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Why Has Immigration Become Such a Divisive Issue?
Why has immigration become such a heated issue for those on the right and the left? It’s because many Americans have without realizing it sacralized their values and beliefs associated with immigration.
This explains in part why the debate has become uncompromising and moralized. What can we do about it?
Answers can be found in a new report produced by the Center for Inclusion and Belonging at the American Immigration Council and Over Zero, “What Immigration Issues Do Americans Hold Sacred? A Psychological Journey into American Attitudes Towards Immigrants.”
This report and the behavioral survey upon which it is based overcome the limitations of traditional polling by digging deeper into how respondents think about immigration issues, and why they feel the way that they do.