US Americans Want More, Not Less, Immigration for First Time - According to Gallup; growth driven by Democrats and Independents

JULY 1, 2020
Americans Want More, Not Less, Immigration for First Time
BY MOHAMED YOUNIS

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• 34% would like to see immigration to the U.S. increased
• 28% would like to see immigration to U.S. decreased
• Democrats (50%) most likely to want increase in immigration

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Thirty-four percent of Americans, up from 27% a year ago, would prefer to see immigration to the U.S. increased. This is the highest support for expanding immigration Gallup has found in its trend since 1965. Meanwhile, the percentage favoring decreased immigration has fallen to a new low of 28%, while 36% think it should stay at the present level.

This marks the first time in Gallup's trend that the percentage wanting increased immigration has exceeded the percentage who want decreased immigration.

These results are from a Gallup poll conducted May 28-June 4 and predate the Donald Trump administration's recent decision to halt issuing any new H-1B and other worker visas through the end of the year. It also preceded the Supreme Court's recent ruling that invalidated the Trump administration's action to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Act, which offers legal protection for undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children. In terms of a public focus, the topic of immigration may have currently taken a sideline to issues of race relations, but just two years ago, Americans cited it as the most important problem facing the country.

Desire for More Immigrants Rises Among Democrats and Independents
Support for increased immigration is at historic highs this year among both Democrats and political independents. Republicans' views on increasing immigration have not changed much over the past decade. The rise among Democrats and independents coincides with a period of time when Republican leadership has attempted to limit immigration via physical barriers or changes to visa restrictions and de jure bans of immigrants from over 10 countries.

Most Say Immigration Is Good for America
Nearly 8 in ten (77%) Americans think immigration is a good thing for their country. When measured in this more general sense, public support for immigration shows far less of a partisan divide, and both parties express a more generally positive view of immigration.

Bottom Line
Gallup's 2020 update on Americans' views about immigration finds that public attitudes toward immigration remain mostly positive overall, and support for expanding it is rising noticeably among Democrats and independents.
Immigration has been a key topic for President Trump since he arrived on the political scene. Yet many of his efforts, such as building a physical barrier across the border and opposing a path to citizenship for DACA immigrants, have failed to garner widespread support beyond his political base. But Trump may not be as concerned with getting majority support for his policies as he is in using the issue to energize his political base.
Trump's policies and rhetoric on the issue are likely accomplishing that goal but may also be serving to make people outside his base more positive toward immigration.
View complete question responses and trends (PDF download).
Learn more about how the Gallup Poll Social Series works.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/313106/americans-not-less-immigration-first-time.aspx#methodology__body
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[Coldgrip]

Of course we need more immigration, especially illegal aliens. That'll show the evil cis-hetero-white-racist-nazi-christian-misogynistic MALES who's really in charge.

After all, who's going to mow our grass or make our iPhones or operate taco trucks? Checkmate Tumptards!

 

[stupidpieceofshit]

"We need more immigrants to push us out of entry level jobs and lower the cost of labor in skilled jobs so our CEOs can have even more money, and cause even more stress in the few social safety nets we do have" - what every one really means when they say they want more immigration.

I mean I don't blame people for wanting to come to the US, and in theory immigration can be a good thing (and in theory a bad thing too), its just right now immigration only casues more problems for the poor, working, and middle classes when it comes to jobs and funds for social services.

 

[Ash Gassem]

They've tricked the libtards into thinking that you absolutely need ethnic minorities in order to have ethnic food in your country.

They don't actually believe that. It's simply the only available argument in favor of mass immigration that isn't flatly about replacing the current population, achieving electoral victory, or maintaining low wages. 100% of people in favor of mass immigration are for one or more of these latter 3 objectives, and literally the only thing they can come up with to not sound like the sociopaths they are is that we somehow need millions of foreigners from third world nations to maintain our level of culinary diversity.

 

[murdered meat bag]

the poll was taken during the 2020 black lives matter protests, rioting. anyone remember what one of the white/asian democrat counterpoints to Trump's 2016 MAGA immigration policy was?

