The Washington Post reports that supporters of the immigration bill are feeling buoyed by recent events. The most deadly of the amendments have been beaten back, and the coalition is proving surprisingly resilient in the face of opposition organizing. This may be because the immigration bill has a lot of very intense opponents, but isn't actually all that unpopular. A Post poll shows:
You've got solid majorities in favor of both controversial planks in the bill. And they're not even well-described. If you asked whether temporary workers should be allowed at prevailing wages, in counties with low unemployment rates (temporary workers aren't permitted in counties with unemployment at 7% or higher), and only after the job has been posted in the employer workplace, offered to any interested citizens, and posted for ten days in a wide circulation newspaper, you'd have an even heavier majority than you see now.
