CV NEWS FEED // A Monmouth University poll released Monday showed that a significant majority of voters consider “illegal immigration” to be a “very serious problem” – an increase of 15 points from five years ago.
The new poll found that 61% of voters surveyed identified the surge of migrants illegally pouring across the nation’s southern border as a “very serious problem.”
By comparison, a Monmouth poll from 2019, when Donald Trump was president, found the proportion of respondents “serious[ly]” concerned about illegal immigration to be only 46%.
The percentage was a similar 45% in 2015 when Barack Obama was in the White House.
The 2024 poll also reported that an additional 23% of voters viewed illegal immigration as a “somewhat serious” problem. When combined with the 61% who indicated that it was “very serious,” this makes for a total of 84% of respondents who believe the border crisis is a serious matter.
Monmouth also indicated in a press release: “A majority of Americans support building a border wall for the first time since Monmouth started asking this question in 2015.” The poll reported the exact percentage as 53%.
The New Jersey university also noted that “[n]early half” of respondents said the widely panned bipartisan border bill “that was blocked in the U.S. Senate earlier this month is not tough enough on illegal immigration.”
Furthermore, the poll found that 53% of Republican respondents believe “illegal immigrants take away desirable jobs” from American workers. In the 2015 Monmouth poll, the proportion of Republicans who gave the same answer to that question was only 39%.
Breitbart noted that this “14 percent jump shows a fast-growing concern about migration’s pocketbook damage.”
“Many studies and business reports show that migration allows employers to cut Americans’ wages and transfer the wealth to investors and Wall Street,” Breitbart continued. “Migrants gain a much smaller share of that transferred wealth as low wages.”
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Observers pointed out that the poll’s findings might spell trouble for President Joe Biden’s re-election chances this November.
Monmouth University Polling Institute Director Patrick Murray stated: “Illegal immigration has taken center stage as a defining issue this presidential election year.”
Murray referenced another Monmouth poll released this month, which “found [immigration] to be Biden’s weakest policy area, including among his fellow Democrats.”
The February 2024 poll found that 71% of respondents disapproved of “how Joe Biden has handled” immigration.
In fact, for all of the policy areas in the poll, more respondents disapproved of Biden’s performance than approved of it.
In the same poll, 49% percent of respondents disapproved of Biden’s performance on “jobs and unemployment,” 53% disapproved of his performance on “transportation and energy infrastructure,” 63% on “inflation,” 53% on “climate change,” and 65% on “foreign policy.”
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According to a chorus of recent polls, the incumbent Democratic candidate is a historically unpopular president. An NBC poll from late last month showed Biden trailing his likely Republican opponent, former President Trump, by five percentage points.
CatholicVote reported that, according to the poll,
Trump is leading among independent voters by nearly 20 percentage points. The poll also shows him leading in the Hispanic vote – a feat unheard of for a Republican presidential candidate.
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Furthermore, 60% of the NBC poll’s respondents disapproved of Biden’s performance as president. Only 37% expressed their approval.
“Other recent polls have shown the president’s approval rating to be as low as 33%,” CatholicVote added.
No president in recent memory has won re-election after posting an early election year approval rating in the 30s.
