| ▲ | oa335 2 days ago | |
> In 60% of polling this issue, Gallup has found that the support for increasing immigration has never exceeded 34%, and was under 10% from 1965-2000. From 2016 until now, Gallup polling has found that over 50% of the country supported increasing immigration or keeping it at the same levels. In 2024 (height of anti immigrant sentiment in Gallup polls) only 47% supported “ Deporting all immigrants who are living in the United States illegally back to their home country”, eroding to 38% in 2025. https://news.gallup.com/poll/692522/surge-concern-immigratio... Anyone who purports to believe in the primacy of popular will should raise an eyebrow at the discordance between popular opinions and the political discourse surrounding immigration - unless of course their appeals to populism are merely fig leaf rationalizations? | ||
| ▲ | rayiner a day ago | parent [-] | |
> From 2016 until now, Gallup polling has found that over 50% of the country supported increasing immigration or keeping it at the same levels. The factual trend over that period has been ever-escalating immigration levels. So it does not make sense to lump the people who support keeping immigration at the same level along with the folks who support increasing it. | ||