Although 51 percent of
Americans think immigrants strengthen the country, an overwhelming majority of
Americans do not want to see immigration levels increase, according to a new
Pew poll.
Just 24 percent of those
polled said the U.S. should increase the number of legal immigrants allowed
into the country, while 70 percent said the level of immigration should
decrease or remain the same. Six percent said they didn’t know. (RELATED: Media Ignores Evidence
Americans Want To REDUCE Legal Immigration)
The share of those who
believe immigrants strengthen the country by their hard work and talents
dropped from a high of 57 percent last year to a small majority of 51 percent
this year. And the share of those who believe immigrants are a burden on the
economy rose from 35 to 41 percent.
The declining share of
Americans who view immigrants unfavorably holds across party lines, although
most Democrats and Independents still believe they strengthen the country.
The share of Republicans
who believe immigrants strengthen the country dropped sharply from about 45
percent in 2013 to just 27 percent this year. The share of Democrats who view
immigrants favorably dropped a few points to 62 percent, and the share of
Independents dropped slightly to 57 percent.
Despite a number of
polls similar to this one showing more Americans than not — across party and
demographic lines — are concerned about legal immigration, most of the
Republican and Democratic 2016 candidates favor an increase.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and former Pennsylvania Sen.
Rick Santorum are the only 2016
candidates talking about slowing the rate of legal immigration into the
country, for the sake of American workers.
The foreign-born
population will reach 51 million by 2023, which is the largest share of total
population ever recorded in American history, the U.S. Census Bureau recently
projected. (RELATED: Wages Declined As
Immigration Surged)
Nearly one in five U.S.
residents will be an immigrant by 2060, largely because of legal immigration,
not illegal immigration, a Center for Immigration Studies analysis of the Census data found. And immigrants will account for 82
percent of population growth in the U.S. from 2010 through 2060.
The Pew Research Center
polled 2,002 adults May 12-18, with a margin of error of +/- 2.5 percentage
points.
Read more at http://lastresistance.com/12025/70-of-americans-say-no-more-immigration/#Ggvxki2WvLxljsww.99
Comments
Countries use
immigration to supplement their labor supply. We don’t have a labor shortage. We shut down immigration for a decade during
the Great Depression, but this time we doubled immigration for the 2nd
Great Depression. Now we have 93 million working-age US citizens without
jobs. That’s a real unemployment rate
approaching 40%.
Open borders for
decades, bad trade agreements, inept, corrupt regulation, excessive federal
spending and exploding government debt caused this one. Our federal government
is either evil, stupid or both.
‘You can have open
borders or a welfare state, but you can’t have both’ – Milton Friedman
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA
Tea Party Leader
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