Another day, another lie about immigration.
Gallup released a new poll on Monday showing that support for increased levels of legal immigration had grown from 24 percent in 2014 to 25 percent this year.
While a majority of Americans support keeping current immigration levels or decreasing them — 40 percent support the current level and 34 percent support a reduction — the poll showed that a growing minority want to open the borders to new immigrants.
The strongest supporters of mass immigration are Hispanics born in the U.S. They support increasing legal immigration by six more points than foreign-born Latinos, 39 percent to 33 percent respectively.
An additional 30 percent of blacks and 21 percent of whites support increasing legal immigration.
But despite the poll’s claims that demand for legal immigration is on the rise, the poll has a staggering flaw in their sample size.
The poll was conducted with a random sample of 2,296 adults made up of 857 non-Hispanic whites, 802 non-Hispanic blacks, and 508 Hispanics. Those numbers in no way make up an accurate sample of the American public or American voters.
In the 2012 presidential election, 72 percent of all voters were non-Hispanic white, 13 percent were non-Hispanic black, and 10 percent were Hispanic.
This poll’s demographic composition is 37 percent non-Hispanic white, 35 percent non-Hispanic black, and 22 percent Hispanic.
The groups that support increasing legal immigration are highly oversampled, while the group most likely to want a reduction in immigration levels is under sampled.
All of this makes the poll just yet another study in how the facts about immigration are constantly being manipulated.
