Walt has long maintained that there is a huge disconnect between what the average Briton, American or Canadian thinks about immigration and what our "leaders", the left-liberal press and the chattering classes tell us we should think.
Many religious leaders are lobbying for increases in immigration numbers. But a new Zogby poll of U.S. voters who belong to religious communities finds strong support for reducing overall immigration.
Here's another shocker. Joe Sixpack strongly disagrees with opinion-makers' arguments that we need more immigrants. And they believe that the illegals who are already here in their 1000s should be sent back where they came from, pronto!
Among lay Catholics, 78% said that inadequate enforcement, rather than strict quotas, was the main cause of illegal immigration. According to 69% of the Catholics surveyed, immigration is now too high; only 4% thought it was too low, while 14% were happy with the current level.
The survey of mainline Catholics and Protestants, evangelical Protestants and Jewish voters was one of the largest polls on immigration ever published. Our governments are, of course, doing their own polling, but draw the veil of secrecy over the findings lest people find out their immigration "policies" are a big black crock.
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