In the poll of U.S. adults' thoughts on immigration, many expressed romanticism about the past and skepticism about it today.
A woman from Venezuela is comforted by her daughter as she cries while retelling her journey to reach El Paso, Texas, on April 2, 2024. Photo: Christian Monterrosa/AFP via Getty Imagessay they believe people who are trying to immigrate to the U.S. today have "worse character" than those who came 50 years ago, according to a new Axios Vibes survey byIn the poll of U.S.
García says many Americans today erroneously believe that previous generations of immigrants assimilated and the country was welcoming. The study of history doesn't bear that out, she adds.worried that immigrants of German ancestry would overwhelm America and change its most basic virtues by introducing beer and the amusement park to American culture.
Immigrants from Eastern Europe in the early 20th Century were accused of speaking too many foreign languages and failing to abandon their old customs. Since the 1980s, immigrants have been moving to all 50 states, creating a new backlash, Michele Waslin of the University of Minnesota's Immigration History Research Center tells Axios.
"We're very proud of our immigrant past, and our own family's immigrant heritage. At the same time, the U.S. is a nation of xenophobia and always has been."The sampling precision of Harris online polls is measured by using a Bayesian credible interval. For this study, the data for this population is accurate to within +/- 1.5 percentage points using a 95% confidence level.
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