Immigration

Dept: For the first time since the question was asked in 2002, the bi-annual survey found that more Americans support keeping immigration at present levels 42 per cent than favor reducing the number of immigrants admitted 37 per cent , according to Globe and Mail. The number of Americans who support expanding legal immigration more than doubled over the past decade from seven percent to 18 per cent and meanwhile, the number of respondents who said that controlling and reducing immigration was a very important foreign policy goal fell to 53 per cent from 59 perc ent in 2010, down from a peak of 72 per cent in 1994. This is a striking change in opinion from ten years ago when six in ten Americans favored decreasing immigration levels, the council said in a press release. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.