Poll: More Americans want immigration to stay the same

Poll: More Americans want immigration to stay the same
- March 21, 2019
- Louis DeSipio, Chicano/Latino studies and poli sci, via AP, The New York Times, The Washington Post, NBC Los Angeles and multiple outlets nationwide, March 21, 2019
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A growing number of Americans say immigration levels should remain the same or increase, according to a major U.S. survey, a shift that comes as the Trump administration has ramped up immigration enforcement. … "People are more tolerant of immigration than the president and the far right would have us believe," said Louis DeSipio, a political science professor at the University of California, Irvine.
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