In Shocking Turn of Events, Gallup Poll Shows Americans Less Favorable to Immigration – By Ward Clark (Red State) / July 19, 2023
Immigration is sure to be one of the hot-button issues that will help decide the 2024 Presidential election. RedStater Jeff Charles recently informed us as to how the issue is affecting the primary race, and as RedState’s own Ben Kew chronicles, the states are stepping up to do border security work that the Biden Administration won’t do. Those battle lines are already being drawn.
Now a Gallup poll, analyzed by The Center for Immigration Study’s Andrew R. Arthur, shows us that, yes, Americans still support immigration in general, but the numbers are shifting.
The first topic Gallup examines comes in response to the question: “On the whole, do you think immigration is a good thing or a bad thing for this country today?”
Of the respondents polled, 68 percent stated that immigration is a good thing, while 27 percent opined that it was a bad thing. You can count me among the latter group, but then Gallup wasn’t asking me.
In any event, that is the lowest percentage of respondents who believe immigration is a good thing since June 2014, when just 63 percent of those polled answered that immigration was a good thing, compared to 33 percent who believed it was a bad thing.
