[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 12016]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               AMERICANS WANT LOWER LEVELS OF IMMIGRATION

  (Mr. SMITH of Texas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SMITH of Texas. Madam Speaker, a new Gallup poll has found that, 
by a 2 to 1 margin, Americans want to decrease immigration levels, not 
increase them. The recent survey shows that 41 percent of Americans 
support a decrease in immigration. Just 22 percent want it to go up.
  Only a minority, approximately one-quarter of Independents and 
Democrats expressed a desire to increase immigration, and a Rasmussen 
poll found that people earning under $30,000 support a reduction in 
immigration by a 3 to 1 margin.
  When is the President going to listen to the American people? They 
know that when a country has lost control of its borders, it has lost 
control of its future.

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