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Press Release

 

For Immediate Release  
Contact: Dan Gordon <mailto:[email protected]>,
617-651-0841 
March 8, 2023

**New Poll: Americans Value Offering Refuge, Welcome**

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**Also, Americans Still Overwhelmingly Want Border, Immigration
Reforms** 

**WASHINGTON, D.C.** - By large margins, voters continue to support
immigration reforms that strengthen border security, offer a solution
for immigrants brought to the U.S. as children, and help farmers and
ranchers. 

In addition, voters think the U.S. should be a refuge for people fleeing
persecution and torture, and believe that welcoming newcomers is an
American value. 

In new polling from the National Immigration Forum and the Bullfinch
Group, 76% of registered voters said they'd support "Republicans and
Democrats working together on immigration reforms that strengthen border
security, allow immigrants brought to the United States as children to
earn citizenship, and ensure a legal, reliable workforce for America's
farmers and ranchers." Only 14% opposed.  

Support vs. opposition also is eye-opening among self-identified
Republican voters (74%-16%) and white evangelical Protestants (79%-9%),
with the remainder saying they were unsure. 

Strong majorities also said they would support "the U.S. providing
refuge for individuals and families fleeing serious persecution and
torture" (68%-20% overall, 55%-35% among Republicans) and would agree
"that welcoming newcomers to our communities is an American value"
(71%-20% overall, 58%-33% among Republicans). 

Full crosstabs are available for the survey of 1,000 registered voters
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and for a larger group comprising American adults
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among whom results are similar. 

"The desire to welcome immigrants remains strong," said

**Jennie Murray, President and CEO of the National Immigration Forum**.
"So does the need. When Republicans and Democrats come together to find
solutions for border security, Dreamers and the farm workforce,
they'll do so with support from their voters. 

"More and more Americans want the kinds of solutions Congress began to
discuss late last year. The administration and Congress should work
together in 2023 to make those solutions reality. Americans understand
that security and compassion can and should stand side by side."

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**The National Immigration Forum, in conjunction with The Bullfinch
Group, conducted a nationwide online survey fielded Feb. 17-22, 2023,
among 1,200 adults, of whom 1,000 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 margin of error for registered**

**voters is ±3.1% at the 95% confidence interval. The margin of error
for adults is ± 2.83% at the 95% confidence interval.  **

 

 

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