Posted on 08/21/2022 11:19:21 AM PDT by george76
A majority of Americans believe the ongoing crisis at the border represents some level of “invasion,” according to a new NPR/Ipsos poll.
Researchers surveyed 1,116 adults from across the United States on July 28-29 regarding their views on the ongoing immigration crisis at the border and how it relates to the presence of illegal drugs in the U.S. The poll has a confidence interval of 5.1 percentage points.
In response to the statement that the situation at the southern border represented an “invasion,” a majority of respondents responded affirmatively, with 28% answering that the statement is “completely true” and 25% saying it is “somewhat true.”
Half of respondents also said that the border crisis was at least somewhat the cause of overdoses and deaths from illegal drugs in the country. Twenty-two percent of respondents said that it is “completely true” that “migrants bringing fentanyl and other illegal drugs over the southern border are responsible for the increase in drug overdoses and deaths in the U.S.” Another 28% said the statement was “somewhat true.”
The poll also asked respondents if they would describe the U.S. approach to immigration as an “open border policy.” The responses broke down as follows: 21% answered “completely true,” 21% answered “somewhat true,” 25% answered “completely false,” and 33% answered “don’t know.”
The poll comes as tensions between red-state governors and the Biden administration continue to escalate over the flood of illegal immigrants entering the United States. The U.S. Border Patrol is arresting record numbers of migrants coming across the southern border. So far this fiscal year, which ends in October, officials have made about 1.82 million arrests — a record.
The new record tops the previous one set during the 2021 fiscal year at about 1.66 million arrests.
In response to President Joe Biden’s handling of the border, Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) launched a relocation program earlier this year and has bused hundreds of migrants to Washington, D.C., and has recently started busing migrants to New York as well. The program is part of Abbott’s Operation Lone Star, a state initiative to secure the border that has failed where it contradicts federal law.
One such failure took place at a border crossing in Texas on Wednesday. Video showed Border Patrol agents unlocking a gate and letting in around two dozen migrants after Texas national guardsmen had padlocked gate in an attempt to keep the migrants back. Border Patrol is required to process migrants arrested in the U.S., however, and let them through to take them into custody
Doesn’t matter. They’ve got until November. What happens in January will scare them?
Gee. Sounds like a winning campaign issue.
Putting Rats in charge of anything more consequential than dog catcher invites chaos.
Well that’s informative. 33% have no clue. We know who they are.
(crickets)
An invasion of murderers, drug dealers, human traffickers, terrorists, diseases, and lowlifes.
Is this a great country or what? What’s left of it.
So, Americans, your replacements are arriving by the tens of thousands and you’d better get ready to fund them with cops, jails, drug gang police battles, full medical coverage, dental care, language tutors and teachers in schools, housing and other entitlements in full. Many will also displace Americans for unskilled jobs.
And get ready for “Presione Dos Para Ingles” on all the phones.
But keep voting Dem or you may miss all this.
All by design, Comrade. All. By. Design.
We may have 10 million guns while the leftists don't know which bathroom to use, but we can't even live without paying the leftists who trash us for the right to sit on our tails and be entertained by them. So far all of the action has come from their side.
And the military and National Guard that are supposed to protect America??????
Mr. Trump. Please listen.
This is not about a “travel ban”.
It is an INVASION.
Illegal immigration is INVASION!
The federal government is MANDATED by the Constitution to stop INVASION (U.S. Const., Art. IV, Sec. 4).
What the Biden/Obama administration is doing now can easily be called treason because among those illegal immigrants are enemies of America that are being given aid and comfort by this corrupt administration.
Political polls have been cr@p for 30 years. Now, they’re purely manipulation of the masses and cover for the subsequent voter fraud.
If you showed these people side by side at an AIRPORT in the United States doing the same as they are doing at the southern border people would be screaming for the head of the TSA on a platter. Picture standing in line to re-enter the country with TSA agents. Picture people just running right past the customs and border patrol while you are being detained for your passport documentation and questioning. They are laughing their hind ends off at you while you are being detained and they enter the country in the fraud express lane with Biden agents. It is no different. There is a mass invasion and the US government is partnering with the criminal invaders. Biden and his ilk are complacent in the takeover of our country.
Republican leaders: Crickets
5 million and counting.
And if Pres Trump is re-elected, how many are going to be willing to make the hard( not hard for me) to support deporting as many as possible. While remembering that if half of the 10,000,000 or more that will come, are women who will pop out a US citizen or two?
I’m thinking that during his second term, with the court shaping up the way it was, Pres Trump was looking at finally getting Birthright Citizenship defined and reigned in, once and for all.
A Constitutional interpretation clearly states that the children of aliens will not be granted citizenship. The lottery ticket the 3rd world comes here for.
Here is the original quote, from Senator Jacob Howard. Referring to the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment, he says:
This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons.
Get rid of Birthright citizenship, make eVerify law of the land, and start taxing remittances….invasion stops in 5 minutes.
Trump agrees with you completely.
Sounds good
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