Polls Say Reduce All Immigration

A new poll shows that a large majority of likely voters nationwide do not support an influx of new foreign workers, complicating the prospects of immigration reform in the House.

Opponents of the sweeping immigration reform bill passed by the Senate in June are focused on the nation's 7.4 percent unemployment rate as a potential stumbling block for the legislation...

Nearly 60 percent of likely voters also oppose the Senate bill's proposal to increase the number of green cards for new immigrants to 20 million over the next decade, according to the poll. Twenty-eight percent of respondents supported such an increase.

Three-quarters of those surveyed said there are more than enough unemployed Americans with lower levels of education to fill the jobs that would go to millions of new immigrants under the Senate bill. Only 17 percent said foreign workers are needed to fill labor shortages.

Pulse Opinion Research conducted the poll for NumbersUSA by surveying 1,000 likely voters across the nation.

 It showed that a solid majority of voters are worried about the impact immigration reform, which could put millions of illegal immigrants on a path to citizenship and create large guest-workers programs, will have on the labor market.

When asked what employers should do if they have trouble finding U.S. citizens to fill various jobs, 71 percent said they should raise pay levels to attract more candidates. Only 10 percent said employers should bring in immigrant workers to keep costs down...

 Gallup poll - Republicans favor keeping immigration levels the same or reducing them by a 5-1 margin, Democrats by a 2.5-1 margin -

 [Preferences on U.S. Immigration -- by Party ID, 2013]

[Excerpts from The Hill report follow.  National Review's Rich Lowry and the Weekly Standard's Bill Kristol also argued in their recent joint op-ed that more low-skill immigration will hurt workers and should be opposed.  <http://www.nationalreview.com/article/352919/kill-bill-william-kristol-rich-lowry>

See related polling from Gallup and others at bottom of email]

 [The Hill Newspaper]http://thehill.com/ Poll: Majority oppose more foreign workers under immigration reform by Alexander Bolton - 08/15/13 05:23 AM ET

More polling on this subject here<http://dailycaller.com/2013/06/11/state-voters-oppose-inflow-from-immigration-bill/2/> and here<http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/17/rasmussen-polls-shows-public-knows-little-about-immigration/>.

 Source: STEPHEN MILLER, COMMUNICATIONS

DIRECTOR, RANKING MEMBER JEFF SESSIONS
US SENATE BUDGET COMMITTEE
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Comments

It’s about time we see some polling numbers on immigration. Voters think Washington politicians and the media are either stupid or evil or both.

We need to close all immigration and hang a “Closed for Repairs” sign on the Statue of Liberty until we get real unemployment down from the current 25% to under 5%.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader