In town halls, U.S. lawmakers hear voter anger over illegal migrants - "Seventy percent of Americans - including 86 percent of Republicans - believe undocumented immigrants threaten traditional U.S. beliefs and customs, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted in mid-July." (Even this is optimistic, since the second tsunami, the one made up of legal immigrants, including ever mushrooming chain migration, as well as offspring, will inundate us and end Western civilization just as surely.)

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In town halls, U.S. lawmakers hear voter anger over illegal migrants

(Reuters) - When Republican Rep. Jeb Hensarling sat down with colleagues and constituents at a recent Chamber of Commerce lunch in Dallas, the first question he faced was whether Congress planned to address immigration policy and a burgeoning border crisis.

"I'm supposed to do this in 30 seconds?" he joked, noting the issue's complexity. While he was optimistic about long-term prospects for dealing with border security and immigration, he said, "between now and the end of this Congress, I'm a little less sanguine about it."

It has been a question heard repeatedly by lawmakers this month in "town hall" district meetings punctuated - and sometimes dominated - by concerns and angry outbursts over immigration policy and the crisis caused by a flood of child migrants at the southwestern border in recent months.

Those summer town halls have provided lawmakers a first-hand glimpse of growing discontent among Americans over U.S. immigration policy. Seventy percent of Americans - including 86 percent of Republicans - believe undocumented immigrants threaten traditional U.S. beliefs and customs, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted in mid-July. ...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/28/us-usa-immigration-townhalls-idUSKBN0GS0AS20140828

     Strange, isn't it? Ever more diversity is supposed to be heading us toward an ever more wonderful vibrant rainbow future, and yet so many Americans are unhappy, while even most minorities prefer living amongst themselves, and the same politicians who committed us to this wonderful multicultural future--without ever letting us vote upon it!--are now cowering in fear at having to explain and defend their brilliant policies at public forums, you know, where they might actually be exposed to voters, the people they supposedly represent.