A VERY interesting article, showing the things most people believe about immigration and how many of them are correct (not many). Many change their opinions when they find the true story. - - Donna Poisl
By EBEN HARRELL
From Arizona to Amsterdam, immigration remains one of the most contentious and divisive debates for Americans and Europeans alike. It is also, it seems, a debate fueled by large-scale misconceptions on both sides of the Atlantic. A new survey released Thursday has found that Americans and Europeans both tend to greatly overestimate the immigrant population in their home countries — but, when armed with accurate population figures, they hold significantly more lenient views towards migrants.
In the U.S., for instance, the average resident believes that 39% of the U.S. population was born abroad; the real figure is less than 14%.
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