Immigration Facts Survey

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* 1. Immigration "restrictionists" want to reduce legal immigration because, they say, it hurts our economy, takes jobs from citizens, makes our border insecure, drains welfare budgets, brings crime, and is giving the U.S. an "unsustainable population". Are they right?

1. Yes. Allowing more legal immigration would hurt citizens and our nation.

2. No. They are wrong. Even a lot more legal immigration would boost our economy, create better jobs for citizens, and make our border more secure by allowing a "line" for people who must come here or watch their families die so they don't have to cross between the legal checkpoints. Immigrants are not eligible for much welfare, and they sign up for much less of what they are entitled to than citizens. Immigrants have a lower crime rate than citizens, with regard to actions which would be crimes if citizens did them. If there is a limit to how many our land can comfortably sustain, it is farther than we can see. The larger the brain pool of free, secure citizens compensated fairly for their labor, the more technology, luxury, food and energy sources they can develop. To imagine otherwise is to think like the Indians who sold Manhattan for 24 beads would have thought had they been told it would one day hold 70,826 people per square mile (as of 2013) so comfortably, and in such luxury, that people would still be trying to move there.

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* 2. Do you agree that if choice #1 is true, it would be foolish for citizens to allow any more legal immigration? But if #2 is true, our current restrictions hurt citizens as much as they do immigrants?

1. Agree.

2. Disagree.

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* 3. Do you know immigrants with no line, who desperately pray for "immigration reform", but who believe restrictionists are probably right about the facts: very much more legal immigration would hurt America and its citizens?

1. Yes, I know many such people.

2. No. Everyone I know who supports "immigration reform" knows it would be as good for America, her economy, and her citizens, as for immigrants.

3. I haven't talked to my friends to know what they believe.

4. It doesn't matter what people with no "line" believe, because they have no voice anyway.

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* 4. Do you agree that it is much easier to ask citizens for freedoms which you believe will benefit America and her citizens, than to ask citizens for what you believe will hurt them?

1. Agree.

2. Disagree.

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* 5. Do you agree there is a need for discussion and debate about the facts that drive immigration policy enough that at least all the people wanting a certain result agree on the facts that justify that result?

1. Agree.

2. Disagree.

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* 6. Typical pro-immigrant organizations publish a page of general principles they want in "immigration reform". Then senators write 1,000 pages of details to fill out those general principles. Do you agree that people wanting reform need much more discussion and understanding of those details than just one page?

1. Agree.

2. Disagree.

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* 7. Do you care enough about immigration to be part of a movement studying and educating the facts and details of immigration policy? To get connected, email HispanicHope@Saltshaker.US.