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For the first time since Gallup began asking in 1965, more Americans say immigration should be increased rather than decreased.
Immigration is supposed to be Trump's signature issue; yet he's on the wrong side of it. https://news.gallup.com/poll/313106/americans-not-less-immigration-first-time.aspx?utm_source=twitterbutton&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=sharing
Immigration is supposed to be Trump's signature issue; yet he's on the wrong side of it. https://news.gallup.com/poll/313106/americans-not-less-immigration-first-time.aspx?utm_source=twitterbutton&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=sharing
Other polls too suggest Trump's xenophobia and nativist policies are opposed by most Americans.
Majority have disapproved of Trump’s handling of immigration throughout his presidency, according to surveys from Gallup, CNN-SSRS and CBS News https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/on-daca-the-supreme-court-just-saved-trump-from-himself/2020/06/18/970dacd8-b192-11ea-8758-bfd1d045525a_story.html
Majority have disapproved of Trump’s handling of immigration throughout his presidency, according to surveys from Gallup, CNN-SSRS and CBS News https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/on-daca-the-supreme-court-just-saved-trump-from-himself/2020/06/18/970dacd8-b192-11ea-8758-bfd1d045525a_story.html
You’d never know it from Trump’s rhetoric, but the share of Americans who believe that immigrants strengthen, rather than burden, the United States has generally trended *upward* for the past decade
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/on-daca-the-supreme-court-just-saved-trump-from-himself/2020/06/18/970dacd8-b192-11ea-8758-bfd1d045525a_story.html https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/01/31/majority-of-americans-continue-to-say-immigrants-strengthen-the-u-s/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/on-daca-the-supreme-court-just-saved-trump-from-himself/2020/06/18/970dacd8-b192-11ea-8758-bfd1d045525a_story.html https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/01/31/majority-of-americans-continue-to-say-immigrants-strengthen-the-u-s/
Trump has completely suspended refugee admissions and gutted the U.S. asylum system. Meanwhile, 3/4 of Americans, including most Republicans, say that taking in refugees fleeing war and violence should be an important goal of U.S. immigration policy https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/on-daca-the-supreme-court-just-saved-trump-from-himself/2020/06/18/970dacd8-b192-11ea-8758-bfd1d045525a_story.html
Trump just suspended almost all employment-based immigration, to "protect US jobs." Meanwhile, 77% of Americans (& most Repubs) say immigrants mostly fill jobs Americans don’t want. 78% of Americans support encouraging high-skilled immigrants to work in US https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/on-daca-the-supreme-court-just-saved-trump-from-himself/2020/06/18/970dacd8-b192-11ea-8758-bfd1d045525a_story.html
Then there's DACA, which is overwhelmingly popular. Across more than a dozen polls, ~4 out of 5 Americans, including a strong majority of Republicans, support Dreamers. And yet even after a recent defeat at Supreme Court, Trump is STILL trying to end DACA https://americasvoice.org/press_releases/daca-poll-roundup-overwhelming-and-consistent-support-for-dreamers-and-daca-in-poll-after-poll/
US has long, ugly history of mistreatment of immigrants. (Ellis Island isn't a monument to immigration; it's monument to border control, as LES Tenement Museum prez @VogelMorris once told me.) But under Trump's tenure we seem to have become, if anything, more *pro*-immigrant
Another finding from that Gallup poll at top of this thread: Record-high share (77%) say immigration is good for the country. Among Repubs, share is 62% https://news.gallup.com/poll/313106/americans-not-less-immigration-first-time.aspx?utm_source=twitterbutton&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=sharing
Fair point. We've seen similar pattern with trade, Trump's other signature issue. As @scottlincicome has documented, Americans are generally pro-trade and have become more so under Trump. But the smaller, anti-trade crowd is louder & cares more https://twitter.com/MichaelGKagan/status/1278353559185092608
Link to @scottlincicome's analysis, which aggregates a ton of other useful poll data on positive views of/disinterest in trade https://www.cato.org/publications/free-trade-bulletin/protectionist-moment-wasnt-american-views-trade-globalization
