Majority of Americans Want Southern Wall to Keep Out Illegals: CBS Poll

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A new poll, post-President Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech, finds that most Americans do indeed want a wall on the southern border to keep out illegals.

In January, Trump spoke strongly of his will to see a wall built:

And then, as now, it seems the majority of Americans agreed with Trump.

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Listen to Democrats, though, and it’s as if all of America wants not only amnesty for those already here illegally, but also wide open borders, so pretty much anyone and everyone — and anyone and everyone’s sister and brother — can cross and stay.

The poll, it should be noted, was conducted for CBS News — a media outlet not exactly known for a conservative tilt.

Breitbart has more:

The majority of Americans want a wall along the southern border to protect the United States and American workers from illegal aliens pouring into the country.
Following President Trump’s “State of the Union” (SOTU) address wherein he demanded at least $25 billion from the Republican-controlled Congress to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, nearly 60 percent of Americans said they supported the plan.

The post-SOTU CBS News poll revealed that 59 percent of Americans said they supported “building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.” Only 41 percent of Americans said they opposed the border wall, but were not given other options in the poll for what they would like to see done about securing the country’s southern border.

The support for Trump’s border wall is just the latest development in Americans’ vast support for the president’s plan to transform the current legal immigration — whereby more than 70 percent of legal immigrants arrive in the U.S. for no other reason than to reunify with foreign relatives — into one based on merit, skills, and English proficiency.

In his SOTU address, Trump said it was time for the Republican-controlled Congress to back a merit-based legal immigration system that reduces legal immigration levels in order to raise the wages of American workers and increase the quality of life for the country’s working and middle class.

Trump said:

The third pillar ends the visa lottery — a program that randomly hands out green cards without any regard for skill, merit, or the safety of our people. It is time to begin moving towards a merit-based immigration system — one that admits people who are skilled, who want to work, who will contribute to our society, and who will love and respect our country. [Emphasis added]

As Breitbart News reported, a Harvard-Harris poll found that nearly 80 percent of Americans said they believe “immigration priority for those coming to the U.S. should be based on a person’s ability to contribute to America as measured by their education and skills—and not based on a person having relatives in the U.S.”

Currently, the legal immigration system to the U.S. prioritizes foreign nationals who have foreign relatives already living in the country. This process is commonly referred to as “chain migration.” As Breitbart News reported, chain migration has imported more than nine million foreign nationals to the U.S. since 2005 and is on track to bring at least eight million new foreign voters to the U.S. in the next two decades.

Likewise, as Breitbart News reported, black Americans are the most likely to support reducing legal immigration levels from the current mass immigration system that imports more than one million mostly low-skilled foreign nationals every year.

When asked, “In your opinion, about how many legal immigrants should be admitted to the U.S. each year,” 48 percent of black Americans said they would like to see between one and 250,000 legal immigrants brought to the U.S. a year.

Black Americans have been disproportionately impacted by mass immigration to the U.S., researchers say, as they were replaced by Hispanics in 2004 as the largest minority group in the country.

Every year the U.S. admits more than 1.5 million foreign nationals, with the vast majority deriving from family-based chain migration, whereby newly naturalized citizens can bring an unlimited number of foreign relatives to the U.S. In 2016, the legal and illegal immigrant population reached a record high of 44 million. By 2023, the Center for Immigration Studies estimates that the legal and illegal immigrant population of the U.S. will make up nearly 15 percent of the entire U.S. population.

Mass immigration has come at the expense of America’s working and middle class, which has suffered from poor job growth, stagnant wages, and increased public costs to offset the importation of millions of low-skilled foreign nationals.

Four million young Americans enter the workforce every year, but their job opportunities are further diminished as the U.S. imports roughly two new foreign workers for every four American workers who enter the workforce. Even though researchers say 30 percent of the workforce could lose their jobs due to automation by 2030, the U.S. has not stopped importing more than a million foreign nationals every year.

For blue-collar American workers, mass immigration has not only kept wages down but in many cases decreased wages, as Breitbart News reported. Meanwhile, the U.S. continues importing more foreign nationals with whom working-class Americans are forced to compete. In 2016, the U.S. brought in about 1.8 million mostly low-skilled immigrants.

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Thorsten
Thorsten
6 years ago

Build a beautiful BIG wall 🙂

… take an example of brave Israel -> nearly ZEREO iSSlamic suicide attacks since they have built it like in Egypt to “Palestine”, Mexico to hinder Guatemala, …) https://sunnah.com/bukhari/56/33-35 https://quran.com/9/111

Trump can't ban islam
Trump can't ban islam
6 years ago

No wall can stop islam. Muslims are LEGAL immigrants, Muslims are shiped to USA by airplanes. Muslims HAVE RIGHTS, they CAN’T BE deported.
Muslim population in USA
2001: 0,9%
2010: 2,6%
2018: 4,1%…… and GROWING!

