Iowa poll finds state divided on immigration

[pampango]

Source: Chicago Tribune

A new poll from The Des Moines Register shows 50 percent of Iowans believe the state should encourage people from other countries to move to Iowa. In the poll published Thursday in a copyrighted story in the newspaper, 41 percent of Iowans said they would discourage newcomers.

The poll also found 66 percent of Iowans favor passing an Arizona-like Immigration law that would require local police to check legal residency of those stopped for other offenses. The poll shows strong support for that among tea party supporters, Republicans, born-again Christians and those who support GOP gubernatorial candidate Terry Branstad.

The Selzer & Co. of Des Moines telephone poll of 803 Iowa adults was done from Sept. 18 to 22 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.


Read more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-ia-iowapoll-immigrat,0,4918896.story

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Reassuring that more Iowans "believe the state should encourage people from other countries to move to Iowa" than those who would discourage new immigrants.

[ProudDad]

1. New Poll shows that the survivors of

the Chippewa, Dakota, Foxes, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Moingwena, Omaha, Oto, Ottawa, Peoria, Ponca, Ptawatomi, Sauk and Winnebago tribes who occupied Iowa until the White Man came...

Would like the White Man to leave now...