Tuesday, February 3, 2015

86% want immigration to remain at today’s level or decrease

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Gallup recently asked adults around the country a very simple question about immigration: Are you satisfied, or dissatisfied, with the level of immigration into the United States today? Are too many immigrants coming? Too few? Or is the number just about right?

Before giving the results, it’s important to note what that number is. The U.S. awards legal permanent resident status — a green card, which means lifetime residency plus the option of citizenship — to about 1 million people per year, a rate Sen. Marco Rubio calls “the most generous” on Earth. In addition, the government hands out more than a half-million student and exchange visas each year, tens of thousands of refugee admissions, and about 700,000 visas to temporary workers and their families. The percentage of foreign-born people in the U.S. population is heading toward levels not seen since the period of 1890 to 1910.
So is that too much, or too little?

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  1. AnonymousFebruary 3, 2015 at 10:02 PM

    I dont mind so much that folks come to this country, thats what we are founded on is imagrants. What I do care about is how they get here. Sneaking across our borders, some wish to work and send money home to their families while others bring drugs, disease, crime and harm to us. Immigration is fine as long as we know who we are really letting in.

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    1. Brock TownsendFebruary 3, 2015 at 10:38 PM

      I am sure it infuriates those who spent many years and much money to come here legally.

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 3, 2015 at 11:09 PM

    Here is a really cool chart with the top 10 US immigrant groups over time from 1960 to 2012 - you can move the gauge to see the composition change by year - click on the country for the raw data:
    http://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/largest-immigrant-groups-over-time

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    1. Brock TownsendFebruary 3, 2015 at 11:23 PM

      Thanks and that is very revealing as I expected to see Vietnam in 1980, but they were evidently placed among other countries at that date. They don't have their own slice of the pie until 1990, although the Boat People came over from 1975 onwards. Needless to say, this means that the increase is from relatives of the original refugees and you can just imagine what the results will be from Muslims who breed like rabbits.

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