"you need immigrants to do the jobs black people are too lazy for"

long term, immigration will hurt whites but in the short run, it's to displace american blacks. you can see the increase in hispanics and decreases in blacks living in Chicago, LA, NYC.

 

[Liber Pater]

I wonder how long this will last? American politics is in a very high energy transitional stage right now, and that makes long-term trends somewhat difficult to extrapolate from present data.

 

[Haramburger]

Uh-huh. Suuuuuuure they do Mohamed.

Hey, @snailslime ; the article author is LITERALLY a Mohamed.
I don't normally care about tophats or stickers in general but this one made me laugh.

 

[registered 2 hide avatars]

Almost every policy that Trump opposed has gained support since his election and vice versa, this is just a result of the fucked up mass polarization happening in the country. There's an article in slatestarcodex about this if I remember correctly.

 

[Duke Nukem]

I'd rather have immigrants who want to come to America to make a better life for themselves than the social justice warriors we have now.

I have a special deal for the commie leftards, we increase immigration, but we deport all the SJWs to China, strip them of their citizenship, and refuse to let them come back under any circumstances.

And we only allow female immigrants so that local incels can finally get wives. There, I solved several things at once.

 

[MrJokerRager]

Almost every policy that Trump opposed has gained support since his election and vice versa, this is just a result of the fucked up mass polarization happening in the country. There's an article in slatestarcodex about this if I remember correctly.

That is every presidency usually otherwise what is the point of an opposition party. There was a good scene in House of Cards about this. Gun rights gained a lot of ground under Obama compared to Trump because there was an incentive of they gonna take our guns. Whereas under Trump, gun activism has been a fraction during the Obama era because Trump will definitely veto an AWB unless he wants to lose 2020 for sure.

But the Democrats have done something different, they are willing to allow iconoclasm and destruction of their very own culture to own the Orange Man, which is very disturbing and will lead to heavy consequences down the road.

 

[Wilhelm Bittrich]

Gallup polls? Hm?

 

[Sneed's Feed And Seed]

Of course we want more immigration! Moving targets are more fun to hit!

 

[OnMoTi]

Gallup polls? Hm?
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An even funnier one;

That's right. Most Americans think at least 20% of the US population is gay.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/259571/americans-greatly-overestimate-gay-population.aspx (archive)

 

[Ledian]

I'm fine with immigration so long as it's done through legal means, not hopping the goddamn border then abusing the country's welfare systems for your own benefit.
I always despise how people take being against illegal immigration as being against all immigration when I'm sure most conservatives would be be fine and dandy if people worked for their place here and didn't just steal jobs by working under the table.

 

[CWCchange]

LOL, the day Americans want more immigrants is the day Israel wants less shekels from America.

 

[Opinion Discarded]

I always despise how people take being against illegal immigration as being against all immigration when I'm sure most conservatives would be be fine and dandy if people worked for their place here and didn't just steal jobs by working under the table.

Legal immigrants depress wages the same as illegal ones. The H-1B pajeets decimating programming/IT jobs are all perfectly legal, as are the majority of unskilled migrant workers. Illegal immigration is a problem, but mass immigration is a much bigger one.

 

[Mepsi Pax]

In case you guys haven't seen this ploy before, lemme explain the specific reason this VERY LEGIT POLL is a piece of shit:

Of all these groups, whether decrease, increase, or remain the same, basically none of those polled actually know anything about year-to-year immigration numbers, demographics, costs, gov'mt subsidy... etc. Of those that might actually have some idea about our crazy immigration problems, whether by actual research or just living on the outskirts of a barrio (that didn't exist 5 years ago), you can bet all those people fall squarely into the "decrease" camp, with maybe the softest and gayest few who have yet to be fully displaced in "remain constant". So on top of being a very politically loaded bullshit poll that 99% of respondents aren't equipped to answer, the touted rise in favor of "increased" immigration is just fake sauce on the fake nothingburger - basically an increase in the shittiest of clueless shitlibs being extra contrary to OWN rethuglicans on this LEGIT poll.

