• Thirty-seven percent of Americans say social and moral values have declined due to immigrants.
  • Hispanic participants disagree with non-Hispanic whites and blacks in almost every category of the survey by holding a more positive view of immigrant impact on American society.
• More than six of ten Americans surveyed said the issue of illegal immigration is "extremely" or "very" important to them.  
  • Thirty-five percent said it is "extremely" important
• Twenty-nine percent of Americans think immigration should be the top government priority.
  • This belief came in ahead of other popular issues such as healthcare (23 percent) and the general state of the economy (10 percent).
  • Immigration came in second only behind Iraq, which 63 percent of Americans say should be the government’s top priority.

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