Are voters willing to support the public education funding needed to educate immigrants?
The profound change in the demographic makeup of the school population is due primarily to immigration. Immigrants make up twelve percent of the nation’s population, up from eleven percent in 2000, according to the Census Bureau’s 2006 American Community Survey. Close the door behind you The United States may be a nation of immigrants, but Americans have conflicting attitudes about immigration. In surveys, the public consistently makes a sharp distinction between legal and illegal immigrants, according to Public Agenda, a nonpartisan opinion research group. In addition, although six in 10 Americans say immigration is good for the country, other surveys show that about half of the public believe there are too many immigrants. The foreign born population in the United States peaked in 1890 at 14.8 percent of the total population and declined to a low of 4.7 percent in 1940, according to the Census Bureau’s “Historical Census Statistics on the Foreign-Born Population of the United States:
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