Americans oppose building a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico by a narrow 4-point margin (46% support, 50% oppose). In the same survey, approval of Trump is just 41%, meaning the wall could provide the president a tool to win over skeptics if progressives don’t make their case. However, […] Read more »
Support for Allowing Border Refugees Into U.S. Edges Up
Americans are slightly more likely now (57%) than in December of last year (51%) to support allowing refugees from Central America into the U.S. … Support for allowing Central American refugees entry is now higher than Gallup has found for most refugee cases it has polled on historically, including Syrian […] Read more »
Unauthorized immigrants face public backlash in Mexico, survey finds
Mexicans are deeply frustrated with immigrants after a year of heightened migration from Central America through the country, according to a survey conducted by The Washington Post and Mexico’s Reforma newspaper. More than 6 in 10 Mexicans say migrants are a burden on their country because they take jobs and […] Read more »
CNN Poll: Three-quarters of Americans say there’s a crisis at the border
Nearly three-quarters of Americans say the situation at the southern border with Mexico is a crisis (74%), up from less than half who felt that way in January (45%), according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS. The steep increase comes most sharply among Democrats, though there are increases […] Read more »
Immigration and the 2020 Elections
On behalf of the Immigration Hub, Global Strategy Group conducted an online survey of 1500 likely 2020 presidential election voters in battleground states and 1526 likely 2020 Democratic presidential primary election voters nationwide between June 14th and June 20th, 2019. Trump is vulnerable on immigration, but that does not automatically […] Read more »
Who Says Foreign Policy Doesn’t Win Elections?
Rolling into the 2020 election, President Donald Trump is bound to tout his record on foreign policy as a resounding success. While he hasn’t built a wall and expensed it to Mexico, he has followed through on pledges to withdraw from the Iran nuclear agreement and the Paris climate accord, […] Read more »