Family Immigration Has Growing Support
From CBS News:
Forty-six percent of Americans prefer the U.S. give priority to immigrants based on education, job skills and work experience, while 44 percent think those with family members here should be given priority.
When the CBS News poll last asked this question in 2013, nearly six in 10 thought priority should be given based on education and work skills.
Indicative of how opinions are often shaped by partisanship these days, this shift in opinion is largely due to changing views among Democrats (and independents). Now, more than half of Democrats (54 percent) think family members should have priority but four years ago a majority (57 percent) thought entry in the U.S. should be based mostly on education and work skills. Republicans’ views have held steady with most saying preference should be based on education and work skills.
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