Thorsten
Thorsten
6 years ago

… Muslims are (ever) LEGAL immigrants

… to Superior 8/39, 9/33, quran.com/48/1-28 allah and ‘… the disbelievers are EVER to you (Muslims) a clear enemy.’ https://quran.com/4/100-101

Achmed Mohammedan
Achmed Mohammedan
6 years ago

Silly little one. How does 3.2 million, in a nation of 330 million (plus) constitute 4.1%? Why do you always spout bald faced lies?

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AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
6 years ago

2018: 17-20%…… of PRISON population and GROWING!

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762x51FMJ
762x51FMJ
6 years ago

The only thing that Islam has to fear is humans who can think for themselves.

edD
ed
6 years ago

The wall can keep the goats and the sheep out. No goats/no sheep……..no mozzlem terr0rists to molest them.

SNOWDIN
SNOWDIN
6 years ago

Maybe a wall cannot keep you Goat/ Donkey F**kers, aka pathetic muhhamed the Satanic faggot child rapist worshipper sand nicars camel jockey raghead mudscum mudslime of the earth out but bullets will keep you from coming over. And if it comes to that there will be an all out war. Americans will not put up with your shite like they do in europe. Bring it on you pathetic POS. The only good mudscum. mudslime is one that has taken a dirt nap. ,

Buck
Buck
6 years ago

The American people can. Buck a Christian 100% disabled Vietnam veteran ??⚔?? right wing republican life time member NRA and friend to Israelcomment image

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AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
6 years ago

Keep Out Illegals and their ‘Children’ !!!

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Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

Are they sure a mine field wouldn’t be as effective and more cost effective?

MrLogical
MrLogical
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

I’ve often thought the same.
Or an irradiated ‘death’ zone as Goldwater once suggested.
Lots of ways to deter illegal entry – many of them would be better than any wall.
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Poppey
Poppey
6 years ago

You’re all undergoing the same UN demanded process that European people are faced with, and when the executive are doing it, how many bullets do you have ?

All of us are having our money filched so that the feckless, savage and uneducated can come in and take over our towns after they’ve destroyed our wealth and prospects by rioting and welfare dependency {especially for our young}. The French, Belgians and Swedes all have their armed forces on the streets now, for the same reasons too. Even Britain has dispersed SAS squads ready for “situations”. {it’s this constant deployment on top of Libya, Afghanistan Iraq and Syria that’s affecting their moral}. They only are around 400 strong.

Automation is going to be the breaker item, look at it this way, with fewer and fewer people in work paying their National Insurance contributions {towards others public pensions} who is going to be left to make up the missing amount – the machines ? Republican voting middle managers, Good luck with that.

Just what “work” will be available for say 25 or 30 million unskilled new “Americans” from Latin America, Africa and the near and middle East to do after 2028 ? In Europe the same questions exist and remain unanswered.
All those people are going to demand good pensions when they want to retire, they’ll get older too, where’s the money to come from when they’ve saved little or nothing ?

How many “corner shops” selling “food and wine”, car wash operations and jobbing casual gardeners etc does America and Western Europe need ? Any ideas ?

If you think things are bad now, just wait.

AlgorithmicAnalystD
AlgorithmicAnalyst
6 years ago

A physical wall is necessary, because if the left ever gets back in power, they will try to undo all the policies put in place by Trump. It is harder to take down a physical wall, and more visibly obvious, than to just make some new policy declarations.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
6 years ago

Agreed. The Great Wall of China was built to keep out the invasion of Vandal hordes, a threat that ended several centuries ago.

762x51FMJ
762x51FMJ
6 years ago

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wall poster
wall poster
6 years ago

even better than a wall…..long buildings with basements that are a heat relief in the summer…….it could house the enforcement people ……and it could be staggered fence , then a building

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
6 years ago

If illegals want in here so damn bad, why can they not see that we think the country is worth fighting to defend? And once they land here, the problems begin. They break the immigration laws to get here and once they do, it is a case of their ass being here and their heart remaining from where they came.

DACA = caca (Spanish slang for “sh*t.)

Buck
Buck
6 years ago

I always thought we the USA would pay for the wall. So let’s use the money we are giving other countries to pay for it. No DACA no illegal amenesty round them all up shipp them all out of the United States . Do what needs to be done. Don’t fool around get it done Buck a Christian 100% disabled Vietnam veteran ??⚔?? right wing republican life time member NRA and friend to Israel

Guy Matthew
Guy Matthew
6 years ago

Democraps only want to take bribes and kickbacks for providing cheap labor while ignoring the poverty in negro communities..comment image

Acecool
Acecool
5 years ago

Technology has come a long way. A steel wall with seismic meters for ground vibration tunneling, See-through x-Ray scanners for drug trafficking, night and day time vision camera drones, satellite surveillance and
coast guard radar.

Problem is, coastal boat migration has risen due to enforced border patrol, and travel as far out as 50 miles off the coast and as far north as Los Angele, carrying at least two dozen migrants at a time.

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