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    BIPARTISAN: Americans Overwhelmingly DO NOT Want More Immigration, Says New Gallup

    BIPARTISAN: Americans Overwhelmingly DO NOT Want More Immigration, Says New Gallup Poll

    June 28, 2014 By Matthew Burke

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    As the political establishments from both major political parties push to give amnesty to illegal aliens, acting like they’re doing the will of the people, a new poll from Gallup shows that fewer than one in four Americans favor increased immigration to the United States.

    And, unlike most issues facing America today, it’s completely bipartisan.

    Only 14% of Republicans polled are in favor of increased immigration, but surprisingly, only 27% of Democrats favor increasing immigration from current levels.

    By almost a two-to-one margin, 41% to 22%, more Americans think immigration should be lowered from present levels, rather than be increased, as Barack Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner desire. Groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, hungry to import cheap labor, are pressuring political leaders to go against the wishes of the American people, as the poll indicates.



    Democrats have promised that if the Republican dominated Congress doesn’t give Obama the amnesty he desires, he will further the implementation of his dictatorship and “act alone,” bastardizing Article I, Section 1, of the Constitution, which puts all legislative powers in Congress, not the president or the Executive Branch.

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    Immigration Expansion? Not Ok With Most Americans

    Posted on Sunday, June 29th, 2014 at 8:54 pm.
    by: Suzanne Olden


    It has been said that we are a nation of immigrants, and this is true. Immigration, legal immigration, is part of the fabric of our country. However, a new poll done by Gallup shows that a majority of Americans are not in favor of increasing immigration. In fact, the poll shows that only 22% of Americans favor increased immigration. For the math challenged among us that means that 78% don’t!
    In a survey that covered a lot of ground, and one that didn’t differentiate much between legal and illegal immigration, a basic bottom line surfaced: the majority of Americans don’t support increasing immigration. Only 14% of Republicans, 23% of independents, and 27% of Democrats favor increased immigration. What’s more, when respondents were asked about actually decreasing the number of those allowed to immigrate here, 41% said yes, a number that increased from 35% just two years ago and 41% just last year. It breaks down like this: 50% of GOP voters, 43% of independents, and 32% of Democrats.
    Strangely enough, 63% of Americans view legal immigration as a positive thing, they just don’t want to increase it.
    The one area where there is support for increasing immigration is from Americans with college degrees; from 2000 to 2104, adults with a postgraduate education strengthened their support from 17% to 30%. They support allowing those with highly technical skills and higher levels of education to immigrate.
    We know that immigration is part of who we are as a nation. The culmination of a lot of factors is influencing the attitudes of Americans on the issue. Start with 9-11 and the facts about who got into the country, legally, and how they stayed in order to attack us. Then throw in a massive influx of illegals who bring low level workers, crime and take billions of tax dollars from Americans who need them. Then add in record high unemployment. It doesn’t matter who is coming in and taking what jobs, in the eyes of Americans, allowing more immigration is and has become a negative thing.
    Our security and competition for jobs, especially higher paying, technical ones, all rolled together makes even the most immigrant friendly question why we should allow someone to come from a foreign country and take them? Why not hire an American to do the job?
    While some say that letting highly skilled workers come here and boost the profitability of our companies would benefit every, others aren’t so sure. I can see both sides, but I also side more with why not allow Americans to do the job? Why discourage the spirit and intelligence of our own by saying we need a foreigner to do it? And given the numbers above, I’m not alone.
    What I would find even more interesting, would be if the poll had continued to ask the question, so we give amnesty to those here illegally, thereby broadening the job competition yet again? Enough Americans are out of work that the old “well they do jobs that American’s just won’t do” argument is rather obviously flawed. Although, given that the alternative for Americans is to sit back and collect a check for not working… well maybe it isn’t so obviously flawed. The answer may be complicated, but throwing in more workers for a narrow job pool doesn’t seem to be the right answer!

