Almost 70% of Americans say the United States would benefit from new restrictions on immigration at the southern border, according to a survey report. economist/YouGov Opinion poll of 1,671 people.
The Feb. 11-13 poll asked, “If Congress passes new legislation restricting new immigration at the border, do you think it would be good or bad for the United States?” ” he asked.
69% of Americans said they thought it would be good, but only 14% expected it to be bad.
The results show that for every one American who believes immigration restrictions are harmful, five Americans believe they benefit the United States.
The new national consensus on southern immigration comes after President Joe Biden and Democrats vigorously supported a Senate bill that proposed significantly curbing the massive wave of southern immigration.
The Democratic proposal was a deceptive 2024 campaign promise. In fact, the Senate bill was so fraudulent, pro-immigration, and biased that it was killed on February 7 by a revolt by populist-leaning Republican senators.
But Democratic rhetoric on immigration restrictions inadvertently gives Americans an opportunity to publicly support restrictions on legal and illegal immigration that they have privately supported.
Many Americans, especially politically apathetic Americans, hide their personal concerns about mass immigration beneath a benevolent reception of individual immigrants. Often this silence is caused by a reluctance to publicly challenge the establishment’s “nation of immigrants” narrative that has been imposed on children and adults since the Cold War-era 1960s. .
But that silence reflects Biden’s increasingly unpopular refusal to enforce border laws and his welcoming of more than 6 million immigrants, who are cutting wages and raising rents. broken by. For example, just 11% of YouGov respondents said they “strongly approve” of Biden’s border policies, while 57% strongly disapprove.
President Joe Biden and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
A new willingness to openly oppose immigration can also be seen in the latest YouGov poll. Only 17 percent of respondents avoided the question, “Is it good or bad for the United States?” Ask a question by declaring that you don’t know how to answer the survey question.
In a new YouGov poll, all groups say curbing immigration is good for the US.
For example, by a 57 percent to 29 percent margin, self-described liberals believe that restraint is good for the country.
88% of those who plan to vote for Donald Trump in 2024 and a majority of 55% of those who plan to vote for Joe Biden welcomed the curbs. Only one in five Biden voters (20%) said curbs would have negative outcomes.
60% of independent swing voters believe that restraint is good for America, compared with 49% of liberals, 69% of “moderates,” 66% of Hispanics, 53% of blacks, and white Americans. The same goes for 73% of the system.
Young people, who are most likely to be welcoming of immigrants, also voted strongly in favor of the new restrictions, with 57% saying they were good and just 22% saying they were bad.
Additionally, polls show that Democrats believe restraint measures will help Biden more than Trump.
The survey also asked whether a border fence would benefit Mr. Biden. Fifty-four percent of Democrats and 47% of liberals said curbs would benefit him.
When asked whether restraining measures would benefit Mr. Trump, only 36% of Democrats and 39% of liberals said such measures would benefit Mr. Trump.
Forty percent of Americans say immigration makes U.S. politics better, and 13% say immigration makes U.S. politics worse.
A new report from the Congressional Budget Office adds to the growing body of evidence that the federal government’s rural migration policies shift family wages and workplace investments. wall streetReal Estate, Coastal States, Government.
This economic policy is extremely unpopular, in part because it diverts politicians’ attention away from American society and the increasing number of “deaths of despair” among Americans. abandoned american.
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