{"id":1432008,"date":"2022-04-11T22:59:55","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T02:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1432008"},"modified":"2022-04-11T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T03:00:00","slug":"cbs-poll-8-in-10-americans-support-reducing-immigration-stricter-vetting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cbs-poll-8-in-10-americans-support-reducing-immigration-stricter-vetting\/","title":{"rendered":"CBS Poll: 8-in-10 Americans Support Reducing Immigration, Stricter Vetting"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcbs-poll-8-in-10-americans-support-reducing-immigration-stricter-vetting%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1432008&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">The overwhelming majority of Americans say they want less overall immigration to the United States, a new poll finds.<\/p>\n<p>A CBS News\/YouGov Poll <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1O8Rc7BO6uzNdoyDgBYAvBqiwScs9Y6uU\/view\">shows<\/a> that even when Americans are not told the current level of overall immigration to the U.S. \u2014 where more than a million green cards are awarded, more than a million temporary visas are allotted, and hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens are added to the population annually \u2014 they continue to back reductions and limits over expansions and uncontrolled migration.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The poll asks Americans, \u201cWhat do you think U.S. immigration policy should generally be?\u201d About 61 percent of Americans said \u201csome immigration\u201d should be allowed but \u201cbased on strict criteria,\u201d suggesting an overall reduction with a more rigorous vetting and assimilation policy.<\/p>\n<p>About 19 percent of Americans said they want to \u201cstop most or all immigration\u201d to the U.S., while 20 percent said \u201callow a lot of immigration, including most or all people who want to enter,\u201d suggesting support for an open border policy.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20619074\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-11-at-3.24.24-PM.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>CBS News\/YouGov Poll<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The poll shows that Americans are consistently dissatisfied with the nation\u2019s long-running mass immigration policy that has resulted in the highest foreign-born population in American history at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/immigration\/2022\/02\/23\/report-u-s-immigrant-population-hits-record-46-6-million\/\">46.4 million<\/a>. Without an overall reduction in immigration levels, the foreign-born population is projected to hit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/04\/30\/census-one-in-six-residents-to-be-foreign-born-due-to-legal-immigration\/\">nearly 70 million<\/a> by 2060.<\/p>\n<p>In February, a Gallup survey revealed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2022\/02\/15\/bidens-economic-strategy-spikes-public-opposition-to-migration\/\">35 percent of Americans<\/a> want immigration reduced while just nine percent want more immigration to the U.S.\u00a0That is a dramatic 22-point shift since the end of former President Trump\u2019s term when 19 percent wanted less immigration and 15 percent wanted more immigration.<\/p>\n<p>The poll comes as President Joe Biden\u2019s administration tears down border controls that are expected to bring about half a million foreign nationals to the U.S.-Mexico border every month. Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) recently told Breitbart News he expected <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/04\/10\/exclusive-andy-biggs-open-border-midterms-title-42\/\">about 30,000<\/a> foreign nationals to arrive at the border every day \u2014 the largest border surge in American history.<\/p>\n<p>Such an enormous wave of immigration would have drastic impacts on American communities.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of housing, alone, where single-family rents have skyrocketed to new heights \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/04\/04\/report-rent-prices-across-u-s-skyrocket-98-increase-for-1-bedroom-100-for-2-bedroom\/\">increasing<\/a>\u00a0by more than 24 percent year-to-year \u2014 a continuing rise of immigration-driven population growth is likely to send prices even higher.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a02017 study,\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S1051137717300025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">published<\/a>\u00a0in the Journal of Housing Economics, found that \u201cincreases in immigration into a metropolitan statistical area are linked with rising rents and home prices in that\u00a0metropolitan statistical area and neighboring\u00a0metropolitan statistical areas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. population does not have to rapidly increase to record highs. In the past, legal immigration moratoriums\u00a0have been\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2018\/09\/14\/immigration-moratorium-followed-last-period-of-record-u-s-foreign-born-population-levels\/\">implemented<\/a>.\u00a0Research has shown that halting all immigration to the U.S. would stabilize the population to a comfortable 329 million residents in the next four decades.<\/p>\n<p>The CBS News\/YouGov Poll surveyed over 2,000 American adults from April 5 to April 8. The margin of error is +\/- 2.8 percentage points.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JxhnBxnder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The overwhelming majority of Americans say they want less overall immigration to the United States, a new poll finds. 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