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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& #39;s signature issue; yet he& #39;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">https://news.gallup.com/poll/3131...
Immigration is supposed to be Trump& #39;s signature issue; yet he& #39;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">https://news.gallup.com/poll/3131...
Other polls too suggest Trump& #39;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">https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/...
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">https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/...
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.washingtonpost.com/opinions/... https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/01/31/majority-of-americans-continue-to-say-immigrants-strengthen-the-u-s/">https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank...
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.washingtonpost.com/opinions/... https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/01/31/majority-of-americans-continue-to-say-immigrants-strengthen-the-u-s/">https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank...
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">https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/...
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">https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/...
Then there& #39;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/">https://americasvoice.org/press_rel...
US has long, ugly history of mistreatment of immigrants. (Ellis Island isn& #39;t a monument to immigration; it& #39;s monument to border control, as LES Tenement Museum prez @VogelMorris once told me.) But under Trump& #39;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">https://news.gallup.com/poll/3131...
Fair point. We& #39;ve seen similar pattern with trade, Trump& #39;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">https://twitter.com/MichaelGK...
Link to @scottlincicome& #39;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">https://www.cato.org/publicati...
