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Swordsmyth
08-02-2017, 01:38 PM
Roughly sixty percent of surveyed respondents want to stop all legal and illegal immigration, says a pair of sophisticated polls which allowed people to speak their mind without fear of progressives’ hate.
The polls of white Americans also showed that American college graduates are even more opposed to immigration than the average American, flipping the commonplace claim that people with additional years of education are more welcoming of divide-and-rule diversity than are blue-collar Americans.
The little-known 2010 report also showed that almost three-of-four white liberals hide their preference for zero immigration. According to the survey, which was conducted in 2005:

Political liberals are considerably more likely than moderates or conservatives to conceal support for immigration restrictionism. While 26 percent of liberals claim to support cutting off immigration in response to a direct question, 71 percent of liberals [when asked indirectly] support immigration restrictionism.
The second poll was conducted in 2010 and was published in 2014. It showed similar opposition to any and all immigration — plus a greater willingness by employed Americans to reveal their opposition.

More at: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/08/01/surveys-show-60-percent-opposition-immigration/

The longer the flood is unrestrained the greater the odds of an over reaction, if you believe in immigration you must control it.

TheCount
08-02-2017, 02:41 PM
Why is Breitbart quoting a graduate student's paper from 2010 which used a survey conducted in 2005?

Also, their numbers are wrong, they misread the guy's paper and flipped two columns. 42% of people said that they supported cutting off immigration to the United States. That's the 'obtrusive' number. The other number, 61%, were not asked that question.
http://media.breitbart.com/media/2017/08/Screen-Shot-2017-07-25-at-1.31.35-PM.png

Swordsmyth
08-02-2017, 02:44 PM
Why is Breitbart quoting a graduate student's paper from 2010 which used a survey conducted in 2005?

Also, their numbers are wrong, they misread the guy's paper and flipped two columns. 42% of people said that they supported cutting off immigration to the United States. That's the 'obtrusive' number. The other number, 61%, were not asked that question.
http://media.breitbart.com/media/2017/08/Screen-Shot-2017-07-25-at-1.31.35-PM.png

Even if you were right that is a huge percentage, and the numbers will only get worse the longer the problem goes unchecked.

TheCount
08-02-2017, 02:49 PM
Even if you were right that is a huge percentage, and the numbers will only get worse the longer the problem goes unchecked.

The fact that they're cherry picking some shit from over a decade ago means they're really, really stretching to find data to support their conclusion. The survey wasn't even conducted for this paper, he's digging around in crosstabs of someone else's data to pick out just the numbers that he wants. If they actually thought this, they could pay a reputable polling company to do polls on the topic for them. More likely, they already did that and didn't get the numbers that they wanted, and so they hunted around and found this guy's paper.

They even quote the author in the article:


I would be cautious about drawing too much from the results of this study. Respondents could have had different interpretations of the immigration item. Does ‘immigration’ refer to legal or undocumented immigration? My sense is that one of the most divisive issues is what to do about the people who are already in this country illegally, but we do not ask about this. Additional studies that use alternative methodologies that control for social desirability or that use alternative immigration questions are clearly needed.


But I bet that you didn't make it that far into the text. That's probably what Breitbart is counting on.