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Press Release

 

For Immediate Release
Contact: Dan Gordon , 617-651-0841
Aug. 30, 2022

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**Americans Want Immigration Reforms That Address Food Prices, Labor
Shortages, Border**

** In New Poll, Large Majorities Support Action This Year**   

**WASHINGTON, D.C. **- Nearly 4 in 5 of American adults (77%) want
Democrats and Republicans to work together this year on immigration
reforms that could reduce food prices by helping America's farmers.

Along with a strong majority of overall support, the survey this month
of 1,200 adults, including 1,000 registered voters, found support across
the political ideological spectrum: More than 75% of conservatives,
moderates and liberals supported "Republicans and Democrats working
together this year on reforms that could help lower food prices by
ensuring a legal, reliable workforce for America's farmers and
ranchers."

In addition, more than 70% across these ideological groups support
"Republicans and Democrats working together this year on improving legal
immigration options that could address labor shortages and reduce
pressures at the border."

Notable in addition to the support was the disparity between support and
opposition among respondents overall: by a 66-point margin (support to
opposition) on the first question, and roughly a 55-point margin on the
second. Additional questions revealed that well over 60% of respondents
think such reforms

**would**help address these challenges.

The National Immigration Forum and Americans for Prosperity worked with
The Bullfinch Group to include these questions.

"Americans recognize that immigration reforms this year can help address
some of our most pressing challenges," said

**Dan Gordon, Vice President of Strategic Communications at the National
Immigration Forum**. "All Americans will benefit when Democrats and
Republicans reach solutions that address the border, agriculture and
legal-immigration processes that honor the contributions of immigrants
already here."

"At a time when prices continue to surge, Washington has an opportunity
to bring relief to the American public by modernizing and strengthening
our country's agricultural workforce," said

**Jorge Lima, Senior Vice President of Policy at Americans for
Prosperity**. "This latest poll confirms what the American people have
been consistently saying for years: Lawmakers need to put partisan
politics aside and fix our country's broken immigration system.

"They can start now by ensuring that our farmers have a reliable
workforce to draw from in order to meet labor demands. We urge lawmakers
to bring relief to the American people today."

Polling crosstabs are available for all adults

and for registered voters
.

The new poll follows a February survey

in which nearly 4 in 5 registered voters said they would support the two
parties "working together on immigration reforms that strengthen border
security, create a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants
who came to the United States as children, and ensure a legal, reliable
workforce for America's farmers and ranchers."

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**The National Immigration Forum and Americans for Prosperity in
conjunction with The Bullfinch Group conducted a nationwide online
survey fielded Aug. 5-8, 2022, among 1,208 adults, of whom 1,008
respondents were registered voters. Sampling controls were used to
ensure that a proportional and representative number of respondents were
interviewed from demographic groups such as age, gender, political
affiliation, race, and geographic region. The overall margin of error is
±2.82% at the 95% confidence interval for overall survey. The margin of
error for registered voters is ±3.09% at the 95% confidence interval.**

 

 

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