Latinos say government is doing a ‘bad job’ at the southern border but disagree with non-Latinos on solutions: Pew

New poll finds Latinos say they think the government is not doing enough to control immigration at the southern border, but non-Latinos say they think the U.S. should respond poorly Opinions are divided with Americans.

A Pew Research survey released Monday found that nearly three-quarters (74%) of Latino adults say the U.S. government has done a poor job handling the border situation, and the majority of Latino adults agree. slightly lower than the 81% of non-Latino adults who share it. View.

But Latinos and non-Latinos have very different views on how the United States should respond.

Latinos (57%) are more likely than non-Latinos (44%) to believe that border conditions would improve if the U.S. made it easier for asylum seekers to access jobs while they wait for their claims to be decided. There is a high possibility that the answer is yes.

Many of the stricter policy proposals are more accepted by non-Latinos than by Latinos.

Only 33% of Latinos say increasing deportations of illegal immigrants would improve conditions at the border, while 23% say they would worsen conditions at the border.

A majority of non-Latinos (55%) say more deportations would improve the situation, while 16% say it would make the situation worse.

A plurality of Latino Americans (43%) say they don’t think a major expansion of the wall along the Mexican border will change the border situation much, and 26% say they think the situation will improve. Of the respondents, 15% do not think there will be any major changes to the border situation. Those who say it will make the situation worse.

A plurality of non-Latinx residents (45%) said they think the situation would improve if the wall were expanded significantly, while 30% said expanding the wall would make no difference.

Nearly half (48%) of non-Latinos say the border situation would improve by imposing harsher penalties on companies that employ people who cannot legally work in the U.S. Only 28% were Latino.

The poll comes amid record migration at the southern border, with U.S. voters References to immigration are increasing That’s their biggest concern in an election year.

Former President Donald Trump, the Republican front-runner, has made immigration a key issue, promising “mass deportations” and the establishment of concentration camps if re-elected.

President Trump and likely Democratic nominee Biden both visited the southern border, where Biden urged Congress to pass legislation to address the border situation.

The Pew study involved 5,140 U.S. adults, including 879 Hispanics. The survey was conducted from January 16 to 21, 2024, and has a margin of error of plus or minus 1.7 percentage points.