Poll: Voters Want Immigration Limits

The Polling Company has a recent look at voters’ attitudes toward immigration. In general, those surveyed favor restriction of legal immigration and tighter enforcement against illegal immigration. Hat tip to Laura Ingraham’s Lifezette for the link.

As we head into the 2018 election cycle, The Polling Company’s recent survey research found that almost two-thirds of all likely midterm voters support reducing illegal immigration and are opposed to the DACA amnesty unless it is coupled with ending chain migration along with mandating that employers use E-verify.

The study contains much additional detail but the above is a fair summary of their findings. Told that the government gives out roughly one million lifetime work permits (green cards) per year to legal immigrants, by far the largest group of respondents wanted that reduced to 250,000 or less - roughly 5/8 of those with an opinion agreed. Counterintuitively, Hispanic and Latino voters also tended to agree.

Opposition to open-borders immigration was an under-reported factor in Trump’s 2016 win. “Under-reported” because the legacy media - Democrats all - oppose immigration limits.