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    Gallup: Far More Americans Want to Decrease Immigration Than Increase It

    June 27, 2014 - 8:45 AM
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    (CNSNews.com) - More Americans think (legal) immigration should be decreased rather than increased, by a nearly two-to-one margin, 41 percent to 22 percent, a new Gallup poll says. A third of American adults (33 percent) are satisfied with the present immigration level.
    Breaking it down by party, Republicans (50 percent) and independents (43 percent) are much more inclined to decrease immigration than Democrats are (32 percent).
    Democrats are more inclined to keep immigration at its current level, with 37 percent of them choosing that option, compared with 34 percent of Republicans and 30 percent of independents.
    And Only 14 percent of Republicans, 23 percent of independents, and 27 percent of Democrats said they would increase immigration.
    But Gallup notes that over time, there has been a steady increase in overall public support for increasing immigration, rising from 10 percent in 1999 to 22 percent today.
    Support for increasing immigration has grown significantly more among Americans with college degrees -- those more likely to be aware of the apparent need for importing highly skilled workers -- than it has among those with less formal education.
    In response to another question -- "On the whole, do you think immigration is a good thing or a bad thing for this country today?" -- 63 percent called it a good thing, down from the high of 72 percent in 2013.
    But 33 percent called it a "bad thing," up from 25 percent in 2013.
    The bottom line, according to Gallup: "Immigration is central to who Americans are as a people, and what the United States represents, and by and large Americans view immigration as positive for the country. But deciding how many new immigrants to welcome each year can be controversial, particularly when unemployment is high, and seeming competition for good jobs already fierce."
    The Gallup poll is based on telephone interviews conducted June 5-8, 2014, on the Gallup Daily tracking survey, with a random sample of 1,027 adults, aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.

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    Americans Want Jobs, Not Immigrants

    June 30, 2014 by Sam Rolley

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    A new poll finds that Americans are in favor decreasing immigration levels. Meanwhile, separate research from the Center for Immigration Studies shows that net employment growth in the U.S. since the year 2000 has gone entirely to immigrants, both legal and illegal.
    “Americans’ views on immigration have varied a bit in the past 15 years, with the dominant view shifting between decreasing immigration and maintaining it at the current level,” Gallup reported. “Some of these changes may reflect the ebb and flow of Americans’ reactions to the 9/11 attacks in 2001 as well as rocketing unemployment in 2009, with both events triggering a temporary surge in anti-immigration sentiment.”
    According to Gallup, 41 percent of Americans report that they would like to see government make moves to reduce the number of immigrants coming to the U.S. Among those who prefer a reduction in immigration, 50 percent are Republicans, 43 percent independents and 32 percent identify as Democrats.
    Thirty-three percent of respondents said that immigration is fine at its present levels, and just 22 percent of those polled wanted to see an increase.
    One of the most important factors in determining whether Americans are accepting of increased immigration is the economy.
    “Deciding how many new immigrants to welcome each year can be controversial, particularly when unemployment is high, and seeming competition for good jobs already fierce,” Gallup said.
    According to the Center For Immigration Studies, for the past 14 years immigrants to the U.S., both legal and illegal, have had an easier time finding employment in the Nation than people who were born in the Nation.
    “All of the net increase in employment went to immigrants in the last 14 years partly because, even before the Great Recession, immigrants were gaining a disproportionate share of jobs relative to their share of population growth,” the report found. “In addition, natives’ losses were somewhat greater during the recession and immigrants have recovered more quickly from it.”
    The study found that 58 million working-age Americans who are native to the country are out of work, including: 8.7 million native college graduates, 17 million Americans with some college education and 25.3 million natives with no more than a high school education.
    The study’s authors contend that their findings shoot holes in many of the arguments that are made for increasing immigration.
    “The long-term decline in the employment for natives across age and education levels is a clear in*dication that there is no general labor shortage, which is a primary justification for the large increases in immigration (skilled and unskilled) in the Schumer-Rubio bill and similar House proposals,” the study said.

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    Gallup Shows Obama Is Wrong About Immigration


