The Real Story of Americans’ Immigration Views

Americans support legal immigration and oppose illegal immigration.

But another picture often emerges from the chattering class. Americans’ opposition to illegal immigration is wrongly described as opposition to immigration itself

Immigration is America’s most contentious of unresolved issues. The public remains divided over aspects of the issue. They do, however, understand the issue. Yet all too often Americans’ fairly sophisticated view of immigration is simplified. And that simplification tends to skew the facts.http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/04/18/the_real_story_of_americans_immigration_views__105217.htmlBy David Paul Kuhn — Real Clear Politics