"The Numbers–Do They Actually Matter?"},"content":{"rendered":"

On January 6th, The Conservative Tribune<\/a> posted an article about illegal immigration.<\/p>\n

The article reported:<\/p>\n

According to an\u00a0Economist\/YouGov survey<\/a>, a jaw-dropping 93 percent of Americans believe that illegal immigration is a problem.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cA wide-ranging Economist\/YouGov survey<\/a> gauged the level of concern Americans have on the issue to find that only 7 percent of the overall public say illegal immigration is \u2018not a problem\u2019; 2 percent of Republicans, 7 percent of independents and even 12 percent of Democrats agree with the statement,\u201d\u00a0The Washington Times<\/a> reported.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are differences in how serious people believe the immigration problem is, but those who shrug off illegal immigration are few and far between.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201c40 percent of Americans overall say illegal immigration in the U.S. is a \u2018very serious problem\u2019; 73 percent of Republicans, 38 percent of independents and 15 percent of Democrats agree,\u201d The Times explained.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201c22 percent overall say illegal immigration is a \u2018somewhat serious problem\u2019; 19 percent of Republicans, 21 percent of independents and 26 percent of Democrats agree,\u201d the paper summarized. Another 24 percent of Americans said that it was a \u201cminor problem.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

At the same time, the Economist\/YouGov survey revealed some inconvenient results for liberals.<\/strong><\/p>\n

When respondents were asked if they trusted Republicans or Democrats to deal with border security, a higher percentage \u2014 31 percent \u2014 said \u201cRepublicans.\u201d Meanwhile, 62 percent thought Congress should compromise with the president to end the government shutdown.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It seems as if most Americans are aware of the problems associated with illegal immigration regardless of what the media is trying to tell us. A border wall is a good idea. However, we also need to do something about America’s very broken immigration system. Our current immigration laws have been exploited by major corporations to replace American workers with cheaper workers. This has been done not only on the low end of the pay scale, but also on the higher end.<\/p>\n

On June 3, 2015, The New York Times<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n

Instead, about 250 Disney employees were told in late October<\/a> that they would be laid off. Many of their jobs were transferred to immigrants on temporary visas for highly skilled technical workers, who were brought in by an outsourcing firm based in India. Over the next three months, some Disney employees were required to train their replacements to do the jobs they had lost.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Of course that was legal immigration, but it was a typical case of a corporation using a bad law to its advantage.<\/p>\n

I don’t know if the wall will actually be built. It should be. The wall is opposed by Democrats (present and future voters–many illegals are currently voting in our elections) and Republicans (U.S. Chamber of Commerce members who support illegal immigration because it depresses wages in the lower sectors of the economy and increases their profits). We have reached a point where our representatives not only do not represent us–they have forgotten to represent the best interests of America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On January 6th, The Conservative Tribune posted an article about illegal immigration. The article reported: According to an\u00a0Economist\/YouGov survey, a jaw-dropping 93 percent of Americans believe that illegal immigration is a problem. \u201cA wide-ranging Economist\/YouGov survey gauged the level of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2239,7736,10303,735,11732,6896,6388,99,8538,1399,10388,6700,11942,8558,8530,7624,607],"class_list":["post-35151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-americans","tag-border-security","tag-border-wall","tag-congress","tag-conservative-tribune","tag-disney","tag-government-shutdown","tag-illegal-immigration","tag-immigrants","tag-immigration","tag-immigration-law","tag-security","tag-the-conservative-tribune","tag-the-new-york-times","tag-the-washington-times","tag-u-s-chamber-of-commerce","tag-washington-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35152,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35151\/revisions\/35152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}