POLL: Attitudes soften over children of illegal immigrants

USA TODAY:  …Findings released Wednesday by the public education advocacy group Phi Delta Kappa International (PDK) show that four in 10 Americans now favor “providing free public education, school lunches and other benefits” to children whose parents are in the USA illegally.

The poll finds that 41% favor such measures, up from 28% in 1995, the only other time PDK asked the question.

The findings, part of the group’s annual poll on public attitudes toward public schools, also finds “clear partisan divides” on the issue, with 65% of Democrats vs. 21% of Republicans favoring school funds for these kids. One in three (33%) independents support the idea…  (more)

EDITOR:  If they stay in the country, they will be working for most of their lives paying into Social Security so that the rest of us will have a bigger retirement check.  Keep in mind that our retirees will be growing while our work force is going to be shrinking without immigration.

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