Significantly more U.S. adults than a year ago, 55% versus 41%, would like to see immigration to the U.S. decreased.
Honestly, I’m only surprised this swing hasn’t been bigger. There are douchebag political hacks in both parties implicitly and explicitly pushing a ton of bullshit about needing to secure our border and immigrant crime and nonsense like that because it’s an election year and playing to Americans’ worst impulses is all they know how to do. Besides that, our federal government has been unbelievably awful at getting any kind of aid to the city and county governments who have been sheltering migrants the same federal government prevents from working, so all that a lot of voters see is stressed out mayors giving tense press conferences about budget crises and migrants standing in bread lines. If we wanted to build a perfect scenario to make Americans hate migrants we couldn’t have done much better.
Honestly, I’m only surprised this swing hasn’t been bigger. There are douchebag political hacks in both parties implicitly and explicitly pushing a ton of bullshit about needing to secure our border and immigrant crime and nonsense like that because it’s an election year and playing to Americans’ worst impulses is all they know how to do. Besides that, our federal government has been unbelievably awful at getting any kind of aid to the city and county governments who have been sheltering migrants the same federal government prevents from working, so all that a lot of voters see is stressed out mayors giving tense press conferences about budget crises and migrants standing in bread lines. If we wanted to build a perfect scenario to make Americans hate migrants we couldn’t have done much better.