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Lamar Smith: “A new Gallup poll has found that, by a 2 to 1 margin, Americans want to decrease immigration levels, not increase them.…”

On the recordJuly 15, 2014
A new Gallup poll has found that, by a 2 to 1 margin, Americans want to decrease immigration levels, not increase them. The recent survey shows that 41 percent of Americans support a decrease in immigration. Just 22 percent want it to go up. Only a minority, approximately one-quarter of Independents and Democrats expressed a desire to increase immigration, and a Rasmussen poll found that people earning under $30,000 support a reduction in immigration by a 3 to 1 margin. When is the President going to listen to the American people? They know that when a country has lost control of its borders, it has lost control of its future. ____________________
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Lamar Smith
Republican · Texas
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Jul 15, 2014

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