A June 2024 report by a church-related research team found that a majority of Catholics want to see less immigration, contradicting the bishops’ active support for President Joe Biden’s mass immigration.
Of 1,342 Catholics surveyed, 43 percent said they wanted to reduce the influx. summary Apostolic Applied Research Center (Kara) at Georgetown University.
Even though 37% of respondents identified as Latino and 41% as Democrats, only 23% favored increasing immigration, and only 30% identified as Republicans.
Twenty-three percent said they wanted to see more immigration, while 34% wanted it to remain at current levels.
Only 1 in 5 people He told the pollster They saw migration as a purely positive thing.
One of the CARA pollsters I have written:
Respondents generally say that, although there are exceptions, immigrants make things worse. Areas where immigrants are seen as making things worse are crime (56% worse, 7% better), taxes (50% worse, 15% better), the economy in general (48% worse, 24% better), and social and moral values (38% worse, 21% better). A majority (40%) see immigrants as having little effect on employment opportunities for themselves or their family. However, only 39% of respondents say immigrants improve American food, music and art, compared with 16% who say they have made it worse.
“Among those who believe immigration is good for the country, Democrats (28%) and 18-34 year olds (27%) are most likely to say that immigration is bad for the country. Among those who believe immigration is bad for the country, Republicans are most likely to say that they are bad for the country (34%),” pollster Mark Gray said.
The headline of his report was:Poll: U.S. Catholics divided on immigration, despite knowledge of Church teaching.”
The pope and his U.S. representative, Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York, have repeatedly complained about growing Catholic backlash against immigrants. Orthodox Muslim — in their homes.
“Those people [New York] The diocese fought back and said, “Absolutely not, we don’t have them here,” Dolan complained in December 2023, when the polls were running.
Dolan understands the problem because his Catholic organization helps fly, feed and shelter immigrants in American neighborhoods, despite the economic, wallet, housing and criminal costs to Americans.
But he denied the criticism was prejudice, claiming that he and other bishops had received “hate letters saying, ‘We’ve had enough of you bishops obsessing over immigration. We’re not going to support you anymore.'”
“I’m honored to receive criticism and slander for advocating for immigrants,” he said.
In recent months, numerous reports have revealed that the Church-backed, Progressive-led immigration influx has left many Americans and thousands of immigrants dead and caused enormous economic harm to ordinary Americans, including the parishioners who fund the churches.
Pope Francis made immigration a central theme in his Christmas blessing on Wednesday, bringing it up three times in his 865-word message. https://t.co/cavyQu5x30
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The church poll was skewed to maximize support for the bishops’ pro-immigration policies, conducted on Christmas Day 2023, and provided little to no information about the mass influx of pro-Biden immigrants.
A December Harvard/Harris poll showed that 67% of Republicans and 87% of Democrats believe fewer than 1 million people will migrate to the South in 2022. A third of Republicans and a quarter of Democrats believe fewer than 250,000 will migrate, when in fact the actual number is more than 10 times higher, or about 3 million.
The survey also included a broad range of Catholics, many of whom are less religious: 28% said they “rarely or never” attend Mass, and another 28% said they attend Mass “several times a year.” Forty-seven percent said they are not involved in parish life at all.
The poll sheds light on public opposition to “extractive immigration,” a federal economic policy.
In New York, 62% of Catholics see legal immigration as a burden, while only 27% see it as a benefit, according to an October poll by Siena College. The New York Times.
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Shortly after Arab immigrants took to the streets of New York in October 2023 to celebrate the murder of more than 1,000 Israeli Jews, a majority of New York Jews, 52 percent, told Siena College that migration is a burden.
Since the October 2023 attacks and the cheering that followed, the usual support for immigrants from pro-immigration Jewish leaders has been silent.
““I’m always amazed that there aren’t enough leaders in the Jewish community who say immigration is our problem.” Ruth Messinger, a prominent Jewish politician in New York Hospitalized She added to Israel’s Haaretz newspaper:
[I’m] I’m surprised there aren’t more people like that, more people in leadership positions in the Jewish community who say things like, “My family came here looking for a new place to live. America has provided refuge for many Jews at different times over the last few hundred years. By the way, there were times when it didn’t, but we would like to be a more welcoming country.”
A majority of Americans say immigration is an invasion because they reject the Cold War-era claim that the United States is a “nation of immigrants.”
