Americans Really Don't Like Immigration, New Survey Finds

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Americans Really Don't Like Immigration, New Survey Finds
Sixty-one percent say it jeopardizes the nation.

By  Peter Coy

March 7, 2016

Sixty-one percent of Americans agree that "continued immigration into the country jeopardizes the United States," according to a new poll commissioned by management consulting firm A.T. Kearney that revealed pessimism across a wide range of issues.

The degree of concern is remarkable considering that the question was about all immigration, including the legal kind. Even Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has said he supports legal immigration into the U.S.

A.T. Kearney gave Bloomberg Businessweek an exclusive first look at the results of the survey, which covers 2,590 respondents and is part of an America@250 study that's intended to gauge the nation's direction with 10 years to go before its 250th birthday. The study, which will be posted online later this month, was conducted last October and November by NPD Group.

The political climate may help account for Americans' immigration fears, says Paul Laudicina, chairman of the Global Business Policy Council, which is a unit of A.T. Kearney. "Given what's going on in the national discourse and the desperate state of national politics ... it makes people vulnerable to jingoistic sloganeering," he said in an interview.

A belief that immigration jeopardizes the U.S. was common across age groups, although highest among baby boomers (65 percent) and lowest among millennials (55 percent). By education, it was highest among those with just a high school education or some college (65 percent), and by region it was highest in the South, including Texas (66 percent).

The A.T. Kearney survey seems to show more negativity toward immigration than other recent surveys, although it's hard to tell because each one uses its own question wording. A Pew Research Center study conducted in August through October found that 53 percent of respondents thought immigration strengthened the U.S. vs. 38 percent who thought it burdened the U.S. In a Gallup Poll in June, 34 percent of respondents favored a decrease in immigration, 25 percent favored an increase, and 40 percent favored keeping it at current levels.

What is clear is that Americans are more down on immigration than in past eras. As recently as 2002, the Harris Poll found that only 1 percent of Americans mentioned immigration, including refugees, when asked to name the two most important issues for the government to address. That rose to 19 percent last year.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-07/americans-really-don-t-like-immigration-new-survey-finds

[kimba1]

Immigrants was never a liked group ever in any country. We publicly say we like legal immigrants but if any gets mistakenly deported nobody will give it a thought . They are the perfect scapegost for all problems. If all immigrants gets deported then more money and jobs will go to us real Americans is a very common thought. I notice the kind of person who thinks this way tends to be a very non-productive person and not likely have much luck go thier way

[kimba1]

For some reason this reminds of a common joke spoken in West Virginia.
Why do Americans want thier immigrants to only speak english .

To lower the curve for the rest of us.

Took me awhile to figure that one

[Plane]

19%

?

This is one in five .

The four in five must think other issues more important.

[kimba1]

To be fair nowadays immigrants are lot more visible today