 

[RodgerDodger]

I'm basically convinced that a lot of polls are just propaganda at this point.

They always have been. It’s just that the normies are finally waking up to that fact.

 

[Fek]

I wonder why politicians like immigration so much.

Maybe because it's a talking point for their election? Or the idea of cheap labor?

I think you spend enough time around here to know the main answer to that. Come on now.

• Import new slave castes to dodge paying wages competitive with the cost of living and relative wealth of your nation.
• Receive untold amounts of bribery-by-any-other-name for doing so by globohomo.
• Stay in power by giving your actual citizen's tax money out as gibs to pretend you're helping Pedro or Varun.
• By the time they're able to vote (or just live in a corrupt blue shithole and vote regardless), a staggering majority of the slave castes are now hooked on gibs with little way out of the situation. They keep you in power because they're indoctrinated (and/or too fucking stupid) to realize what's happening to them.

Really boiled down, but surely you know these things.

We don't need either. I'd rather SJWs move to the countries where the most immigrants come from and "fix" everything for them.

But since I have to dwell in reality:

"Mexico is the top origin country of the U.S. immigrant population. In 2017, 11.2 million immigrants living in the U.S. were from there, accounting for 25% of all U.S. immigrants. . . . Mexican lawful immigrants have the lowest naturalization rate overall. Language and personal barriers, lack of interest and financial barriers are among the top reasons for choosing not to naturalize cited by Mexican-born green card holders, according to a 2015 Pew Research Center survey."

"Lack of interest" in becoming a citizen = you should not be able to live in the US as a permanent resident.

Agreed wholeheartedly.

Remember when Spanish being placed on the labels for everything was a hot issue for all of 10 seconds? Remember not having to listen to the "ocho option" when you called a business about something? I remember..

 

[The Last Stand]

I think you spend enough time around here to know the main answer to that. Come on now.

• Import new slave castes to dodge paying wages competitive with the cost of living and relative wealth of your nation.
• Receive untold amounts of bribery-by-any-other-name for doing so by globohomo.
• Stay in power by giving your actual citizen's tax money out as gibs to pretend you're helping Pedro or Varun.
• By the time they're able to vote (or just live in a corrupt blue shithole and vote regardless), a staggering majority of the slave castes are now hooked on gibs with little way out of the situation. They keep you in power because they're indoctrinated (and/or too fucking stupid) to realize what's happening to them.

Really boiled down, but surely you know these things.

I was being sarcastic.

 

[whogoesthere]

In case you guys haven't seen this ploy before, lemme explain the specific reason this VERY LEGIT POLL is a piece of shit:

Of all these groups, whether decrease, increase, or remain the same, basically none of those polled actually know anything about year-to-year immigration numbers, demographics, costs, gov'mt subsidy... etc. Of those that might actually have some idea about our crazy immigration problems, whether by actual research or just living on the outskirts of a barrio (that didn't exist 5 years ago), you can bet all those people fall squarely into the "decrease" camp, with maybe the softest and gayest few who have yet to be fully displaced in "remain constant". So on top of being a very politically loaded bullshit poll that 99% of respondents aren't equipped to answer, the touted rise in favor of "increased" immigration is just fake sauce on the fake nothingburger - basically an increase in the shittiest of clueless shitlibs being extra contrary to OWN rethuglicans on this LEGIT poll.

Best way to get someone to outright call for a stop to all immigration is to stick them in a lower class dropping ground for immigrants. Few years living with them will turn any woke fuck into a card carrying nazi.

In the UK, we have hotspots for immigrants to be dumped, and those places turn from red to blue in a blink of an eye.

Its why immigration views tend to follow class lines, because they dump them in the low income areas and its the working class who has to suffer them. Get some of these woke fucks to have their kids raped and beaten by pakistanis and see how quickly they change their mind.