The other 'Trump Effect': New polling finds Americans are becoming more pro-immigrant

[applegrove]

The other 'Trump Effect': New polling finds Americans are becoming more pro-immigrant

Jul 01, 2020 4:05pm Eastern Daylight Time by Gabe Ortiz, Daily Kos Staff

https://m.dailykos.com/stories/1957522

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New polling from Gallup finds that 34% of Americans want to see more immigrants welcomed to the U.S., “the highest support for expanding immigration Gallup has found in its trend since 1965,” the organization said. “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.”

We’ve talked about the “Trump Effect,” or how the impeached president has influenced racists to be more openly racist in public. But then there’s another Trump Effect: as he has also spent years pushing horrible anti-immigrant policy after horrible anti-immigrant policy, Americans are viewing immigration more and more favorably—and in record numbers, the poll finds. 

“Nearly 8 in ten (77%) Americans think immigration is a good thing for their country,” Gallup found, including 89% of Democrats, 78% of Independents, and 62% of Republicans. Advocacy group America’s Voice noted “Gallup has asked that question 19 times previously, going back to 2001. The current 77% support for ‘immigration is a good thing’ is the highest ever recorded; the 19% support for ‘bad thing’ is tied for the lowest ever; and the 58-point margin between ‘good thing’ and ‘bad thing’ is the greatest differential Gallup has ever recorded.”

Gallup notes the polling was conducted before the administration announced yet another round of attacks on the legal immigration system, and before the Supreme Court’s decision on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). More recent polling has similarly found overwhelming majority support for allowing the program’s beneficiaries to stay, including 95% of Democrats, 84% of independents, and 73% of Republicans. Overall, 85% of Americans say DACA recipients’ home is here.  

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[applegrove]

1. Dying cities in the mid west need multi-ethnic populations to keep their kids from

moving to bigger cities that are.

[brewens]

2. I said all along it was gonna be a shell game anyway. The PTB were going to get their cheap

labor one way or another. That was not going to be unemployed people that don't want to do that work, of which many we have. The farm bosses and wealthy people that want domestic help wouldn't have them working for them anyway. If the blocked people coming in and bragged about it, they would find a way to make more of them legal somehow somewhere. They are probably just screwing good people willing to bust their ass for us for no reason.