Poll: Most GOP Voters Say U.S. Is ‘Worse Off’ with Current Immigration Inflow
A majority of Republican voters now say the current flow of legal and illegal immigration, where more than a million are added to the United States population annually, makes Americans “worse off” overall, a new poll finds.
A YouGov poll reveals that 56 percent of registered Republicans said immigration is making the U.S. “worse off,” while less than 2-in-10 Republicans said immigration is making the U.S. “better off.” About 15 percent said immigration has no impact.
Likewise, 62 percent of voters who supported former President Trump in the 2020 presidential election said immigration is making the U.S. “worse off,” while only 16 percent said the opposite.
Conservatives, similarly, said by a 54 percent majority that immigration is worse for Americans than it is better for the,m and a plurality of 36 percent of rural voters said the same. Even among swing voters, attitudes are split as 32 percent said they are “better off” with immigration while 30 percent said they are “worse off.”
Annually, the federal government awards permanent U.S. residency to about 1.2 million foreign nationals and temporary work visas to another million. In addition, President Joe Biden is adding roughly a million illegal aliens to the nation’s population every year.
Though Republican candidates have made illegal immigration a fixture of their campaigns, there has been little talk about legal immigration levels outside of GOP Senate candidates J.D. Vance in Ohio and Blake Masters in Arizona.
Republicans’ avoiding the issue of legal immigration levels, along with the resulting cost-of-living hikes, is evident in House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) “Commitment to America” plan which includes mandatory E-Verify to eliminate illegal hiring by companies.
The latest Rasmussen Reports survey shows 82 percent of Republican voters back mandatory E-Verify. The same survey, though, also shows similar wide majorities for reductions to legal immigration across the board.
“Which is closest to the number of new immigrants the government should be adding each year — fewer than 500,000, 750,000, one million, one and a half million, or more than one and a half million?” likely GOP voters were asked, to which 54 percent said they want fewer than half a million legal immigration admissions a year.
Meanwhile, 74 percent of likely Republican voters said they want to see the process known as “chain migration” — whereby newly naturalized citizens can bring an unlimited number of foreign relatives to the U.S. — eliminated entirely, and 72 percent said they want most white-collar legal immigration cut.
The YouGov poll surveyed nearly 1,500 American adults from September 17 to September 20 and has a margin of error of +/- 2.9 percentage points. The Rasmussen Reports survey included 1,250 likely U.S. voters from August 28 to September 1 and has a margin of error of +/- 3 percentage points.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
Vice President Kamala Harris, who received widespread criticism for not going to the U.S.-Mexico border, is traveling almost 7,000 miles away to a different border—the Demilitarized Zone that separates North and South Korea.
Harris, who is ostensibly in charge of the immigration crisis at the United States' southern border, is already in Asia. She will travel to the DMZ as a show of support for U.S. troops in the region.
The vice president has been to the U.S.-Mexico border only once, in June 2021, even as the number of illegal immigrants reaches unprecedented highs. Two million migrants illegally crossed into the United States in this fiscal year, the Washington Free Beacon reported. After Harris was blasted for laughing through questions about the crisis, she toured a border patrol station in El Paso, hundreds of miles from where most migrants are crossing.
"You don't go to El Paso to see what is actually going on at the border," National Border Patrol Council president Brandon Judd told Fox News.
While the crisis has worsened, Harris this month repeated the administration's claim that "the border is secure." One Democrat, Texas representative Henry Cuellar, said last year that "it doesn't look like she's very interested in" policing the border.
WATCH: 17 Times the Biden Administration Said the Border Is Secure
Meanwhile, DHS reports a record 2.5 million immigrant encounters in 2022
The unanticipated arrival of 50 illegal immigrants to Martha's Vineyard, the elite liberal vacation hotspot and site of former president Barack Obama's $12 million mansion, forced the mainstream media to talk about the humanitarian crisis on the U.S. southern border. While most professional pundits were outraged that Gov. Ron DeSantis (R., Fla.) would dare to defile their favorite island getaway—which apparently lacks the infrastructure to support an extra 50 people—the Department of Homeland Security reported a record 2.5 million immigration encounters on the southern border for fiscal year 2022.
The immigration crisis persists despite the Biden administration's repeated efforts to ensure the American people that our southern border is secure. Vice President Kamala Harris, who has on several occasions burst out laughing when asked about the border situation, keeps insisting that everything is under control. "We have a secure border," she told NBC's Chuck Todd last week. "The border is secure." President Joe Biden's secretary of homeland security, Alejandro Mayorkas, has repeatedly claimed the administration is doing everything in its power to stop the influx of illegal immigration. These dubious statements have been dutifully echoed by White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.
Alas, Democratic administrations have a history of repeating falsehoods for political gain. Just ask anyone who was duped into believing former president Barack Obama's promise that everyone would be able to keep their doctors under the Obamacare regime.
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