    10:46 AM 06/29/2014
    Neil Munro
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    Only one-in-five Americans want to see additional immigration, while two-in-five Americans want less immigration, says a new Gallup poll.
    The June 27 Gallup poll helps to explain why the GOP’s rejected the media-touted lobbying push for the Senate’s June 2013 immigration-boosting bill.
    Progressives and business groups have spent at least $1.5 billion since 2008 pushing for increased immigration, and routinely insist that the public supports their version of “comprehensive immigration reform.” That version was approved last June by the Senate, and it would double the inflow of guest-workers and legal immigrants up to roughly 4 million per year.
    “The majority of the American people want to see immigration reform done,” Obama insisted during in June 27 interview with ABC’s Good Morning America.
    But there’s no evidence for Obama’s claim. Even among Democratic respondents, only 27 percent want increased immigration, said the Gallup survey of 1,027 respondents.
    That’s actually less than the percentage of Democrats who want it reduced, which is 32 percent, according to Gallup.
    Only 23 percent of independents want immigration increased, while 43 percent want it to be reduced, said the new Gallup.
    Fourteen percent of GOP voters want immigration increased, while 50 percent want it reduced.
    Roughly one-third of independents and GOP supporters say they want immigration to remain level, suggesting they’re not very concerned with the issue.
    The new Gallup poll matches many other independent surveys.
    For example, a 2012 Pew Research showed that 69 percent of independents and 59 percent of Hispanics say “We should restrict and control people coming to live in our country more than we do now.”
    A March 2014 poll by the Washington Post showed that independent swing-voters would vote against a legislator who backed amnesty for illegals by 41 percent to 28 percent.
    Even Hispanics oppose greater immigration, despite the concurrent sympathy with their co-ethnics south of the border. In June 2013, only 25 percent of Hispanics wanted immigration increased, according to a February 2014 Gallup poll. Thirty percent of Hispanics wanted immigration reduced, and 43 percent wanted it to stay level.
    However, actual election-day support for more immigration may be far lower than even these polls show.

    http://dailycaller.com/2014/06/29/ga...t-immigration/
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    Fox News poll: Voters want immigration reform

    Just this morning on FOX News they again mentioned this push poll so I thought I'd add it here to show even FOX News is in the tank for an amnesty.

    Fox News poll: Voters want immigration reform


    By Dana Blanton
    Published June 13, 2013FoxNews.com

    Voters want Congress to pass an immigration bill this year, and most support the main provisions in the legislation being considered on Capitol Hill.


    After a vote on Tuesday, the Senate will now officially begin debate on an immigration reform bill. The legislation would strengthen border security and create a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants currently in the country.


    A Fox News poll released Thursday finds that most voters generally favor those provisions.

    The new poll shows 81 percent of voters want to strengthen border security and stop additional illegal entry into the country.


    In addition, 74 percent favor finding a way for the 11 million illegal immigrants already in the country to remain -- and eventually become citizens -- if they meet certain requirements, such as paying back taxes, learning English and passing a background check.


    Republicans (90 percent), people over the age of 65 (87 percent) and whites (83 percent) are among the groups most likely to favor additional border security.


    Democrats (82 percent), people under age 30 (81 percent) and non-whites (79 percent) are among those most likely to support a path to citizenship.


    Most people -- 76 percent -- think it’s important to pass major immigration reform legislation this year (44 percent say it is “very” important and 32 percent say “somewhat” important).

    Large majorities of Democrats (81 percent), independents (74 percent) and Republicans (73 percent), as well as white (74 percent) and non-white voters (79 percent) want immigration reform to happen.


    The Fox News poll is based on landline and cell phone interviews with 1,019 randomly chosen registered voters nationwide and was conducted under the joint direction of Anderson Robbins Research (D) and Shaw & Company Research (R) from June 9 to June 11. The full poll has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points.

    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013...ration-reform/
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    First off that fox poll is a year old.
    Immigration section
    Question 1: How important is it to you that Congress pass major immigration reform legislation this year?
    (What Immigration Reform measures are they talking about those as many other studies have shows Americans idea and Politicians idea on what that is is vastly different.

    Question 2: Do you favor or oppose strengthening border security and figuring out ways to prevent people from entering the United States illegally?
    (no brainer, 81% favior)

    Question 3: Do you favor or oppose allowing the 11 million illegal immigrants currently in the country to remain in the country and eventually -- years down the road -- qualify for U.S. citizenship, as long as they meet certain requirements like paying back taxes, learning English, and passing a background check?

    (loaded question if ever saw one. How does an illegal alien who's in the shadows and can use any name they wish pass a background check? How do we know how much backtaxes they owe? It doesn't even say in the Senates Bill that they must learn English but only enroll.

    Wheres the questions about ending all benefits to illegal aliens. Making sure that illegal aliens or those who *might* get Amnesty get NO public benefits at all paid by taxpayers. What about ending the abuse of illegal aliens having kids in the US and claiming citizenship, same for tourists via birth tourism. What about mandating E-Verify? They could have simply asked: Do you favor or oppose ending all taxpayer paid benefits to illegal aliens including birth citizenship if not of legal immigrant status?

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