{"id":7526,"date":"2014-08-26T12:30:51","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T16:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=7526"},"modified":"2018-12-28T14:46:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T19:46:30","slug":"new-polls-show-support-for-true-immigration-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/08\/26\/new-polls-show-support-for-true-immigration-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"New Polls Show Support for TRUE Immigration Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Polls<\/p>\n

In two recent public opinion polls, large majorities of voters said they favor immigration enforcement<\/a>, reduced immigration, and immigration policies that protect the American worker. These findings came from two nationwide surveys<\/a> conducted<\/a> of 1,001 likely voters from July 16-20, 2014 and 1008 adults from August 7-10, 2014, jointly released last week by pollster Kellyanne Conway<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Conway’s poll found that Americans favor more immigration enforcement and reduced levels of immigration<\/a> over amnesty policies. Seventy-five percent of respondents want more enforcement, including 63% of Hispanics and over 50% of Democrats.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Most favor limiting chain migration<\/a> to spouses and minor children, while 76% said adult foreign citizens who overstay their visas<\/a> should not be permitted to remain in the United States.<\/p>\n

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In addition, 70% of those polled believe most illegal aliens should be encouraged to return to their home countries rather than offered legal status in the United States and more than two-thirds of likely voters, including 64% of union members, believe that the U.S. should deny illegal aliens jobs and welfare benefits to encourage repatriation to their home countries.<\/p>\n

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Importantly, large majorities of those polled also indicated strong support for the American worker<\/a>.<\/strong> Eighty-nine percent of respondents agreed that U.S.-born workers and legal immigrants already in the country should receive preference over additional immigrants who come to the United States illegally. Seventy-seven percent also believe U.S. born workers and legal immigrants should be given preference for jobs over new legal immigrants.<\/p>\n

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If businesses have trouble finding workers, 75% of those polled said that U.S. businesses should raise wages and improve working conditions rather than hire immigrants.<\/p>\n

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Furthermore, 80% said businesses should be required to recruit and train more American workers from groups with high unemployment levels.<\/p>\n

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Also, 74% said that the government has a responsibility to adopt immigration policies that protect unemployed or low-wage Americans from competition with illegal aliens for jobs.<\/p>\n

Overall, the poll showed evidence of the increasing dominance of immigration as an issue in the minds of likely voters. A majority of those surveyed (57%) named immigration as the most or one of the three most important issues to their vote this fall.<\/p>\n

Pollster Kellyanne Conway said,<\/a> “I have never seen immigration at the level where it is in terms of American consciousness.”