From NPR, summarizing a Pew Research poll released last week in which 194 immigrants, mostly young Mexicans who live in the south, were asked about their views of the government:
About 32 percent of them said they're basically content with the federal government, while only 15 percent of native-born Americans said the same.
Thirty-one percent of immigrants said they trust the government of Washington always or most of the time, versus 21 percent of people born in the United States.
More than half of immigrant Americans said the federal government is affecting the way things are going positively; only 22 percent of those born in the U.S. said the same.
A commenter on the site named Mourice pretty much sums it up:
It's all in perspective. If you were born in America you have no appreciation (educational opportunities, public libraries, ready resources, freedom of movement) Americans just whine about everything, while those coming from other countries appreciate it because they came from countries that do not have these things. That's why I get ticked (ticked because I care not whining immaturity) when status quo America treats education, etc., etc. as something that they can just CUT. Budget cuts on things that make America America. When people from poor countries start seeing America as just like where they came from IT'S OVER FOR AMERICA. That's your real BEROMETER of America.
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