{"id":2029242,"date":"2023-09-12T13:27:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T17:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-yorkers-maintain-sunny-attitude-toward-immigrants-despite-influx-from-border-poll\/"},"modified":"2023-09-12T13:28:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T17:28:29","slug":"new-yorkers-maintain-sunny-attitude-toward-immigrants-despite-influx-from-border-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-yorkers-maintain-sunny-attitude-toward-immigrants-despite-influx-from-border-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll shows New Yorkers remain positive about immigrants despite border influx."},"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\">22<\/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%2Fnew-yorkers-maintain-sunny-attitude-toward-immigrants-despite-influx-from-border-poll%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=2029242&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--><h2>New Yorkers Overwhelmingly Support\u2062 Immigration Despite Housing\u2063 Crisis<\/h2>\n<p>New Yorkers remain overwhelmingly in favor of immigration to \u2064the United States despite the state&#8217;s burgeoning crisis to\u2063 house and \u2062resettle newcomers \u2063arriving from \u200bthe southern border.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>New polling\u2063 from the \u2063upstate Siena College Research Institute found that the majority of New York \u200bresidents want the federal government to make it easier for newcomers to obtain documents to work and want to see immigrants housed on federal property rather than in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/true-cost-of-housing-homeless-in-a-historic-hotel-50k-per-resident-in-damages-alone\/\" title=\"Homeless housed in historic hotel cost K per resident in damages.\">privately owned hotels<\/a> and city shelters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Positive Views on \u2064Immigration<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The survey conducted by Siena College revealed that more than 75% of respondents said most immigrants want only to build a \u200dbetter life and\u200b that the country was built by people around the world. Seventy-two percent said immigrants bring vitality \u2064to America, and 60% believed businesses need immigrants to be successful. Slightly more people disagreed with the statement that immigrants take\u2062 in more resources than they return in economic activity \u2014 48% to 42%.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite nearly a third saying that America no longer needs new immigrants, well over half and a majority of both Democrats and Republicans said that businesses need new immigrants in order to be successful,&#8221; said Don Levy, SCRI\u2019s director.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Political Affiliations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>43% of \u2063the poll&#8217;s respondents identified as\u200c Democrats \u2014 more than double the 21%\u200b who said they were Republicans. \u200dThe remaining 36%\u200d were undecided or independent-affiliated. The\u200b higher numbers of Democrats polled were meant to mirror the percentage of New Yorkers who lean to the left politically\u2063 than to the right.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Temporary Shelters and Immigration Reform<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In addition to the overall positive views\u200b on immigration, 56% of New Yorkers\u200c said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-derogatory-geographic-names-task-force-working-to-remove-the-word-squaw-from-federal-lands\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s Derogatory Geographic Names Task Force Working To Remove The Word \u2018Squaw\u2019 From Federal Lands\">federally owned land<\/a> and buildings should be used as temporary shelters for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-yorkers-maintain-sunny-attitude-toward-immigrants-despite-influx-from-border-poll\/\" title=\"Poll shows New Yorkers remain positive about immigrants despite border influx.\">current immigration\u200c surge<\/a>, as opposed to 36% \u200bwho opposed it.<\/p>\n<p>Three in\u2063 five people wanted to see Congress move on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-revives-catch-and-release-to-avoid-housing-illegal-immigrants-amid-border-surge\/\" title=\"Biden Admin Revives \u2018Catch-And-Release\u2019 To Avoid Housing Illegal Immigrants Amid Border Surge\">comprehensive immigration reform<\/a> that provides illegal immigrants with a way to become U.S. citizens, \u200bcompared to\u2064 28% who \u200dopposed it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Easier Access to Federal Documents<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fifty-nine percent of respondents said it should be easier for immigrants to obtain federal documents that allow them to legally work anywhere in the country. These documents cannot be obtained until six months after an \u200dimmigrant \u2064makes a\u200d request for asylum, leaving many\u2063 jobless and unable to secure housing without proof of work.<\/p>\n<p>The survey was conducted among 414 New York adults by landline and cellphones, as well as 386 responses online. The poll had a\u2064 3.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-nearly-half-of-americans-say-bidens-vaccine-mandates-go-too-far\/\" title=\"POLL: Nearly Half Of Americans Say Biden\u2019s Vaccine Mandates Go Too Far\">8 percentage point margin<\/a> of error.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Yorkers still strongly support immigration to the US, despite the state&#8217;s struggle to accommodate and integrate newcomers from the southern border. 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