‘Fairness’: The Real Reason Americans Souring on Immigration Status Quo
by JOHN HAYWARD
5 Aug 2016
The new Breitbart/Gravis pollfinding Americans deeply worried about immigration issues and highly skeptical of open-borders “solutions” is not an outlier.
The intensity of some negative responses was remarkable, but other polls have found Americans pessimistic about illegal immigration, and even souring on the legal variety, for quite some time.
For example, Bloomberg News professed surprise that an A.T Kearney/NPD Group poll from March 2016 detected a pattern of opinion similar to the Breitbart/Gravis results. “The degree of concern is remarkable considering that the question was about all immigration, including the legal kind,” Bloomberg wrote. Among those remarkable findings was that even the demographic least likely to believe “immigration jeopardizes the U.S.,” millennials, agreed with that position fully 55 percent of the time.
An effort was made to discard America’s souring on immigration as partisan noise, with an executive from the Kearney group sneering to Bloomberg that “the desperate state of national politics” makes people “vulnerable to jingoistic sloganeering.” One can only wonder which “jingoistic slogan” he might have had in mind.
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