Poll: For The First Time, A Majority Of Americans Say, “Build The Wall”
From Tampa Free Press
Article By Liam Edgar, Original Publish Date: February 27, 2024
For the first time ever, a majority of Americans want a wall. A new poll by Monmouth University showed 53% of respondents want a wall along the southern border.
On the other hand, 46% opposed it.
The Washington Free Beacon reported Monday, “It is the first time a Monmouth poll has found majority support for the measure since the group began surveying respondents on it in September 2015.”
“Support at the time was 48 percent. In the past nine years, support for the wall has grown among Republicans and independents but fallen among Democrats.”
The pollster indicated how wildly unpopular Biden’s policies have become.
In a press release, Monmouth noted that support for a wall never topped 44% when former President Donald Trump was in office, and at one point reached a low of 35%.
“Compared to public opinion nine years ago,” Monmouth noted in its release, “support for building a border wall has increased by 13 points among Republicans (from 73% to 86%) and 11 points among independents (from 47% to 58%), but it has declined by 14 points among Democrats (from 31% to 17%).”
The pollster also noted that Trump’s ideas are prevailing in other ways.
Sixty-one percent say immigrants seeking political asylum at the southern border should be forced to stay in Mexico as their cases go through the system. That was up 10 points in the last five years.
Roughly 32% say illegal immigrants are more likely than other Americans to commit violent crimes, such as rape or murder. That result was up 11 points from 2019 and 17% in 2015).
Monmouth also asked about the Senate’s supposed bipartisan fix to the nation’s immigration crisis that Biden has been relentlessly pushing for two weeks.
Overall, 47% of respondents say this border bill is “not tough enough” in dealing with illegal immigration, compared to 28% who said it is just right, and 12% actually felt it was too tough.
“These results illustrate why the border deal was dead on arrival,” Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute, said in a statement.
“The vast majority of rank and file Republicans and many independents believe it is too soft on illegal immigration, even if they don’t know exactly what’s in the legislation. Senate GOP leadership could have tried to sell the bill, but that would have almost certainly been fruitless once Donald Trump weighed in against it.”
“Illegal immigration has taken center stage as a defining issue this presidential election year,” Murray added. “Other Monmouth polling found this to be Biden’s weakest policy area, including among his fellow Democrats.”
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