69% of Americans want the border secured [OT: Americans are split on feelings toward border ...]

The Hill ^ | 1/3/2019 | Julia Manchester

[NobleFree]

Americans are split on their feelings toward building a wall along the U.S.–Mexico border, according to a new Hill-HarrisX survey.

Thirty-four percent said a border wall was "the best path for making America safer at its borders," while 31 percent said it was "totally unnecessary and not worth the expense."

Thirty-five percent of respondents said they believed that Americans need border security, but there are "better options" for securing the border.

The survey comes as the partial government shutdown enters its 13th day. The shutdown began Dec. 22 over an impasse between lawmakers and the White House over President Trump's demand for billions of dollars in border wall funding.

Trump has shown no indication of letting up on his demands for $5 billion for a border wall, telling members of his Cabinet on Wednesday that the U.S. "needs a physical barrier."

Meanwhile, Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) reaffirmed in an interview that Democrats plan to give Trump "nothing for the wall."

"What we've seen is that people have turned against a wall now that they associate [it] with Donald Trump, and they see it as symbolic for what they view as his animus toward immigrants," Emily Ekins, polling director at the Cato Institute, told Hill.TV's Joe Concha on "What America's Thinking."

"Now people who support the president would say that's not what this is about, this is just about border security," she continued.

The latest Hill-HarrisX survey was conducted Dec. 30 through 31 and is part of an ongoing project of The Hill's new online TV division, Hill.TV, and the HarrisX polling company that asks 1,000 registered voters a day about issues of public policy and current events. The latest poll has a sampling margin of error of 3.1 percentage points.

[FES0844]

I wish we had yellow vested protesters in every state! Build the wall!

[DJ Taylor]

[hal ogen]

I guess that 31% of the respondents despise the idea of sovereignty and are mainly gibmedats who want free stuff from hard-woerking, productive, law-abiding American Citizens. They should all be exiled.

[SandRat]

HMM,,, LAST TIME I CHECKED,,, 65 PERCENT, IS A MAJORITY. Build THE WALL.

[cmj328]

Thirty-five percent of respondents said they believed that Americans need border security, but there are "better options" for securing the border.

These people are living in lalaland.

[jmaroneps37]

The first survey showing the American public now blames Congress (Democrats) more than Trump for shutdown was referenced in 538.com so this is as natural as day following night. I don’t believe an honest sample said the wall is a waste of money.

[KarlInOhio]

Thirty-five percent of respondents said they believed that Americans need border security, but there are "better options" for securing the border.

But I realize that automated chainguns, though more effective, don't look good on international television so I have to fall back to the wall.

[NobleFree]

The 35% have been snowed by the con men who support any and every form of "border security" that doesn't actually secure the border.

[Jackson Brown]

These 31% are likely

1. Trump haters
2. Not aware of the HUGE costs in money and safety caused.
3. They likely have bought in to a ‘’wall is immoral and evil’’ ... but could never explain why ... or ... how border security can be accomplished without a ‘’barrier’’.

[NobleFree]

See also https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3717612/posts: “Roughly 80% of all voters say U.S. needs secure borders, including 68% of Democrats: Harvard poll”

[bray]

It is a landslide majority that the Communist Media paints as divided.

[Grundon]

Bump. There are quite a few Democrats in Red districts in the House that may end up going for wall funding if a good bill is presented. This could be very close. BTW, if a wall passes because Democrats crossed party lines to vote for it, then the Dem Party will just about implode!