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Majority of Likely Voters in Swing States Support Ending Chain Migration

posted onJune 12, 2019
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Article snippet: The latest Zogby Analytics poll conducted for the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) finds that likely U.S. voters in Arizona, Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Wisconsin — all swing states in the 2020 presidential election — by a majority support ending the process known as “chain migration,” whereby newly naturalized citizens can bring an unlimited number of foreign relatives to the U.S. Nearly 70 percent of all legal immigration to the U.S. comes through chain migration. Nearly ten million legal immigrants have been admitted to the country through chain migration in the last decade, alone, and in the next two decades, chain migration is expected to import about eight million new foreign-born voters. Trump, last month, proposed an overhaul of the legal immigration system that would have ended chain migration and replaced it with a rigorous process that selected foreign nationals for admission to the U.S. based on their ability to work in higher wage fields, support themselves financially, speak English, and have knowledge of American civics. A range of 51 to more than 55 percent likely voter majorities in Arizona, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin said they supported ending chain migration and transitioning to a merit-based legal immigration system. Meanwhile, only about 33 to 39.7 percent of likely voters in those five swing states said they opposed ending chain migration. In Florida, with a large foreign-born population, less than 33.5... Link to the full article to read more

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