A group of Republican senators lobbying for expanded legal immigration to the United States is increasingly joining the party’s fringes, a study released Friday found.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.), Sen. John Thune (R-South Dakota), and Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Ky.) Utah) is currently negotiating an agreement with Senate Democrats to tighten legal restrictions. Increased immigration levels with 50,000 green card admissions per year.
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Some of these new green cards are given to foreigners only because they are connected to families who already live in the United States, but the rest is more than a foreign worker for white -collar work in the United States. It will help import more.
Already, the United States imports more than 1 million legal immigrants with green cards each year, 70% of whom are newly naturalized citizens who sponsor an unlimited number of foreign relatives for a green card. They arrive through a process known as “chain migration.”
But Republican voters have likely been telling pollsters for decades that they want to lower the bar on legal immigration, not raise it.
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Rasmussen’s latest report investigation Studies show that 65% of Republican voters want to reduce current legal immigration levels to at least 750,000 people per year. Half of Republican voters said they would like to see the standards cut by more than half.
Similarly, 72% of Republican voters oppose chain immigration, and more than 6 in 10 Republican voters say the U.S. labor market does not need more foreign workers to fill American jobs. There is.
Census Bureau figures suggest that immigration is driving nearly all of the U.S. population growth, and that if legal immigration does not decline, the population will reach an unprecedented 400 million people by 2060. .
A majority of Republican voters (51%) say the U.S. should slow population growth due to immigration, and 26% say the U.S. should stop population growth due to immigration altogether.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Please email jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
