President Bush gives speech.

Americans overwhelmingly favor secure borders and tougher enforcement before the nation can even consider an amnesty. Recent polls reveal that 62% favor better control of the borders over amnesty and even 45% of liberals oppose amnesty.

A poll conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC show that liberals are concerned about rising population numbers due to increased immigration. The poll revealed that 45 percent of liberals oppose amnesty.
Progressives for Immigration Reform, April 2009

Sixty-two percent say gaining control of the borders is more important than legalizing the status of undocumented workers.
Rasmussen Reports, November 7, 2008

Fifty-nine percent of Americans polled believe the more effective way to deal with the potential treat to national security posed by millions of illegal immigrants living within the United States is to crack down on illegal immigration by toughening the enforcement of existing laws, deporting illegal immigrants and prosecuting the employers who illegally employ workers.
UPI/Zogby Poll; April 13-16, 2007

Sixty-one percent of likely American voters say there are no blanket conditions under which they would support giving legal, green-card status to millions of illegal immigrants.
McLaughlin & Associates poll; April 12-15, 2007

Sixty-one percent of likely American voters oppose providing a path to US citizenship for those illegal immigrants who entered the United States illegally, and who fraudulently obtained green cards and Social Security numbers, when millions are playing by the rules and waiting in their countries to enter the United States legally.
McLaughlin & Associates poll; April 12-15, 2007

Fifty-four percent of Americans polled believe illegal aliens harm the nation's economy.
Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg Poll ; April 5-9, 2007

One reason the public does not like Senate proposals to legalize illegals and double legal immigration is that seventy-three percent said they had little or no confidence in the ability of the government to screen these additional applicants to weed out terrorists and criminals.
Zogby/CIS poll, April 17-24, 2006

By eight-to-one, Americans think it is unfair to grant rights to illegal aliens while thousands of people wait each year to come to the United States legally. Fully eighty-six percent of Republicans think it is unfair, as do seventy-seven percent of Democrats.
Opinion Dynamics Poll for FOX News, April 4-5, 2006

Sixty-five percent of those surveyed said they would be willing to pay significantly higher prices for some goods and services should that be the result of tighter control of the southern U.S. border and a resulting lower number of illegal workers.
Zogby Poll, March 31-April 3, 2006

Fifty-six percent of Americans polled say the U.S. should NOT grant temporary-worker status to foreigners who are here illegally, as this would make them and their families eligible for government services while they are here. We should not reward people who have broken the law, and this will encourage even more people to enter the United States illegally.
NBCNewsWall Street Journal Poll; March 10-13, 2006