According to Gallup Immigration is the most important issue for voters

[ripcord]

https://news.gallup.com/poll/611135/immigration-surges-top-important-problem-list.aspx

First time since 2019.

[mucifer]

1. I hope that's not true Hate is powerful

[brooklynite]

13. Concern about immigration doesn't constitute "hate"

Plenty of people can be unhappy with uncontrolled entry of migrants and a growing homeless situation in large population centers.

[Elessar Zappa]

2. If Dems are smart, which they are,

they will hammer home how it’s the Republicans who are stopping immigration policies from being passed.

[CousinIT]

6. The goddamned media is certainly no help.

As per usual they only tell HALF the story on this: "Immigration is on voters minds! It's a problem!"

But they don't bother telling viewers and readers WHY it's on everybody's mind and WHY it isn't dealt with - REPUBLICAN propaganda and obstruction of that border security bill.

Same on the economy: "INFLATION IS TERRIBLE!" -- but they LEAVE OUT the part about corporate profits being massively and historically high, price gouging and greedflation. It's rarely mentioned.

Same on Biden's age: "BIDEN'S AGE IS A PROBLEM!" But they leave out why it's considered a problem (Republican propaganda, which the media parrots 24x7x365) and they leave out how Trump slurs his words, doesn't know where he is, can't recognize his ex-wife, and is a babbling incoherent orange ape.

The US media tells only HALF of the story on any issue - the half their corporate overlords will allow them to tell. Hosts who tell too much truth are shitcanned: Medhi Hassan, Keith Olbermann, and others.

[CousinIT]

3. THIS is why TrumPutin/MAGAt and Johnson will NEVER pass border security legislation

They want to scream "BORDER! BORDER! BORDER!" until November. Every time one gets in front of a microphone and EVERY ad I've seen is about that: "JOE BIDEN ALLOWS OPEN BORDERS!"

It's typically Republican and really, it's all they've got.

1. Create a problem
2. Blame Democrats
3. Democrats craft legislation to solve the problem
4. GOP/MAGA obstructs the legislation
5. GOP/MAGA blames Democrats for GOP obstruction and the problem not being solved

Lather, rinse, repeat ad infinitum.

[betsuni]

4. Exactly!

[honest.abe]

5. This is a tough one for us.

We care about humans whether or not they are Americans. Securing the border and caring about all people can be difficult to pull off but we have to figure out how to do it and convince the majority of voters this is the right thing to do.

[Think. Again.]

7. Why doesn't the headline clarify...

...that there's a vast difference in party affiliation?

From the article:

Currently, 57% of Republicans, up from 37% in January, say immigration is the top problem. Independents show a modest uptick, from 16% in January to 22% now, while there has been no meaningful change among Democrats (9% in January and 10% in February).

[TexasDem69]

12. Doesn't matter what Democrats

Or even Republicans think. Independents are what matters

[Think. Again.]

15. From what I've read, independents are roughly equal red/blue...

...with only about 10% of them uncertain, so the numbers are pretty much the same... It's far more of the right-leaning voters that feel immigration is an important issue.

Let's face it, we're not gong to win those people hardcore righties over, so I don't think we should focus the majority of the campaign on immigration. It's a non-issue to those who we should focus on -the possible NON-voters.

[Polybius]

23. Count me in that 10% n/t

[Think. Again.]

25. I'm sorry you've suffered due to immigration...

...I tend to give more credit to the strength that building our nation from scratch with immigrants, as we done since day one, gives us through our diversity.

[Polybius]

26. I live in NYC

Eric Adams has told me that I've suffered.

[brush]

8. Right-leaning Gallup will always find what wingers want is all that matters...

I'm betting that women and many men feel that snatching abortion rights away from women, and now this anti-mom embryo decision compounding that in Alabama on top of it, is still the most important, top-of-mind issue.

Gloss over it if you want repugs, but it'll still bite you in the ass come Nov.

[bdamomma]

18. I hope it

bites more than ass.

[Celerity]

9. Comparing Crime Rates Between Undocumented Immigrants, Legal Immigrants, and Native-born US Citizens in Texas

https://www.ojp.gov/library/publications/comparing-crime-rates-between-undocumented-immigrants-legal-immigrants-and

Abstract

The study found that undocumented immigrants had substantially lower crime rates than native-born citizens and legal immigrants across a range of felony offenses. Relative to undocumented immigrants, U.S.-born citizens are over 2 times more likely to be arrested for violent crimes, 2.5 times more likely to be arrested for drug crimes, and over 4 times more likely to be arrested for property crimes.

In addition, the proportion of arrests involving undocumented immigrants in Texas was relatively stable or decreasing over this period. The differences between U.S.-born citizens and undocumented immigrants are robust to using alternative estimates of the broader undocumented population, alternate classifications of those counted as “undocumented” at arrest and substituting misdemeanors or convictions as measures of crime. (publisher abstract modified)

[ripcord]

10. The problem is that isnt what people are hearing

They are hearing about the Georgia college student who was killed and mutilated by someone from Venezuela who crossed the border illegally. They are also hearing that if it weren't for New Yorks sanctuary policies he would have been deported before he killed.

[Celerity]

11. so spread the word, I do all the time

[TexasDem69]

14. How do you explain to someone

That a crime committed by someone who entered the country illegally is the same as a crime by a citizen of the U.S.? That’s a real tough needle to thread. The Georgia case is an example.

[Think. Again.]

16. You won't succeed in winning over a rightwing voter, no matter what your argument is.

[Celerity]

20. I do not know more than a handful of RW American voters. They are not the audience to which I speak.

MAGAts can fuck right off. I have none in my family and close to none in my friends list, at least that I am aware of.

I ruthlessly cull any Trump supporters from my life. I have that luxury as I have lived in Sweden since 2018. I refuse to deal with white nationalist christofash septic bellends.

[Think. Again.]

22. excellent!...

...but your post seem to imply that 'a needle has to be threaded' in order to explain to someone that immigrants post no more threat than citizens, who would you have to explain that to if not a rightwinger?

Democrats have very little concern about immigration, as mentioned in the OP article.

[Celerity]

24. See post 17. I am not trying to thread a needle. I just post facts that perhaps can come in handy

for some. I also do see some Dems in my group who have been misinformed by RW programming.

[Celerity]

17. That is not what I am positing.

a crime committed by someone who entered the country illegally is the same as a crime by a citizen

I never claimed that. I am talking the rates.

[bdamomma]

19. Immigration

there's a bill for it and Johnson is doing what Putin's puppet asked for. This is not about Joe Biden, this is the about the American people. Just what Joe said last night on Seth Meyers.

[All Mixed Up]

21. And yet another poll shows extremism as the top concern for voters.

[Demsrule86]

27. That is bullshit.