Public Agenda Foundation Poll: Now That I'm Here--What America’s Immigrants Have to Say About Life in the U.S. Today

Public Agenda’s 2002 Foundation Poll: Now That I'm Here--What America’s Immigrants Have to Say About Life in the U.S. Today examines the opinions of foreign-born U.S. adults.

Includes questions on What country born in (1); what year came to U.S. to live (1); happy/ disappointed with life in U.S. (1); would/would not choose to come to U.S. again (1); amount of money respondent had when first came to this country (1); U.S. will/will not be permanent home (1); consider self American/keep own traditions (2); biggest reason came to the U.S. to live (1); most important thing about living in the U.S. (1); discrimination against immigrants living in U.S. (2); think living in U.S. is easy/hard (1); U.S. vs. country where respondent was born (11); hardest thing when first came to U.S. to live (2); knowledge of English (10); agree/disagree with statements about life in U.S. (9); uniqueness of U.S. (1); think U.S. is too open/closed to immigrants (1); issues facing immigrants (2); expectations of immigrants coming to the U.S. (7); citizenship status (13); most immigrants respondent knows are here legally/illegally (1); Immigration and Naturalization Service (10); September 11th (5); ties kept to country where respondent was born (4); health insurance (1); food stamps (1); ever received charity donations (1); ever volunteered time/contributed money to an organization or church in community (1); military service (1); likelihood of respondent's children wanting to live in country where respondent was born (1); any of respondent's children born in U.S. (1).